Lectures related to Gliding Paper Experiment

Explores sailboat keel design and its impact on performance, emphasizing the importance of reducing induced drag.

Covers a viscosity experiment using a falling sphere viscometer to determine fluid viscosity and understand the forces involved.

Sailboat Dynamics: Key Parameters and Drag Forces

Explores sailboat dynamics, key parameters, and drag forces in internally dominated flow.

Prandtl-Meyer Flows: Aero

Explores lift and drag forces, supersonic flow, and wave drag in Prandtl-Meyer flows.

Fluid Dynamics: Viscous Flow

Explores viscous fluid dynamics, including drag force, lift force, turbulence, viscosity, and the Magnus effect.

Thermal Instabilities: Rayleigh-Benard Analysis

Explores fluid instabilities, focusing on Rayleigh-Benard analysis and key concepts like buoyancy and temperature gradients.

Spring Clutches and Torque Limiters

Explains energy injection and reduction in spring clutches and torque limiters.

Frontwing Design: EPFL Racing Team

Explores the design of a frontwing for an electric race car to enhance performance through aerodynamics.

Bernoulli's Equation and Viscosity

Explores Bernoulli's equation, viscosity effects, shear stress, Poiseuille's law, Reynolds number, flow types, and lift/drag forces.

Drag on a Sphere and Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Covers the analysis of drag on a sphere in Newtonian fluid mechanics, focusing on key parameters and the significance of Reynolds number.

Fluid-Structure Interactions: Vortex Dynamics and Energy Harvesting

Delves into unsteady deformations of elastic structures driven by vortex shedding and their application in energy harvesting.

Boundary Layer: Blasius Solution

Explores the Blasius solution for boundary layer analysis and drag force calculations.

Boundary Layers: Recap and Effects on Drag and Lift

Covers the importance of boundary layers, viscosity effects on drag and lift.

Kolmogorov Turbulence Theory

Explores Kolmogorov's turbulence theory, covering Navier-Stokes equations, conservation laws, energy budgets, and experimental laws of turbulence.

Egg Drop Challenge - LUFTHANSEGG

Delves into the design process of a device to protect falling eggs.

Non-inertial Reference Frames & Constraints

Covers forces in non-inertial reference frames, constraints, and the use of pulleys and ropes.

Sedimentation: Blood Plasma Separation in Microfluidics

Covers the sedimentation speed of particles and cells, blood plasma separation, and size-selective trapping in microfluidics.

Drag on a Sphere and Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Explores drag on a sphere in Newtonian fluid mechanics, focusing on key parameters and the significance of the Reynolds number in determining the drag force.

Ascent to Space and Re-entry

Explores orbit insertion, losses during ascent, shuttle missions, re-entry, and final approach.