Environmental Fluid Mechanics I

3 credits · Graduate

Fundamental fluid mechanics with application to the environment. Analytical solutions and numerical modeling of advection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations, with a focus on understanding both the numerical techniques needed to predict environmental flow and transport and the underlying physical processes described by the mathematical equations. Fluid kinematics, scalar transport, numerical error and stability analysis, scaling analysis, channel flows, Stokes flows, and introduction to turbulence.