Hydrodynamics





Time/place: Lecture (eKVV):  Tue 10:00-12:00 (D6-135), Wed 08:30-10:00 (D6-135)
Tutorials (eKVV):  Mon 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
list of exam dates

Homepage:   http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~borghini/Teaching/Hydrodynamics
 
News: Contact N.B. to set up the date of your exam!
Outcome of the evaluation
 
Prerequisites: Classical mechanics, Special Relativity, Thermodynamics & Statistical physics
(Theoretische Physik I, II, III)
 
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
 
Content: → all pages in a single file  [version of July 16]
Basic notions on continuous media
  April 9  Continuum hypothesis; local thermodynamic equilibrium; Lagrangian description
  April 10  Eulerian description; mechanical stress
  April 16 & 17  Kinematics of deformable bodies
Fundamental equations of non-relativistic fluid dynamics
  April 23  Reynolds transport theorem; conservation of mass
  April 24  Perfect fluids: Euler equation
  April 30  Newtonian fluids: Navier–Stokes equation; energy & entropy balance equations in fluids
Simple inviscid non-relativistic flows
  May 7 & 8  Hydrostatics; Bernoulli equation
  May 8  Vortex dynamics in perfect fluids
  May 14  Potential flows
Non-relativistic flows of Newtonian fluids
  May 15 & 21  Simple steady flows of a Newtonian fluid
                → further reading: Viscous electron fluids
  May 21  Dynamical similarity
  May 22  Dimensional analysis  (slides)
  May 28  Flows at low Reynolds number
                → further reading: Life at low Reynolds number
Waves in non-relativistic fluids
  May 29  Sound waves
  June 4  Shock waves
  June 5  Linear sea surface waves
  June 11  Sound waves in a gravity field. A few words on hydrodynamic instabilities
Non-relativistic flows of Newtonian fluids (2)
  June 12  Turbulence in fluids: phenomenology; Reynolds decomposition
  June 18  Statistical description of turbulence
  June 19  Convective heat transfer; Rayleigh–Bénard convection
Dynamics of relativistic fluids
  June 25  Fundamental equations of relativistic fluid dynamics
  June 26  Perfect relativistic fluids: equations of motion
  July 2  Perfect relativistic fluids: non-relativistic limit; interlude: curvilinear coordinates
  July 3  Example of perfect relativistic flow
  July 9  Dissipative relativistic fluids: dissipative currents; Eckart & Landau frames
  July 10  Dissipative relativistic fluids: general equations of motions; first order dissipative fluids
  July 16  Second order dissipative fluids; example of dissipative relativistic flow
  July 17  A few ideas on numerical (Eulerian) hydrodynamics
 
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