Interdisciplinary Nonlinear Dynamics:
ME 438* Winter quarter 2002
Tuesday/Thursday, 11:00 - 12:20, Room M166
Continuum and molecular approaches to investigating flow behavior on extremely small scales.
The course will consist of lectures plus a project in which you can explore a particular subject in depth through computer simulations and/or analysis.
Depending on time and class interest, topics may include the following:
Microfluidic pumping
Flow in confined geometries such as through nanotubes and through channels such as micropores and cell membranes
Capillary flow along solid surfaces including the effect of substrate structure and chemistry
The factors which control the minimum size of features on printed circuit boards
Polymers, proteins and DNA in the aqueous environment.
The molecular origins of fluid slip including
Molecular dynamics
Deviations from Poiseuille flow due to slip
The Boltzmann equation and fluid mechanics
Text: Micro Flows: Fundamentals and Simulation, G. E. Karniadakis & A. Beskok, Springer (2002).
Questions? Please contact --
Stephen Davis Seth Lichter
Room M440 Room L396
(847) 491-5397 (847) 467-1885
sdavis@northwestern.edu s-lichter@northwestern.edu
Information on other courses on the dynamics of complex systems can be found at http://www.complex-systems.northwestern.edu/
*This course, true to its interdisciplinary nature, is listed in many departments (ME, ChE, BME, ECE, ESAM, Mat. Sci., Math, Phys., Neuro). So, ME-438 is the same course as ESAM-438, etc.