Hydrodynamics





Time/place: Lecture (eKVV):  Tue 12:25-14:00 (D6-135), Wed 10:00-12:00 (D6-135) & Fri 8:30-10:00 (D6-135)
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Tutorials (eKVV):  Mon 12:30-14:00 (D6-135)

Instructor: Nicolas Borghini (borghini at physik dot uni-bielefeld dot de) E6-123
Tutor:  Dennis Schröder
 
Oral exam, registration at the end of the semester
  → list of exam dates (please register at the Prüfungsamt)

Homepage:   http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~borghini/Teaching/Hydrodynamics
 
News: Outcome of the lectures evaluation
 
Prerequisites: Classical mechanics, Special Relativity, Thermodynamics & Statistical physics
(Theoretische Physik I, II, III)
 
Literature: * Faber: Fluid dynamics for physicists
* Fließbach: Lehrbuch zur theoretischen Physik: Band I: Mechanik
* Guyon, Hulin, Petit, Mitescu: Physical hydrodynamics
* Landau & Lifshitz: Course of theoretical physics: Vol. 6: Hydrodynamics
* Rezzolla & Zanotti: Relativistic hydrodynamics  (online access,  list of corrections)
 
Content: Basic notions on continuous media
  April 11  Continuum hypothesis; local thermodynamic equilibrium
  April 13  Lagrangian and Eulerian description
  April 17  Mechanical stress
Kinematics of a continuous medium
  April 17  Motion of a fluid element
  April 18  Classification of fluid flows
Fundamental equations of non-relativistic fluid dynamics
  April 18  Reynolds transport theorem; conservation of mass
  April 20  Euler equation & energy conservation in a perfect fluid
  April 24  Alternative forms of the Euler equation; Navier-Stokes equation
Inviscid non-relativistic flows
  April 25 & 27  Hydrostatics; steady flows of a perfect fluid
  May 2  Vortex dynamics in a perfect fluid
  May 4  Math. interlude: curvilinear coordinates
  May 9  Potential flows
  May 16  Two-dimensional potential flows
Waves in non-relativistic perfect fluids
  May 23  Linear sea surface waves
  May 29  Sound waves in a perfect fluid
  May 30 & June 6  Shock waves
  June 6  Math. interlude: first order partial differential equations
Dissipative non-relativistic flows
  June 8  Fundamental equations of the dynamics of Newtonian fluids
  June 13  Simple steady flows of a Newtonian fluid
  June 15  Dynamic similarity;  dimensional analysis
  June 19  Flows at low Reynolds number
  June 20  An example of boundary layer: first Stokes problem
Dynamics of relativistic fluids
  June 27  Fundamental equations of relativistic fluid dynamics
  June 29 & July 3  Perfect relativistic fluids
  July 3  An example of perfect relativistic flow
  July 6  Dissipative relativistic fluids
Turbulence and heat convection in nonrelativistic fluids
  July 11  Turbulence: phenomenology and basic modeling
  July 13  Statistical description of turbulence
  July 17 & 18  Convective heat transfer
 
Links: * Illustrative videos by the (US) National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films; you can also check the accompanying film notes
* Further fluid mechanics movies are available here
* Online version of the NIST Handbook of mathematical functions