Teaching

This is a 6 EC undergraduate course on fluid flow, heat and mass transfer. I teach this course together with <link en faculty-of-applied-sciences about-faculty departments radiation-science-technology reactor-physics-and-nuclear-materials people martin-rohde>Dr. Martin Rohde. There are 6 hours of lectures and 6 hours of exercises per week, during 10 weeks. The focus is on solving real-life problems by setting up appropriate balances for heat, mass and momentum, and finding quantitative solutions, making justified simplifications when needed. We use the book “Transport Phenomena – the art of balancing” by Harry van den Akker and Robert Mudde

TN1201 Thermodynamics

This is a 3 EC undergraduate course on thermodynamics. I teach this course together with Dr. Henk Schut. There are 8 hours of lectures and 8 hours of exercises per week, during 5 weeks. The focus is on solving real-life problems using the classical, phenomenological, engineering approach to Thermodynamics. We use the book “Principles of Engineering Thermodynamics” by Michael J. Moran and coworkers.

TN1003 & TN2003 Design Engineering for physicists

As a senior Comenius fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, I support a team of innovative teachers (Dr. Rolf Hut, <link en faculty-of-applied-sciences about-faculty departments radiation-science-technology neutron-positron-methods-for-materials people dr-wim-bouwman>Dr. Wim Bouwman) that is setting up and implementing two courses on Design Engineering for Physicists (6 EC each), based on the “maker education” approach.

TN2953-P Research practicals

I teach a 1.5 EC Research Practical on bubble behaviour in two-phase (gas-liquid) microfluidic chips. The students manufacture their own PDMS chip, and study the behaviour of bubbles at a T-junction- as a function of various flow parameters – by analysis of microscope video images.

AP3032 Continuum physics

This is a 6 EC graduate course on continuum physics, including continuum mechanics, fluid flow and magnetohydrodynamics. I teach this course together with <link afdelingen process-energy people fluid-mechanics profdr-djem-roekaerts>Prof. Dirk Roekaerts and <link tnw over-faculteit afdelingen chemical-engineering scientific-staff sasa-kenjeres>Dr. Dasa Kenjeres. There are 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of exercises per week, plus 6 hours of homework assignments per week, during 20 weeks. The focus is on a rigorous mathematical approach to continuum physics, including tensor algebra and tensor calculus. Special topics include thermal convection and magnetohydrodynamics. We use the book “Principles of Continuum Mechanics” by J.N. Reddy.