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Advanced Fluid Dynamics of the Environment, Fall 2002

Author: Mei, Chiang C.
Subject: Science and Technology
Institution Name: M.I.T.
Collection: MIT OpenCourseWare
Grade Level: Post-secondary

Abstract: Theoretical topics of fluid dynamics relevant to natural phenomena or man-made hazards in water and atmosphere. Basic law of fluid motion. Scaling and approximations. Slow flows, with applications to drag on a particle and mud flow on a slope. Boundary layers: jets and plumes in pure fluids or in porous media. Thermal and buoyancy effects, selective withdrawal and internal waves. Transient boundary layers in impulsive flows or waves. Induced streaming and mass transport. Dispersion in steady flows or in waves. Effects of earth rotation on coastal flows. Wind induced flow in shallow seas. Stratified seas and coastal upwelling.

Course Type: Full Course
Languages: English
Material Types: Homework and Assignments, Lecture Notes, Other, Syllabi
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Civil and Environmental Engineering, fluid dynamics, fluid motion, Cartesian tensor convention, scaling, approximations, slow flow, Stokes flow, Oseen, spreading, gravity, stratified fluid, boundary layer, high speed flow, jets, thermal plume, pure fluids, porous media, similarity method of solution, shear, stratification, Orr-Sommerfeld, capillary phenomena, bubbles, drops, Marangoni instability, contact lines, geophysical fluid dynamics, coastal flows, wind-induced flows, coastal upwelling, transient boundary layer, buoyancy, convection porous media, dispersion, hydrodynamic instability, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability