Viscous Flows

The transport equations of mass, momentum and energy for flows with viscosity and heat conduction: the Navier-Stokes equations; molecular transport properties; boundary layer simplifications.

Incompressible laminar flows: exact solutions, self-similar and non-similar boundary layers; approximate (integral) methods for boundary layer computations.

Laminar flows with thermal and compressibility effects.

Stability of laminar flows; transition.

Turbulent flows: basic concepts, law of the wall and defect law, equilibrium boundary layers, introduction to turbulence modelling.