Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA)
Needles Hall, second floor, room 2201
Subject:
Applied Mathematics (AMATH)
Catalog number:
863
Unit weight:
0.50
Meet type:
LEC
Grading basis:
NUM
Cross-listing(s):
N/A
Requisites:
N/A
Description:
Mathematical methods, stability of parellel flows for unstratified and stratified fluids, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, centrifugal instability, barotropic and baroclinic instabilities, the effects of viscosity and the Orr-Sommerfeld equation, transition to turbulence, averaged equations, closure problem, homogeneous isotropic turbulence, turbulent boundary layers, effects of stratification. Students should have completed an introductory undergraduate course in fluid mechanics.
Topic titles:
N/A
Faculty:
Mathematics (MAT)
Academic level:
GRD
Course ID:
000133