Lectures related to Sailboat Keel Design

Sailboat Dynamics: Key Parameters and Drag Forces

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

Explores the dynamics of sailing ships, including drag, sail design, and foiling.

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.

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Prandtl-Meyer Flows: Aero

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

Viscosity experiment

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

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.

Gliding Paper Experiment

Delves into the dynamics of lubricated flow through a project with a gliding piece of paper.

Frontwing Design: EPFL Racing Team

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

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.

Spring Clutches and Torque Limiters

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

Bernoulli's Equation and Viscosity

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

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.

Non-inertial Reference Frames & Constraints

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

Boundary Layers: Recap and Effects on Drag and Lift

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

Proper Actions and Quotients

Covers proper actions of groups on Riemann surfaces and introduces algebraic curves via square roots.

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Fundamental Groups

Explores fundamental groups, homotopy classes, and coverings in connected manifolds.