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Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, Fluids, and Biological Systems

Course Type: 
PhD Course
Academic Year: 
2013-2014
Period: 
November-January
Duration: 
40 h
Description: 
  • Kinematics of deformable continua
  • Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion
  • The balance laws of continuum mechanics
  • Conservation of mass
  • Balance of linear and angular momentum
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Fluid dynamics: the Navier Stokes equations
  • Solid mechanics: nonlinear and linear elasticity
  • Selected topics from the mechanics of biological systems
Location: 
A-133
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