MECA0203-3 : Continuum Mechanics

Study Programmes 2016-2017

MECA0203-3

Continuum Mechanics

Duration :

30h Th, 10h Pr, 20h Mon. WS

Number of credits :

Master in mathematics (120 ECTS)		8
Master in mathematics (60 ECTS)		8

Lecturer :

Pierre Dauby

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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,...

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Students are assumed to be familiar with Newtonian Mechanics of particles and of systems of particles.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

The theoretical part of the course is presented as lectures (30h). In case of a small audience, lectures are replaced by a tutorship that consists in discussions between the sudents and the instructor. Exercices are also proposed to solve problems (10h).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face teaching.