Physics 645 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Sept 3

4

5

6

First Day of Classes

7

Intro to GFD
Chapter 1

Lecture 1

10

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)
Chapter 1,2 
Lecture 2

11

12

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves)

Lecture 3

13

14

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation)

Lecture 4 

17

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Rotating coordinates, introduction to equations of motion)  

Chapter 3
Lecture 5

18

19

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Introduction to equations of motion and vorticity)  

Homework #1

Lecture 6

20

21

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Vorticity equation, circulation and scalings in GFD)

Lecture 7
Last Day to Drop

24

Vorticity equation and circulation  

Lecture 8

25

26

Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation)  

Homework #2

Lecture 9

27

28

Approximations and scalings in GFD 

Chapter 3

Lecture 10

Oct 1

Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization) 

Lecture 11

2

3

Implications of Rotation for Flow dynamics (video of Eularian vrs Lagrangian Representation) 
 Chapter 4 and 6
Homework #3
Lecture 12

4

5

Wave in rotating flows

Lecture 13 

8

Lecture 14

9

10

Barotropic flows: Kelvin Waves  

(video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids)  Homework #4

Lecture 15

11

12

Rossby Waves

Lecture 16

15 

Topographic Waves

Lecture 17

16

17 

Physical mechanisms of Waves

(video of Pressure driven Fluid flows) 
Lecture 18

18

19

Exam I handed out

Instabilities and Free Energy

Chapter 7

Homework #5
Lecture 19

22

Analysis of Instabilities
Lecture 20

23

24

Baratropic Instabilities
Lecture 21

25

26

Tropical Dynamics


Lecture 22

29

No class
Chapter 19
Lecture 23

30

31

No class

Lecture 24

Nov 1

2

No class


Lecture 25

Nov 5

Exam I Due

Viscosity and Ekman layers
Chapter 5
Lecture 26

6

7

Ekman layers and Ekman pumping
(video of Rotating fluids again and Flow Instabilities video .... a really good one)
Lecture 27

8

9

Ekman pumping
Lecture 28

12

Meet in NSF 122 at 12:30

Lecture 29

13

14

Meet in NSF 122 at 12:30

Stratification
Chapter 8
Lecture 30

15

16

Homework #6
Lecture 31

19

Meet in NSF 122 at 12:30

Stratification
Chapter 9

Lecture 32

20

21

Meet in NSF 122 at 12:30

Homework #7
Stratification

(Stratified Flows video .... a good one)

Lecture 33

22

23

Lecture 34

26

Meet in NSF 122 at 12:30

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 35

27

28

Meet in NSF 122 at 12:30

Stratification
Lecture 36

29

Thanksgiving

No Classes

30

Thanksgiving

No Classes

Dec 3

Solitons and Intro to turbulence
 

Lecture 37

4

5

Intro to turbulence
 

(A bit of the Fundamentals-Boundry Layers video)
Lecture 38

6

7

Intro to turbulence
 

Project presentations

Lecture 39

10

Intro to turbulence

Exam II Due
Lecture 40

11

12

Project presentations  

Lecture 41

13

14

Project presentations  

Lecture 42

17

18

19

20

21