Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Sept 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 First Day of Classes |
7 Intro to GFD
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10 Fundamentals of Fluid
Dynamics (Hydrostatics) |
11 |
12 Fundamentals of Fluid
Dynamics (Shallow water waves) |
13 |
14 Fundamentals of Fluid
Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation) |
17 Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Rotating coordinates, introduction to equations of motion) Chapter 3 |
18 |
19 Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Introduction to equations of motion and vorticity) Homework
#1 |
20 |
21 Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Vorticity equation, circulation and scalings in GFD) Rm 401 IARC |
24 Vorticity equation and circulation
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25 |
26 Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation) Homework
#2 |
27 |
28 Approximations and scalings in GFD Rm 417 IARC Lecture 10 |
Oct 1 Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization)
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2 |
3 Implications of
Rotation for Flow dynamics
(video of Eularian vrs
Lagrangian Representation) |
4 |
5
Wave in rotating flows Rm 401 IARC |
8
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9
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10 Barotropic flows: Kelvin Waves (video of Dynamics in
Rotating Fluids) Homework
#4 |
11
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12 Rm 401 IARC Lecture 16 |
15 Topographic Waves
Lecture 17 |
16
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17 Physical mechanisms of Waves (video of Pressure
driven Fluid flows) |
18 |
19 Exam I handed out Instabilities and Free Energy Chapter 7 Rm 401 IARC |
22
Analysis of
Instabilities |
23
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24
Baratropic
Instabilities |
25 |
26 Exam I Due Tropical
Dynamics |
29
Climate and Climate
dynamics mechanisms |
30
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31
Climate and Climate
dynamics mechanisms |
Nov 1 |
2
Climate and Climate
dynamics mechanisms |
5
Viscosity and Ekman
layers |
6
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7
Ekman layers and Ekman
pumping |
8
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9
Rm 401 IARC |
12
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13
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14
Stratification |
15 |
16 Rm 401 IARC |
19
Stratification Lecture 32 |
20
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21
Homework
#7 (Stratified Flows video
.... a good one) |
22 Thanksgiving No Classes |
23 Thanksgiving No Classes |
26
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27
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28
Stratification |
29 |
30
Stratification Rm 401 IARC |
Dec 3 Solitons and Intro to
turbulence
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4
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5 Intro to
turbulence (A bit of the
Fundamentals-Boundry Layers video) |
6 |
7 Intro to
turbulence Exam II
Due |
10 Intro to
turbulence
|
11 |
12
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13 |
14 Rm 401 IARC |
17
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18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |