MATH 672 - Hydrodynamic Stability - Spring 2015
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: MATHÂ 601 or equivalent; MATHÂ 605 or equivalent.
Sections
This course is not taught in Spring 2015.