Kurs i konserveringprinsipp

For dei som alt har tatt kontinumsmekanikken (MAT252) vil kurset vere ei nyttig oppfrisking, og gi ei djupare forståing av viktige omgrep i væskemekanikk. Men MAT 252 er ikkje ein forutsetnad. Kurset vil bli gitt i løpet av 1-2 veker med 10-12 forelesningar. Tid og stad er enno ikkje bestemt. Kurset er ikkje vektallsgjevande, men alle som deltek vil få Pizza og Cola til avslutning. Her følger det Bill skriv om kuset:

CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES This series of lectures develops the equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. These principles belong in the toolbox of a scientist or engineer intent on analyzing environmental (or other!) problems. The overarching objective of these lectures is to provide the student with both the mathematics of these relations and some physical insight into the meaning of the terms in the equations. Issues to be considered include derivation of the conservation equations, expression of the equations in both integral and differential form, the importance of scale, and application to porous media. I am assuming that this will be for students who are either advanced undergrads or beginning graduate students who may benefit from seeing the conservation principles presented. I will do a little bit of work with vector analysis (dot products, normal vectors) and will also present the divergence and transport theorems.