SUBJECT
Title
Fluid dynamics
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
The basics of hydrodynamics. The ideal fluid flow, energy flux and impulse flux, The conservation of circulation, gravitational waves, the equations of motion for the frictional fluid, energy dissipation in incompressible fluid. The law of similarity. Turbulence. Boundary layer. Flows on the rotating Earth. Vorticity, potential vorticity. The geostrophic motion. Shallow water flow, Rossby-waves, quasi-geostrophic motion of stratified fluid.
Readings
J. Pedlosky: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Springer New York 1987.