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Journal club in fluid mechanics


Technical University of Denmark


General course objectives:
To bring the student in a position to better understand and critically relate to research within the field of fluid mechanics.To make the student familiar with important scientific papers and other publications within the field. To bring the student in a position to review others and own papers.To improve the student’s ability to communicate and discuss scientific standpoints.

Learning objectives:
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
  • Perform a literature search for a specific topic in library databases
  • Select the most relevant papers from a literature search
  • Relate different papers for a specific topic to each other and give a brief review of the state-of-the-art the topic
  • Review the methods and results from a scientific paper
  • Critically evaluate the discussion and conclusion in a scientific paper
  • Present the content of a scientific paper orally for peer students
  • Participate constructively in a discussion of a scientific work
  • Review a paper written by a peer student
  • Present own results in the form used at scientific conferences

Contents:
The course will consist of presentations by the students of scientific papers from recognised journals. The goal, results and conclusions shall be presented, and a critical review of method and results shall be made. The individual student shall give an account of the important elements in the paper and how this can contribute to the student’s research. The presentations are given as visual presentations and shall also result in summaries of the important results and conclusions.

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Course organizer
Jens Honore , Knud Erik
Place/Venue
Anker Engelunds Vej 1
City
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Country
Denmark
Workload
5
Link
http://kurser.dtu.dk/course/41392