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Hydrodynamics - NMET523
Title: Hydrodynamics
Guaranteed by: Department of Atmospheric Physics (32-KFA)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: Marine Bonazzola, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Meteorology and Climatology
Incompatibility : NMET034
Interchangeability : NMET034
Annotation -
Last update: JUDr. Dana Macharová (24.09.2012)
Elements of ideal and real fluids motion. Applications in atmospheric physics are emphasized in the lecture.
Aim of the course -
Last update: JUDr. Dana Macharová (24.09.2012)

PThe main aim of the subject consists in giving the students the introductory information to the fluid kinematics and dynamics.

Literature -
Last update: JUDr. Dana Macharová (24.09.2012)

1) Batchelor G.K. (2000): An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press

2) Landau, L.D., Lifshitz, E.M. (2003): .Fluid Mechanics, Butterworth Heinemann

3) Cushman-Roisin, B. (1994): Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Prentice-Hall

4) Faber, T.F (1995): FLUID DYNAMICS FOR PHYSICISTS, Cambridge University Press

5) Kantha, L.H., Clayson, C.A. (2000) Small Scale Processes in Geophysical Fluid Flows, Academic Press

Teaching methods -
Last update: JUDr. Dana Macharová (24.09.2012)

Course and exercise.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: JUDr. Dana Macharová (24.09.2012)

Knowledge according to syllabus.

Syllabus -
Last update: JUDr. Dana Macharová (24.09.2012)

1. Kinematics of the flow field

1.1 Lagrangian and Eulerian specifications of the flow field

1.2 Differentiation following the motion of the flow field

1.3 Trajectory and streamline

1.4 Stream function and velocity potential

2. General equations governing the motion of a fluid

2.1 Conservation of mass

2.2 Equation of state

2.3 Thermodynamic equation

2.4 Volume forces and surface forces

2.5 The expression of the stress tensor

2.6 Scale analysis and simplifications of hydrodynamic equations; the Reynolds number

2.7 The Euler equation

2.8 The Navier-Stokes equation

3. Vorticity dynamics

3.1 Vorticity equation

3.2 Circulation theorems

4. Irrotational flow theory for inviscid and real fluids

4.1 General properties of irrotational flow of an inviscid fluid

4.2 Magnus effect

4.3 The lift force on an aerofoil: the Kutta-Joukowski theorem

5. Rotating inviscid and real fluids

5.1 The Coriolis force

5.2 Rossby number

5.3 Taylor-Proudman theorem

5.4 Motion in a thin layer on a rotating sphere: geostrophic balance

5.5 Ekman layer


 
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