Physics 645 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Jan 18

19

20

21

First Day of Classes

22

Intro to GFD

Lecture 1

25

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)

Lecture 2

26

27

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves)

Lecture 3

28

29

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation)

Lecture 4 

Feb 1

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

Lecture 5

2

3

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

Homework #1

Lecture 6

4

5

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

Lecture 7
Last Day to Drop

8

Vorticity equation and circulation  

Lecture 8

9

10

Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation)  

Homework #2

Lecture 9

11

12

Approximations and scalings in GFD 

Chapter 3

Lecture 10

22

Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization) 

Lecture 11

23

24

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

Homework #3
Lecture 12

25

26

Wave in rotating flows

Lecture 13 

March 1

Lecture 14

2

3

Barotropic flows: Kelvin Waves  

(video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids)  Homework #4

Lecture 15

4

5

Rossby Waves

Lecture 16

8

Spring Break

9

Spring Break

10

Spring Break

11

Spring Break

12

Spring Break

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

Exam I Due

Lecture 23

30

31

Lecture 24

April 1

2

Lecture 25

5

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

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

23

No Classes

26

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 34

27

28

Stratification
Lecture 35

29

30

Lecture 36

May 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
Exam II
due

Project presentations

Lecture 39

10

11

12

Project presentations  

Lecture 41

13

14

17

18

19

20

21