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| MECA0203-2 | Continuum Mechanics
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Pierre Dauby |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | Continuous media and stress tensors. Kinematics of continuous media (Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions, deformations). Thermomechanics of continuous media : conservation of mass, of linear and angular momentum, of energy, constitutive equations. Linear elasticity. Perfect fluid. Viscous fluid. Problems : flows round obstacles, thermo-convection, waves in continuous media, instabilities and self-organization, heat and momentum diffusion,... |
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| Course objective : | Presentation of the fundamental laws of irreversible thermodynamics and analysis of some applications. |
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| Prerequisites : | Students are assumed to be familiar with Newtonian Mechanics of particles and of systems of particles. |
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| Written notes : | A textbook is available (15 EUR). It must be ordered to the teacher before January 15th. |
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| Assessment : | Written exam on exercices. Oral exam on theory. |
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| Contacts : | Pierre C. DAUBY, Chargé de cours
Institut de Physique (local 2/57), Bât. B5a, Allée du 6 août 17, B-4000 Liège 1
Tel. : 04/366.23.57 - Email : PC.Dauby@ulg.ac.be
www : http://www.ulg.ac.be/thermoir/Milieux_Continus.htm |
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