Classical problems of continuum mechanics (NMMO432)

Webpages of the lecture "Classical problems of continuum mechanics" (NMMO 401), summer semester 2019/2020.

Introduction

Contact

If you need something, please let me know. You can talk to me before/after the lecture, or we can fix an appointment via email (prusv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz).

Schedule

See the study information system SIS.

Consultations

I am ready to talk to you each Thursday after the lecture/tutorial. If you are not fine with that, please write me an email (prusv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz), and we shall meet at a time suitable for you. Whenever you think that you do not understand something, please speak up. I really mean it. The main objective of the lectures and tutorials is to explain things that can be hardly read from books, and to help you to understand the subject. Consultations are a natural part of the process of learning!

Do not forget to talk to your peers! If you think that the homework problems are too difficult, you can try to ask your friends for an advice. (Note that advice is something else that "copy and paste".)

Tutorials

If you want to get the credits for the tutorial you must:

• solve the homework problems on time,
• attend the tutorials.

If you are not happy with the rules, we can talk about alternatives. (For example, if you find the tutorial extremely boring, then we can make an agreement that you do not need to attend the tutorials provided that you will solve some extra problems.) I am ready to talk about such things only at the beginning of the semester. There is no chance to discuss these rules at the end of the semester. (Except, of course, of emergency situations such as a long illness.)

Homeworks

Please submit the homeworks on time. You can even scan your solution and send it to me via email (prusv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz). A PDF file with the homeworks is available here.

Exam

Organisation

The exam is an oral exam, and it consists of two parts.

• Presentation of a solution to a problem discussed in a scientific paper, see below. The objective is to show that you know what is the paper about, and what are the used methods and conclusions. In discussing the problem, you can use your own notes!
• During our conversation we will definitely encounter some notions from the field of continuum mechanics. You could be asked to explain some of the notions. I will only ask questions related to the given scientific paper. (For example, if the paper is focused on non-Newtonian fluids, we will talk about mechanics of fluids, and I will not ask questions on the theory of elasticity.)

Once you register yourself for the exam in the Study Information System, please let me know the title of the chosen scientific paper we shall discuss during the exam.

Scientific paper

You must be able, using your own notes, describe the problem that is being solved and its solution. You must show that you:

• understand the problem setting,
• understand the assumptions used in the solution (assumptions concerning boundary conditions, omission of some apparently small terms in the equations and so on),
• can explain in detail the whole solution process,
• can interpret the solution.

I do not want you to reproduce, unless stated otherwise, the numerical computations used in the papers. In this respect you can trust the authors.

List of problems/papers/sources

Will be specified at the end of semester. If you want to present a different paper (something you are interested in) it is not a problem. If it is the case, please ask me in advance to approve your choice.