Master of Mathematics in Applied Mathematics - Fluid Mechanics

University of Waterloo

Fluid flow is governed by complicated nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. In many situations of interest the flow spans a huge range of length scales, with the nonlinearity of the governing equations resulting in the transfer of energy from one length scale to another. Because of this complexity, the field of fluid mechanics has been the birth place of many important ideas in mathematics. It continues to stimulate work in areas such as partial differential equations, asymptotics and perturbation theory, computational methods, and nonlinear waves, including solitons, instability theory, chaos, and stochastic processes.Modern society has been shaped by a long tradition of mutual inspiration and enrichment between Mathematics and the Sciences. In this tradition, the Department of Applied Mathematics offers its graduate students opportunities for study in the areas of Control Theory and Dynamical Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Mathematical Medicine and Biology, Mathematical Physics, and Scientific Computation. Our students' research projects involve cutting-edge applications of mathematical theory in a broad range of fundamental and applied sciences.