General Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with fluid equations and stress tensors as provided, e.g., by Kinetic Theory
Course Overview: Areas: CMT, Astro.
Prequels: Kinetic Theory (MT), an undergraduate course on Fluid Dynamics.
Please submit your homework for Advanced Fluid Dynamics via the 'assignments' tab.
Course Syllabus:
Part I. Magnetohydrodynamics (10 lectures)
MHD equations: conservation laws in a conducting fluid; Maxwell stress/magnetic forces; induction equation; Lundquist theorem, flux freezing, amplification of magnetic field. MHD in a strong guide field: MHD waves; high-beta and anisotropic limits and orderings; incompressible MHD, Elsasser MHD, Reduced MHD. Static MHD equilibria, force-free solutions, helicity, Taylor relaxation. Energy principle. Instabilities: interchange, Z-pinch.
Part II. Complex fluids (6 lectures) Fluid mechanics with general extra
stress. Dilute suspension of spheres: Einstein viscosity. Dilute suspension of bead-spring pairs leading to the Oldroyd-B model for polymeric liquids: Elastic waves and normal stress differences (anisotropic pressure). Jeffery's equation for orientable axisymmetric particles. Dilute suspensions of such particles: road map to liquid crystals, swimmers, active matter.
Lecturer(s):
Prof. Paul Dellar
External Lecturer(s):
Prof. Alex Schekochihin
Assessment Type:
Invigilated written examination in TT or no formal assessment; homework completion
