Master of Science in Applied Physics
Master track
Physics of Transport in Fluids
Transport in fluids
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cellular structures, inkjet printers
blood flow
fish, insects, birds
musical intruments
chemical reactors, turbines, engines
wind mills, ships, airplanes
buildings, rivers, harbours
volcanoes
glaciers
oceans, planetary atmospheres
O(<<1mm)
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O(1–10 cm)
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O(1–10 m)
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O(10–100 m)
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O(100 m–10 km)
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O(>> 1000 km)
Scales
Length scales:
Time scales:
O(<< 1 mm)
O(<< 1 sec)
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O(>> 1000 km)
O(>> 1000 years)
Physics of Transport in Fluids:
3 research groups
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Vortex Dynamics & Turbulence (WDY)
(Profs Herman Clercx, GertJan van Heijst, Federico Toschi)
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Mesoscopic Transport Phenomena (MTP)
(Prof Anton Darhuber)
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Transport in Permeable Media (TPM)
(Prof Olaf Adan)
Building Cascade
Research themes at WDY
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Droplets in 3D turbulent flows
Transport and mixing in 2D turbulent flows
Vortex dynamics
Viscous mixing
Physics of the atmosphere
 Combination of theoretical, experimental and
numerical work (tailor-made to the student’s
interests).
3D turbulence
• order  chaos
• L.F. Richardson (1925)
‘Big Whirls’:
“Big whirls have little whirls,
which feed on their velocity.
Little whirls have lesser whirls,
and so on to viscosity”
• Variety of applications in geophysical
and industrial situations
Example project:
Decay and breakup of wake vortices due to external turbulence
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Example project (continued)
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2D turbulence
• 3D:
• order  chaos
• 2D:
• chaos  order
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Example project:
Electromagnetically forced 2D turbulence
Vortex dynamics
• Closely related to 2D and
3D turbulence
• Many geophysical
applications
• Laboratory experiments
in rotating/stratified fluids
• High-resolution numerical
simulations
Physics of the atmosphere
• Close collaboration with KNMI
• Many possibilities for external assignments and
graduation projects
MTP: small scales
Contact line control during wetting & dewetting
MTP: small scales
Enhanced oil recovery
MTP: small scales
Micro-fluid dynamics:
- manipulating drops in small channels
- micro-mixing
TPM: transport in porous materials
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Moisture transport in building materials (concrete, brick)
Ion transport and crystallization
Coatings
Pore-scale modelling
NMR and porous media
TPM: transport in porous materials
Master track Transportfysica
Opbouw van de Master-track:
17 ECTS track-vakken:
2 x 4 ECTS
3 x 3 ECTS
track-verplichte vakken
track-keuzevakken
5 – 14 ECTS
9 – 0 ECTS
10 ECTS algemeen verplichte vakken
19 ECTS externe stage
60 ECTS afstudeerproject
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120 ECTS totaal
technische keuzevakken
vrije keuzevakken
14 ECTS keuzevakken:
Track-verplichte vakken:
3T100
3T340
Advanced Fluid Dynamics
Micro- and Nanofluidics
Track-keuzevakken: omvang per vak 3 ECTS
(van Heijst)
4 ECTS
(Darhuber/Harting/Huinink) 4 ECTS
Elective courses
Fluids (WDY, MTP)
3T380
3T370
3T360
3T350
3T280
3T250
Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
Experimental Methods in Transport Physics
Hydrodynamic Stability
Chaos
Turbulent Flow Phenomena
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
(Toschi/Clercx/Harting/…)
(Darhuber/Trieling/vdWater /...)
(Clercx/Kamp/van de Wiel)
(Toschi/vdWater)
(Trieling/van de Wiel)
(van Heijst)
Permeable Media (TPM)
3F240
3F250
3S390
NMR/MRI
Transport in Porous Media
Biosensors for Medical Diagnostics
(Kopinga/Strijkers)
(Pel)
(van IJzendoorn)
Elective courses other groups / departments:
2DN41
3P110
4P510
4P540
4P060
4P630
4P700
4P710
4P720
8W090
8W150
8W270
Aeroacoustics
(Rienstra)
Introduction to Plasma Physics
(Engeln/Rapp)
Renewable Energy Sources
(van Noort/Kramer/van de Sanden/Creatore)
Multiphase Flow with Heat Effects
(van der Geld)
Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics
(Smeulders)
Application of FEM to Heat and Flow Problems
(Rindt)
Turbo Machinery
(de Lange)
Micro Heat Transfer
(Frijns)
Wind Energy
(van Bussel)
Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics
(van de Vosse)
Multi-fluid Mechanics
(Anderson)
Fluid Biomechanics
(van de Vosse)
Klinische Fysica
Keuzevakken:
3F190
3F200
3F230
Clinical MRI
Medical Physics
Measuring and Monitoring of Vital Functions
(Wijn)
(Wijn)
(Wijn)
Keuzevakken andere faculteiten:
8H010
8N020
8S070
8S080
8W090
New Developments in Fluorescence Microscopy on Living Tissues (Slaaf)
Physiological NMR
(Nicolaij)
Clinical Chemistry
(Vader)
Protein Engineering
(Merkx)
Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics
(van de Vosse)
Graduation project
• a graduation project can be theoretical, numerical,
experimental, or a combination of these
• supervision by one of the PhD students together with
one of the staff members in the section
More information
WDY:
MTP:
TPM:
www.fluid.tue.nl
via web page faculteit
via web page faculteit