Hydrodynamic Stability

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 520. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) An introduction to the theory of hydrodynamic stability with applications to stability of thermal flows, rotating and curved flows, wallbounded and free shear flows. Development of the asymptotic theory of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation. Review of the fundamental concepts and current work in nonlinear theory of hydrodynamic stability.