Hydrodynamics





Time/place: Lecture (eKVV):  Tue 08:30-10:00 (D6-135), Wed 08:30-10:00 (D6-135)
Tutorials (eKVV):  Wed 14:00-16:00 (D6-135)

Instructor: Nicolas Borghini (borghini at physik dot uni-bielefeld dot de) E6-123
Tutor:  Renata Krupczak
 
Oral exam, registration at the end of the semester

Homepage:   http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~borghini/Teaching/Hydrodynamics
 
News: First lecture: Tuesday, April 14
 
Prerequisites: Classical mechanics, Special Relativity, Thermodynamics
 
Literature: * Faber: Fluid dynamics for physicists
* Fließbach: Lehrbuch zur theoretischen Physik: Band I: Mechanik
* Guyon, Hulin, Petit, Mitescu: Physical hydrodynamics
* Landau & Lifshitz: Course of theoretical physics: Vol. 6: Hydrodynamics
* Rezzolla & Zanotti: Relativistic hydrodynamics  (online access,  list of corrections)
* Rieutord: Fluid dynamics
 
Planned content:   April 14 Organization. Intro
 
- Basic concepts of continuum mechanics: continuum hypothesis; local thermodynamic equilibrium; mechanical stress
- Kinematics of deformable bodies: Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions; decomposition of motion
- Conservation laws in non-relativistic fluids: Reynolds transport theorem; conservation of mass, linear momentum, energy
- Inviscid non-relativistic flows: hydrostatics; simple stationary flows; vortex dynamics; potential flows; waves
- Dissipative non-relativistic flows: simple stationary flows; dimensional analysis; flows at low Reynolds number; convective flows; turbulent flows
- Dynamics of relativistic fluids: conservation laws; simple solutions
- (time permitting) Hydrodynamic fluctuations / Numerical hydrodynamics / Stability
 
Links: * Illustrative videos by the (US) National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films; you can also check the accompanying film notes
* Further fluid mechanics movies are available here
* Online version of the NIST Handbook of mathematical functions