TME226 Mechanics of fluids, Study period 1 (7.5 hec)

TME226 Mechanics of fluids, Study period 1 (7.5hec)

Examiner: prof Lars Davidson

Lecturers: prof Lars Davidson and prof Magnus Ekh






  • Use Navier-Stokes as background on your lap-top, cell phone ...

  • Oil flow in a gearbox

  • Short Python introduction
  • Short Matlab introduction
  • Matlab commands in Python
  • Effect of panel shape of soccer ball on its flight characteristics: free-kicks, rotation, ball trajectories for free-kicks in worldcup in football


  • L. Davidson, 'An introduction to turbulence models' (Chapters 3 and 4 are relevant for this course)

  • Intro on Reynolds averaging (slides with movies, 18MB; best viewed with Acroread)

  • CFD-online: an online center for Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  • Notes on Computational Fluid Dynamics: General Principles




  • International MSc programme in Applied Mechanics
  • Lecture notes for old CFD course
  • MTF073 CFD course
  • Heat Transfer course
  • MTF270 Turbulence Modelling
  • Compressible flow
  • OpenFOAM
  • Fluid courses in the MSc programme
  • Tracks course: GPU-accelerated Computational Methods using Python and CUDA
  • PhD course in CFD







    Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences
    Division of Fluid Dynamice