Why choose this programme option?

Did you know that the biggest waves along the Norwegian coast can be over 100 meters high and are located at the interface between light and heavy water far below the surface? How great devastation may actually a tidal wave - tsunami - cause along the coast? Can giant ocean waves explain mysterious shipwrecks? Are you interested in the safety of ships and oil platforms in stormy environments, or industrial flow problems such as simultaneous transport of oil and gas in the same pipeline by multiphase flow?

If this sounds interesting then the programme option Mechanics could be for you.

This programme option provides a modern and thorough education towards interesting and important applications in technology and science. It is also possible to combine the themes fluid mechanics and solid mechanics, for example, to study the interaction between fluids / liquids and structures.

The website matematikk.org writes this about mechanics subject:

"Norway could have been a poor country without mechanics. And we mean that literally. Mechanics is in fact an extremely important subject for the oil production in the North Sea. Mechanics is important to describe the forces tearing oil rigs and ships bringing oil up from the sea and onto land.

This programme option also describes how gas and oil flows in crustal porous layer. And as if that was not enough: mechanics is also important to calculate how one of Norway's future energy sources, wind turbines, can deal with environmental loads.

Movements of liquids, solids and gas are commonly considered in mechanics. But if you have your eyes focussed far higher, you can even use these studies to calculate the movement of planets, satellites and spacecraft."

Published Sep. 16, 2016 11:37 AM - Last modified Dec. 1, 2016 1:03 PM