NFYB21003U Fluid Mechanics
Qi-fan Wu, based on the lecture notes of Markus Jochum, Amin Doostmohamadi and Marta Mrozowska 2026
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
The material below is complementary to the lectures; it does not replace them. It does not replace textbooks either; instead, it should be seen as a bridge between the necessary simplifications and idiosyncrasies of classroom teaching and the overwhelming level of detail often found in textbooks.
Much of the present material is taken from Kundu's Fluid Mechanics (available online from the KU library); other sources are used and referenced whenever they appeared to be more helpful.
Introduction and Flow Kinematics
From Newton's Second Law to the Navier–Stokes Equations
Boundary Conditions and Gravity Waves
Internal Waves and Normal Modes in a Continuously Stratified Noninertial Fluid
Vorticity and Potential Vorticity
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Boundary Layers and Turbulent Mixing
Vorticity Budget on a Rotating Sphere
Vorticity Budget in the Frictional Boundary Layers
Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos