Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Continuum Mechanics | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th, 10h Pr, 20h Mon. WS | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Pierre Dauby | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| 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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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course, the student will know and understand the fundamental laws of irreversible thermodynamics and will be able to use them in elementary applications. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Students are assumed to be familiar with Newtonian Mechanics of particles and of systems of particles. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The theoretical part of the course is presented as lectures (30h). (In case of a small audience, lectures can be replaced by discussions between the sudents and the instructor.) Exercices are also proposed to solve problems (10h). | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face teaching. | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A textbook is available. | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam on exercices. Oral exam on theory. | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course can take place in the first or in the second quadrimester, depending on the students whishes. | ||
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Contacts :
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| 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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