Physics 647 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Sept 2

3

4

5

First Day of Classes

6

Intro to GFD

Lecture 1

9

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)

Lecture 2

10

11

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves)

Lecture 3

12

13

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation)

Lecture 4 

16

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

Lecture 5

17

18

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

Homework #1

Lecture 6

19

20

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

Lecture 7
Last Day to Drop

23

Vorticity equation and circulation  

Lecture 8

24

25

Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation)  

Homework #2

Lecture 9

26

27

Approximations and scalings in GFD 

Chapter 3

Lecture 10

30

Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization) 

Lecture 11

Oct 1

2

Implications of Rotation for Flow dynamics (video of Eularian vrs Lagrangian Representation) 
Project topic due
Homework #3
Lecture 12

3

4

Wave in rotating flows

Lecture 13 

7

Lecture 14

8

9

Barotropic flows: Kelvin Waves  

(video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids)  Homework #4

Lecture 15

10

11

Rossby Waves

Lecture 16

14 

Topographic Waves

Lecture 17

15

16 

Physical mechanisms of Waves

(video of Pressure driven Fluid flows) 
Lecture 18

17

18

Exam I handed out

Instabilities and Free Energy

Homework #5
Lecture 19

21

Analysis of Instabilities
Lecture 20

22

23

Baratropic Instabilities
Lecture 21

24

25

Tropical Dynamics


Lecture 22

28

Lecture 23

29

30

Lecture 24

31

Nov 1

Exam I Due

Lecture 25

Nov 4

Viscosity and Ekman layers
Chapter 5
Lecture 26

5

6

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

7

8

Ekman pumping
Lecture 28

11

Lecture 29

12

13

Stratification

Lecture 30

14

15

Lecture 31

18

Stratification

Lecture 32

19

20

Homework #5
Stratification

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

Lecture 33

21

22

Lecture 34

25

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 35

26

27

Stratification
Lecture 36

28

Thanksgiving

No Classes

29

Thanksgiving

No Classes

Dec 2

Solitons and Intro to turbulence
Project due 

Lecture 37

3

4

Intro to turbulence
 

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

5

6

Intro to turbulence
 

Project presentations

Lecture 39

9

Intro to turbulence

Exam II Due
Lecture 40

10

11

Project presentations  

Lecture 41

12

13

Project presentations  

Lecture 42

17

18

19

20

21