Instructor: Prof. Juri Toomre , JILA, and Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
E-mail: jtoomre@solarz.colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-7854 (office, JILA A606); (303) 907-9316 (cell)
Office Hours: Mon, Fri Noon-1:00pm either in JILA A606 or Duane G328 (LCD), or readily by appointment
This course focuses on the fundamentals of fluid dynamics as applied to
astrophysical and geophysical systems. We will deal with: the
continuum hypothesis; Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations; basic
conservation laws; vorticity and potential vorticity theorems; dynamic
similarity and scale analysis; inviscid potential flows; gravity waves;
exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equations; boundary layer
formulations; numerical nonlinear simulation approaches; and
compressible flows and shock conditions. There will be introductory
discussions of fluid instabilities, waves, chaos, nonlinear
equilibration, and turbulence.
Details are provided in
syllabus.
Considerable emphasis is placed throughout the course on scaling
procedures to develop simplified model problems tractable to solution,
yet which are of relevance to many real research problems. Course is
augmented by extensive video presentations, plus flow demonstrations.
Kundu, P.K., Cohen, I.M. & Dowling, D.R. Fluid Mechanics (2016, 6th ed.),
Academic Press (Required)
Batchelor, G.K. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics (1970), Cambridge UP
(Excellent reference)
Currie, I.G. Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids (2002, 3rd ed.), CRC Press
(Very useful reference)
Vallis, G.K. Atmospheric & Ocean Science: Fundamentals and Large-Scale
Circulations (2006), Cambridge UP (Excellent reference)
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