MECH&AE 250M

Introduction to Microfluids/Nanofluids

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Introduction to fundamentals of microfluids. No-slip and slip boundary conditions. Sedimentation and diffusion in liquids. Osmotic pressure and Donnan equilibrium in fluid mixtures. Fundamentals of surface phenomena, spreading, and contact angles. Introduction to van der Waals interactions, electrical double layer, and zeta potential. Basics of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics.

Letter grading.

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 150A.

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MECH&AE 150A

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MECH&AE 250M

MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
  - MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications3 more beneath
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
  - MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
  - PHYSICS 1B

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