Hydrodynamics





Time/place: Lecture (eKVV):  Mon 08:30-10:00 (D6-135), Wed 10:00-12:00 (D6-135) 
link to the Zoom meeting (meeting ID: 913 5458 9590; the password will be sent by email)
Tutorials (eKVV):  Wed 08:30-10:00 (D6-135; same Zoom link)

Instructor: Nicolas Borghini (borghini at physik dot uni-bielefeld dot de) E6-123
Tutor:  Christian Eidecker-Dunkel
 
Oral exam, registration at the end of the semester
 → list of exam dates

Homepage:   http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~borghini/Teaching/Hydrodynamics22
 
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: → the whole (incomplete) notes in a single file  [version of June 29]
Basic notions on continuum media
  April 4  Continuum hypothesis; local thermodynamic equilibrium
  April 11  Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions
  April 13  Mechanical stress
Kinematics of deformable bodies
  April 13  Rotation rate tensor
  April 20  Deformation rate tensor; classification of fluid flows
Fundamental equations of non-relativistic fluid dynamics (1)
  April 25  Reynolds transport theorem; conservation of mass
  April 27  Euler equation & energy conservation in a perfect fluid
Inviscid non-relativistic flows
  May 2  Hydrostatics; steady flows of a perfect fluid
  May 4  Vortex dynamics in a perfect fluid
  May 9  Potential flows
Waves in non-relativistic perfect fluids
  May 11  Linear sea surface waves
  May 16  Sound waves in a perfect fluid
  May 18  Shock waves
Dissipative non-relativistic flows
  May 23  Fundamental equations of the dynamics of non-relativistic Newtonian fluids
  May 25  Simple steady flows of a Newtonian fluid
                → further reading: Viscous electron fluids
  May 30  Dynamical similarityDimensional analysis and π-theorem  (slides)
  (June 1st  Surface waves on a perfect fluid revisited: linear & solitary waves)
  June 8  Flows at low Reynolds number
               → further reading: Life at low Reynolds number
  June 13  Sound waves in a Newtonian fluidSound waves in a gravity field
  June 15  Turbulence in fluids: phenomenology; Reynolds decomposition
  June 20  Statistical description of turbulence
  June 22  Equations of convective heat transfer
  June 27  Rayleigh–Bénard convection
                → further reading: Convection
Dynamics of relativistic fluid dynamics
  June 29  Fundamental equations of relativistic fluid dynamics
  July 4  Perfect relativistic fluids: fundamental equations
  July 6  Perfect relativistic fluids: non-relativistic limitexample(s) of perfect relativistic flow(s)
  July 11 & 13  Dissipative relativistic fluids;  example of dissipative relativistic flow
 
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