About the oral exam
The oral exam will last for approximately 30 minutes. The first 15 minutes you will be expected to present one out of 5 different themes from the syllabus. You will make the draw, and then we will give you approximately 5 minutes to collect your thoughts before starting the exam. The 5 main topics are
- Parallel shear flows
- Similarity solutions
- Stokes flow
- Laminar boundary layers
- Turbulence and turbulence modelling
For the presentation you will only have the blackboard. You are expected to present a brief summary of what we have learned throughout this course, but it is up to you to decide what is most important to include in the presentation. You can present examples of a specific flow in the theme, and then outline how to solve the equations. You may also choose to derive relevant equations. We assume that the Navier-Stokes are known, and as such the starting point for most such derivations. We may ask questions during the first 15 minutes if you get stuck, but we will try to save up questions for the last 15 minutes. We may then ask about anything else from the syllabus as well. The presentation will count for 50 % of the grade.