Fluid Dynamics in Practice: Applications to Real-World Challenges
Discover how fluids and computational fluid dynamics shape our world with the University of Leeds.
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Fluid Dynamics in Practice: Applications to Real-World Challenges
Explore the underlying principles and applications of fluid dynamics
Fluid dynamics is essential to understanding the weather we experience and the air we breathe. This course connects maths and physics principles to real-world decisions by engineers and scientists.
You’ll learn how measuring, modelling, and predicting fluid dynamics keeps society safe and secure. Through interactive activities, you’ll grasp key principles of fluid movement and visualize datasets to inform decisions.
Explore the broad impact of fluid dynamics and discover exciting career opportunities. Join us at the University of Leeds to see how fluid dynamics drives industries and impacts our everyday lives.
Syllabus
Week 1
Understanding how fluids behave
Welcome to the course
This activity provides information on the course structure and learner journey over the next two weeks.
What is a fluid?
This activity takes you through the different properties of laminar and turbulent flow, and the underpinning mathematic principles that enable scientists to distinguish the two types.
Predicting fluid behaviour with the Bernoulli principle
In this activity, you explore the value of making predictions with a practical application, monitoring the velocity of aircraft.
Modelling turbulent flow
In this activity, you will explore what it means to model something as complex as fluid behaviour, considering practically how models are made and used for different scales of prediction.
Summary
This step consolidates Week 1, you will be signposted to opportunities at Leeds to study and highlights the link between Week 1 and the upcoming week.
Week 2
Fluid dynamics in people’s lives and environment
About Week 2
This activity introduces the concepts covered in Week 2 of the course.
Case Study 1: Airborne infection and monitoring air quality
In this case study, you’ll explore how the principles from Week 1 relate to your breath as a fluid. You’ll consider the factors that affect the movement of particles, how airborne disease spreads, and how it is mitigated.
Case Study 2: Modelling and predicting extreme weather
This case study examines how fluid dynamics is used to model extreme weather and how it underpins the formation, structure, movement and decay of cyclones as an example.
Summary
This section summarises the impact of fluid dynamics across different areas of people’s lives and the environment and provides options on how to advance your learning.
When would you like to start?
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Investigate the principles of fluid dynamics and their application to the real world
- Explain the impact of fluid dynamics across different areas of people’s lives and the environment
- Describe the role played by experimental, theoretical and computational models and how they inform decisions taken in the real world
- Explore the range of UG and PG degrees available at Leeds that offer further study of fluid dynamics
- Identify the career opportunities open to graduates who have studied fluid dynamics
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for maths, science and engineering students eager to deepen their knowledge of fluid dynamics and discover exciting degrees and industries where this expertise is applied.
Who will you learn with?
Duncan is Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering. He’s a member of the Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics (LIFD) and has the role of Digital Education Academic Lead for the EPS faculty
Who developed the course?
University of Leeds
As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.
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- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
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$349.99 for one year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
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