Hydrodynamic Stability

Catalog description

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Instability mechanisms; instability of interfacial and free surface flows; thermal instability, centrifugal instability, instability of inviscid and viscous parallel shear flows; fundamental concepts and applications of nonlinear instability; the onset of turbulence; various transitions to turbulence. Prerequisites: MATH 601 or equivalent; MATH 605 or equivalent.