Undergraduate Teaching

In 2005/06 we trialled audio-visual aids to students as part of a study by the Cambridge-M.I.T. Institute. Students found these aids very useful, particularly when a new concept was introduced. They now form part of the 2nd and 3rd year Fluid Mechanics courses.

For a description of the study and an example of the audio-visual animations, click here.

This course covers elementarly inviscid flow, elementary viscous flow, boundary layers, pipe flow, network analysis, turbulence, external flow, dimensional analysis, scaling, an introduction to compressible flow and convective heat transfer.

Students and supervisors at the University of Cambridge can find supplementary course materials at http://camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk.

In the first four lectures we explore the concepts of added mass, flutter, galloping and vortex shedding from moving structures. These can have catastrophic effects. In the next two lectures we cover internal flow and in the final two lectures we look at turbulent buffeting.

Students enrolled on this course can find handouts, further course materials and examples papers solutions at http://camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk

This course covers matrices and differential equations.