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| Instructor: | Prof. Tina Katopodes Chow |
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Lectures: |
MWF 11am-12pm, 212 O'Brien Hall |
| Office hours: | TBA, 621 Davis Hall |
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Fluid mechanics of the natural water and air environment. Flux equation analyses; unsteady free surface flow; stratified flow; Navier-Stokes equations; boundary layers, jets and plumes; turbulence, Reynolds equations, turbulence modeling; mixing, diffusion, dispersion, and contaminant transport; geophysical flows in atmosphere and ocean; steady and unsteady flow in porous media. Application to environmentally sensitive flows in surface and groundwater and in lower atmosphere.
Prerequisites: 100; Mathematics 53, 54 or equivalents. |
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Course syllabus: |
pdf file |
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Course textbook: |
Fluid Mechanics, 4th edition, by Kundu and Cohen |
| Full course website: | bspace.berkeley.edu (for enrolled students) |