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Syllabus – posted 16 Dec 2019
Topics – posted 12 Dec 2019
Problem Set I — due 23 Jan 2020
Problem Set II — due TBA
Problem Set III — due TBA
Problem Set IV — due at Last Class – Hard Deadline
Problem Set V — practice for oral Final; not graded
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 Equation — posted 04 February 2019
Fournier and Frisch on Burgers Dynamics — posted 04 February 2019
Review of 2-D Turbulence: Boffetta and Ecke — posted 04 February 2019
Conformal Invariance in 2-D Turbulence — posted 14 February 2019
Pringle: Accretion disks — posted 31 January 2019
Lynden–Bell and Pringle: Viscous accretion — posted 31 January 2019
Balbus and Hawley: Magneto-rotation instability and accretion — posted 31 January 2019
Armitage: Physics of protoplanetary disks — posted 31 January 2019
Armitage: On the formation of planetary systems — posted 31 January 2019
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
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 Model — posted 12 March 2018
Introduction to Complex Fluids — posted 12 March 2018