Physics 647 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Aug 26

First Day of Classes

Intro to GFD

Lecture 1

27

28

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)

Lecture 2

29

30

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves)

Lecture 3

Sept 2

Labor Day
No Class

3

4

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation)

Lecture 4 

5

6

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

Lecture 5

Last Day to Drop 

9

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

Lecture 6

10

11

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

Homework #1

Lecture 7

12

13

Vorticity equation and circulation  

Lecture 8

16

Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation)

Lecture9

17

18

Approximations and scalings in GFD 

Chapter 3

Homework #2

Lecture 10

19

20

Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization) 

Chapter 3

Lecture 11

23

Implications of Rotation for Flow dynamics (video of Eularian vrs Lagrangian Representation) 

Lecture 12

24

25

Wave in rotating flows

 
Project topic due
Homework #3
Lecture 13

26

27

Wave in rotating flows

Lecture 14 

30

Barotropic flows: Kelvin Waves  (video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids)

Lecture 15

Oct 1

2

Rossby Waves (video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids) 

Homework #4

Lecture 16

3

4

Topographic Waves

Lecture 17

7 

Physical mechanisms of Waves

(video of Pressure driven Fluid flows) 

Lecture 18

8

9 

Instabilities and Free Energy

Homework #5

 
Lecture 19

10

11

Exam I handed out

Analysis of Instabilities

Lecture 20

14

Baratropic Instabilities
Lecture 21

15

16

Tropical Dynamics
Lecture 22

17

18

Tropical Dynamics


Lecture 23

21

Lecture 24

22

23

Lecture 25

24

25

Exam I Due

Lecture 26

28

Viscosity and Ekman layers
Chapter 5
Lecture 27

29

30

Ekman layers and Ekman pumping
(video of Rotating fluids again and Flow Instabilities video .... a really good one)
Lecture 28

31

Nov 1

Ekman pumping
Lecture 29

Last Day to Withdraw

4

Lecture 30

5

6

Stratification

Lecture 31

7

8

Lecture 32

11

Stratification

Lecture 33

12

13

Homework #6
Stratification

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

Lecture 34

14

15

Lecture 35

18

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 36

19

20

Stratification
Lecture 37

21

Thanksgiving

No Classes

22

Solitons and Intro to turbulence
 

Lecture 38

25

Intro to turbulence
Project due   

(A bit of the Fundamentals-Boundry Layers video)
Lecture 39

26

27

Thanksgiving

No Classes

28

Thanksgiving

No Classes

29

Thanksgiving

No Classes

2

Intro to turbulence

Exam II Due
Lecture 41

3

4

Project presentations  

Lecture 42

5

6

Project presentations  

Lecture 43

9

10

11

12

13