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# Conclusion

This course has focused on two of the most important environmental fluids for engineers: the atmosphere and the oceans. It has been shown that a thorough understanding of the mechanics of these fluids is vital to the success of engineering projects as diverse as spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere and floating tunnels providing road/rail links between land masses.

This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T229 Mechanical engineering: heat and flow.

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