Physics 647 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Aug 31

Sept 1

2

3

First Day of Classes

4

Intro to GFD

Lecture 1

7

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)

Lecture 2

8

9

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves)

Lecture 3

10

11

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation)

Lecture 4 

14

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

Lecture 5

15

16

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

Homework #1

Lecture 6

17

18

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

Lecture 7
Last Day to Drop

21

Vorticity equation and circulation  

Lecture 8

22

23

Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation)  

Homework #2

Lecture 9

24

25

Approximations and scalings in GFD 

Chapter 3

Lecture 10

28

Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization) 

Lecture 11

29

30

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

Oct 1

2

Wave in rotating flows

Lecture 13 

5

Lecture 14

6

7

Barotropic flows: Kelvin Waves  

(video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids)  Homework #4

Lecture 15

8

9

Rossby Waves

Lecture 16

12 

Topographic Waves

Lecture 17

13

14 

Physical mechanisms of Waves

(video of Pressure driven Fluid flows) 
Lecture 18

15

16

Exam I handed out

Instabilities and Free Energy

Homework #5
Lecture 19

19

Analysis of Instabilities
Lecture 20

20

21

Baratropic Instabilities
Lecture 21

22

23

Tropical Dynamics


Lecture 22

26

Lecture 23

27

28

Lecture 24

29

30

Exam I Due

Lecture 25

Nov 2

Viscosity and Ekman layers
Chapter 5
Lecture 26

3

4

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

5

6

Ekman pumping
Lecture 28

9

Lecture 29

10

11

Stratification

Lecture 30

12

13

Lecture 31

16

Stratification

Lecture 32

17

18

Homework #5
Stratification

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

Lecture 33

19

20

Lecture 34

23

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 35

24

25

Stratification
Lecture 36

26

Thanksgiving

No Classes

27

Thanksgiving

No Classes

30

Solitons and Intro to turbulence
Project due 

Lecture 37

Dec 1

2

Intro to turbulence
 

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

3

4

Intro to turbulence
 

Lecture 39

7

Intro to turbulence

Exam II Due
Lecture 40

8

9

Project presentations  

Lecture 41

10

11

Project presentations  

Lecture 42

17

18

19

20

21