MEK4480 – Free surface flows

After completing the course you:

• know about theoretical models for multphase flow;
• will be able to describe and derive mathematical models for a class of selected free surface flow phenomena;
• will be able to describe some instabilities that are driven and inhibited by surface tension;
• will be able to describe bubble/droplet dynamics, film dynamics, capillary and wetting phenomena, fluid flows driven forces at the free surface.

Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

• MEK1100 – Vector Calculus
• MEK2200 – Continuum Mechanics
• MEK3230 – Fluid Mechanics

4 hours of lectures/exercises per week throughout the semester. Some teaching may be done in the laboratory.

The course may be taught in Norwegian if the lecturer and all students at the first lecture agree to it.

Upon the attendance of three or fewer students, the lecturer may, in conjunction with the Head of Teaching, change the course to self-study with supervision.

Final written exam or final oral exam, which counts 100 % towards the final grade.

The form of examination will be announced by the lecturer by 15 October/15 March for the autumn semester and the spring semester respectively.

This course has 1 mandatory assignment that must be approved before you can sit the final exam. Parts of it may involve project work. Some of these project works will be performed in the laboratory and others through numerical simulations through the use of computer rooms. These projects must also be presented as a short seminar to fellow students.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: MEK9480 – Free surface flows

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Withdrawal during an examination / Resitting an examination