FLUID FLOW AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES.

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

The course will cover from among the following topics: fluid flow in fractured rocks, groundwater flow, pipe and channel flow, buoyancy driven flows, low vs. high Reynolds number flow, inviscid and viscous flow, gravity currents, stratified flow, jets and plumes, flow in rotating fluids, advective-dispersive transport, dynamical similarity and dimensional analysis, dynamical chaos. For each topic conceptual descriptions of the phenomenon in question will be discussed and the governing conservation laws, which are in the form of partial differential equations, will be explained on the basis of these conceptual models. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: EEPS 432 . Recommended Prerequisite(s): Calculus and basic familiarity with differential equations. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for EEPS 632 if student has credit for EEPS 432 /ESCI 418/ESCI 618.