FSG3135 Micro Fluid Flows 4.5 credits
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Examples of processes and applications, chemical synthesis and analysis. Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, reversibility of low Re flow. Chaotic mixing, Liapunov exponents, Poincare maps. Surface tension, thermocapillary convection, wetting. Electrokinetics. Non-continuum effects. Micro fluidic devices.
Intended learning outcomes
The purpose of the course is to introduce concepts and methods that are relevant for understanding the flow of liquids, and its importance for mixing and chemical reactions in geometries of microscopic dimensions. The emphasis is on the microscopic fluid mechanics that is relevant for chemical synthesis and analysis, as well as for micro systems technology.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Prerequisites are general courses in mathematics, basic physics etc. This course should be of interest to graduate and last year students in fluid mechanics, chemistry, biotechnology, micro systems technology etc, so special care is taken to make the material accessible for students with a quite varied background.
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
Your own lecture notes, and copies of research papers. The lectures will cover scattered parts from the following books:
Micro Flows, G.E. Karniadakis, A. Beskok, Springer
Physicochemical Hydrodynamics, R.F. Probstein, Wiley
The kinematics of Mixing, J.M. Ottino, Cambridge Univ. Press
Elementary Fluid Dynamics, D.J. Acheson, Oxford, University Press
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- PRO1 - Project work, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TEN1 - Oral exam, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
PRO1 Project work 3,0 hp (P, F)
TEN1 Oral exam 1,5 hp (P, F)
Other requirements for final grade
Typically one project/seminar per group of two students.
In addition each project is assigned two 'opponents', that read the same material and prepare questions.
A short oral exam.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.