2010 SBS 481 Web Materials (pdf files mostly)

Week
Lecture slides
Handouts & background
Lab & Homework Assignments
Word problems
Feedback
1

1. Introduction
2. Reynolds numbers

Course mechanics;

Syllabus;

Dimensions and units;

Derived quantitites

Questionnaire;

Assessment;

Granular materials lab

Re calculations

Granular materials;

Surface tension

2

3.Flumes

4.Boundary layers

Viscosity and density vs. temperature;

BBL terminology

Reynolds numbers: cylinders in cross flow WP2, Boundary-layer thickness and bed shear stresses  
3

5.Bluff Bodies

6.Stokes law and drag

  WP3, Reynolds numbers in the last couple of assighments Bluff body feedback
4
7.Microenvironments Drag and lift WP4, Roughness Re  
5
No lecture today; review session instead

Review outline for Exam I;

2008 version of exam

For the lab assignment, see the bottom of p.2 on the 3D flow handout above. No WP due this week 2008 feedback on exam
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Answer key
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8.Diffusion; bacterial strategies; advection plus diffusion Stirring and mixing WP5, Diffusive fluxes  
8
9. Suspension feeding Suspension feeding    
9
10. Burrowing

Review outline for Exam 2;

2008 version of exam

Lab demo of burrowing in seawater-gelatin   2008 feedback on exam
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11

11. Information transfer;

12. Using information

12

13. Unsteady flows;

14. Swimming

Waves and Froude numbers  
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15. Pumps and miscellany Review outline for final
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Comprehensive Final, including information transfer

 

Also, see the useful links page. In order to allow annotation, I have not placed the links in the tabular format used above for class materials. It adds new material relevant to weekly topics, but many of the early listed links remain relevant but are not repeated, so please revisit them frequently.

You may use any approach to do the weekly word problems.  As of AY10-11, UMaine students have access to Mathematica and may download it onto their computers by visiting the UMaine IT website. A free tutorial is available at http://url.wolfram.com/5oLdjC/.