Physics 645 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Sept 3

4

5

6

First Day of Classes

7

Intro to GFD

Lecture 1

10

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)

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)  

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) 

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

Homework #5
Lecture 19

22

Analysis of Instabilities
Lecture 20

23

24

Baratropic Instabilities
Lecture 21

25

26

Tropical Dynamics


Lecture 22

29

Lecture 23

30

31

Lecture 24

Nov 1

2

Lecture 25

Nov 5

Viscosity and Ekman layers
Chapter 5
Lecture 26

6

Exam I Due

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

Lecture 29

13

14

Stratification

Lecture 30

15

16

Lecture 31

19

Stratification

Lecture 32

20

21

Homework #5
Stratification

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

Lecture 33

22

Thanksgiving

No Classes

23

Thanksgiving

No Classes

26

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 34

27

28

Stratification
Lecture 35

29

30

Lecture 36

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