Physics 647 Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Aug 28

First Day of Classes

Intro to GFD

Lecture 1

29

30

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Hydrostatics)

Lecture 2

31

Sept 1

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves)

Lecture 3

4

Labor Day
No Class

5

6

Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics (Shallow water waves and rotation)

Lecture 4 

7

8

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

Lecture 5

Last Day to Drop 

11

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

Lecture 6

12

13

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

Homework #1

Lecture 7

14

15

Vorticity equation and circulation  

Lecture 8

18

Viscosity and boundry layers (Navier-Stokes Equation)

Lecture9

19

20

Approximations and scalings in GFD 

Chapter 3

Homework #2

Lecture 10

21

22

Approximations and scalings in GFD (video of Flow Visualization) 

Chapter 3

Lecture 11

25

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

Lecture 12

26

27

Wave in rotating flows

 
Project topic due
Homework #3
Lecture 13

28

29

Wave in rotating flows

Lecture 14 

Oct 2

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

Lecture 15

3

4

Rossby Waves (video of Dynamics in Rotating Fluids) 

Homework #4

Lecture 16

5

6

Topographic Waves

Lecture 17

9 

Physical mechanisms of Waves

(video of Pressure driven Fluid flows) 

Lecture 18

10

11 

Instabilities and Free Energy

Homework #5

 
Lecture 19

12

13

Exam I handed out

Analysis of Instabilities

Lecture 20

16

Baratropic Instabilities
Lecture 21

17

18

Tropical Dynamics
Lecture 22

19

20

Tropical Dynamics


Lecture 23

23

Lecture 24

24

25

Lecture 25

26

27

Exam I Due

Lecture 26

30

Viscosity and Ekman layers
Chapter 5
Lecture 27

31

Nov 1

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

2

3

Ekman pumping
Lecture 29

Last Day to Withdraw

6

Lecture 30

7

8

Stratification

Lecture 31

9

10

Lecture 32

13

Stratification

Lecture 33

14

15

Homework #6
Stratification

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

Lecture 34

16

17

Lecture 35

20

Exam II
handed out

Stratification
Lecture 36

21

22

Stratification
Lecture 37

23

Thanksgiving

No Classes

24

Thanksgiving

No Classes

27

Solitons and Intro to turbulence
Project due 

Lecture 38

28

29

Intro to turbulence
 

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

30

Dec 1

Intro to turbulence
 

Lecture 40

4

Intro to turbulence

Exam II Due
Lecture 41

5

6

Project presentations  

Lecture 42

7

8

Project presentations  

Lecture 43

11

12

13

14

15