Courses I currently teach
- Statistical (Applied) Signal Processing
Click here to go to course website.
- Cosmology
Click here to go to course website.
- Epoch of Reionization Physics Course
Click here to go to course website.
Previous Courses
- Astrophysical Hydrodynamic
(click here to download Lectures PDF)
The course's purpose is cover the basic physics of fluids
especially the part that is relevant for astrophysical systems. The
topics that will be covered in the course are:
- Ideal fluids (the
fluid approx., the continuity & Euler equations, isentropic fluids,
vorticity & its equation, Bernoulli's equation, Kelvin's circulation
theorem, hydrostatic fluids, compressible and incompressible
fluids. The MHD approximation.
- Simple astrophyscial applications
(stellar models and oscillations)
- Sound waves (wave equation, sound
speed, Mach number)
- Hydrodynamical Instabilities: Kelvin-Helmholtz
instability, Rayleigh Taylor Ins., Thermal Instability, Gravitational
Intability, ...
- Introduction to Supersonic Flow: Shock tube,
Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions, Rayleigh's line, Hugoniot curve,
density, and pressure, radratios across a shock, shock speed.
- Viscous fluids: the Navier-Stokes equation, viscosity coefficients,
energy disppation in incompressible fluids, examples of viscous flow,
Reynolds number, similarity law.
- Turbulence: similarity solutions,
weak fully developed turbulence, Kolmogorov spectrum.
I will not use a specific book in the course but there are a number of
books that could be used to help with the course.
-
Principles of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
Cambirdge University Press
Authors: C. Clarke and B. Carswell
-
Astrophysical Flows
Cambridge University Press
Authors: J. Pringle and A. King
-
Fluid Mechanics (2nd edition)
Volume 6 of Course of Theoretical Physics
Authors: L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz
Older Courses (For description please Click Here )
- Asrtophysics A (Radiative Processes)
- Asrtophysics B (Quantum Physics of atoms and molecules & Hydrodynamics)
- Statstical Methods in Astrophysics
Go Back to My Main Home Page
Go to Kapteyn
Institute Home Page
|