- Lecturer: Andrew Fowler
General Prerequisites:
B5.3 Viscous Flow and B5.4 Waves and Compressible Flow are both highly recommended, Viscous Flow being the more essential of the two. It will be necessary that you will have previously studied some Fluid Dynamics and have an understanding of the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations and their associated boundary conditions.
Course Term: Michaelmas
Course Lecture Information: 16 lectures
Course Weight: 1
Course Level: M
Assessment Type: Written Examination
Course Overview:
The course will expand and illuminate the ‘classical’ fluid mechanics taught in the third year B5.3 and B5.4 courses, and illustrate its modern application in a number of different areas in industry and geoscience.
Learning Outcomes:
Course Synopsis:
Thin film flows. Droplet dynamics. Elongational flows. Groundwater flow.
Convection, boundary layer theory. Double-diffusive convection, plumes.
Rotating and stratified flows, geostrophy and quasi-geostrophy, baroclinic instability.
Two-phase flows. Averaged models. Density wave oscillations.
Convection, boundary layer theory. Double-diffusive convection, plumes.
Rotating and stratified flows, geostrophy and quasi-geostrophy, baroclinic instability.
Two-phase flows. Averaged models. Density wave oscillations.