Physics 216/116 | Winter 2020

Course Handouts

This page was last updated 02 Mar 2020.


Course Handouts

Syllabusposted 16 Dec 2019

Topicsposted 12 Dec 2019


Homework Problem Sets

Problem Set Idue 23 Jan 2020

Problem Set IIdue TBA

Problem Set IIIdue TBA

Problem Set IVdue at Last Class – Hard Deadline

Problem Set Vpractice for oral Final; not graded


Supplemental Material

Purcell: Life at Low Reynolds Number - posted 25 January 2017

Original paper on Rayleigh-Taylor Instability by G.I. Taylor, 1950 - posted 23 January 2017

Overview of Rayleigh-Taylor Phenomena, D.H. Sharp - old but good review - posted 23 January 2017

OV of Convection Phenomena (oldie but goodie) - Berge and Dubois - posted 25 January 2017

Similarities of Rotation and Stratification - Veronis - posted 25 January 2017

Recent Results in Convection - (circa 2000) - Bodenschatz - posted 25 January 2017

Turner: Double Diffusive Convection - posted 27 January 2017

Proctor and Chapman: Fixed Flux Convection - posted 27 January 2017

D. Gough on Mixing Length Theory - posted 15 February 2018

Barenblatt on Asymptotics of the Blasius Problem - posted 3 February 2017

Kraichnan 59-First Normalized Turbulence Theory-Basic DIA Paper - posted 22 February 2017

Kraichnan 61-Random Coupling Model and Realizability - posted 22 February 2017

Kraichnan 76-Test Field Model for Eddy Viscosity - posted 22 February 2017

Hunt 90-Rapid Distortion Theory - posted 22 February 2017

Local and Non-local Interaction - Lavel, et al., 2001 - posted 22 February 2017

FNS 77-Forced Burgers Turbulence - posted 22 February 2017

Barenblatt on Modified Heat Equation - posted 23 February 2017

Scalar Turbulence - posted 3 March 2017

Particles and Fields in Turbulence - posted 3 March 2017

KPZ Equationposted 04 February 2019

Fournier and Frisch on Burgers Dynamicsposted 04 February 2019

Review of 2-D Turbulence: Boffetta and Eckeposted 04 February 2019

Conformal Invariance in 2-D Turbulenceposted 14 February 2019


Module on Fluid Dynamics of Disks and Accretion

Pringle: Accretion disksposted 31 January 2019

Lynden–Bell and Pringle: Viscous accretionposted 31 January 2019

Balbus and Hawley: Magneto-rotation instability and accretionposted 31 January 2019

Armitage: Physics of protoplanetary disksposted 31 January 2019

Armitage: On the formation of planetary systemsposted 31 January 2019


Module on 2D/GFD Turbulence

Ertel's Theorem and Potential Vorticity - Muller 95 - posted 21 February 2017

A GFD Survival Kit - posted 21 February 2017

Mini Course on GFD - posted 21 February 2017

Kraichnan 67-Dual Cascade - posted 8 March 2017

Kraichnan-Montgomery Review of 2D Turbulence - posted 8 March 2017

Holloway-Rossby Wave Interaction - posted 8 March 2017

Hasegawa-Mima-Drift Wave Model - posted 8 March 2017

McWilliams 84-Emergence Isolated Vortex - posted 8 March 2017

Rhines-Waves and Turbulence on Beat Plane - posted 8 March 2017

Weiss-Enstrophy Transfer in 2D - posted 8 March 2017

3/2 Law for Inverse Cascade - posted 9 March 2017

Andrews and McIntyre: Theory Waves on Flow - posted 17 March 2017


Module on Drag Reduction by Polymers

Virk (1975): "Review of Drag Reduction Phenomenology"posted 08 March 2018

Lumley (1977): "Drag Reduction in Polymer and Two Phase Flows"posted 08 March 2018

de Gennes (1986): "Scaling Theory of Drag Reduction"posted 08 March 2018

Tabor and de Gennes (1986): "A Scaling Theory of Drag Reduction"posted 08 March 2018

Ogilvie, Proctor (2003): "Viscoelasticity and MHD"posted 08 March 2018

Benzi, de Angelis, L'vov, et al. (2006): "Maximal Drag Reduction Asymptote"posted 08 March 2018

Denn (1990): "Issues in Viscoelastic Flow"posted 08 March 2018

Hinch Lecture on Oldroyd-B Modelposted 12 March 2018

Introduction to Complex Fluidsposted 12 March 2018