Week 1 | April 3, 5 (moved) | Examples of instabilities and turbulence. Nature of turbulent flows. Averaging, Mean momentum equations, Reynolds stresses. Chap. 1, 4 (Pope). Also, read Chap. 1 (B&W). |
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Week 2 | April 10, 12 | Averaging, Mean momentum equations, Reynolds stresses. Free shear flows (start). Chap. 5. |
Week 3 | April 17, 19 | Free shear flows (complete). Mean turbulence (turbulent kinetic energy, enstrophy) transport equations. Chap. 5. Also, read Chap. 5 (B&W). |
Week 4 | April 24, 26 | Statistical tools: Chap. 3. Also, read Chap. 2 (B&W). |
Week 5 | May 1, 3 | Scales of turbulent motion. Chap. 6. |
Week 6 | May 8, 10 | Turbulent dispersion Chap. 11 (B&W), 12.4 (Pope). Scalar spectra Chap 8.6 (T&L). |
Week 7 | May 15, 17 | Wall flows. Chap. 7 (Pope) & Chap. 4 (B&W). |
Week 8 | May 22, 24 | Wall flows, continued. Geophysical boundary layers. |
Week 9 | May 29, 31 | Stratified shear flows and stratified turbulence. |
Week 10 | June 5 (moved), 7 | Numerical Modeling. |