Department of Mathematics
Spring 2002

MATH 462 - Fluid Dynamics

Class Webpage

Library Resources
books & lecture notes (reserve list)
special thanks to Leslie & Tatiana for maintaining these notes

The Last Week:

25 March
vortex demo (lvdemo.m)
subroutines (lvdemo_ode.m), (lvdemo_vel4quiv.m), (lvdemo_vel4quiv.m), (lvdemo_visinfluence.m), (lvdemo_dist.m)
thanks to Colin Macdonald for developing these demos

History:

week 0: organizational stuff
week 1: introduction & PDEs
week 2: euler equations of motion
week 3: simple flows
week 4: incompressibility & irrotationality
week 5: potential flow
week 6: airfoils
week 7: pond waves
week 8: water waves
week 9: sound & viscosity
week 10: more viscosity
week 11: viscosity & vorticity

Images & Interest:

volcanic smoke ring: www.rambocam.com/etna08.html

smoke rings: www.hheatheredelmangallery.com/artists/calder_alexander_00.htm

bubble rings: http://www.earthtrust.org/delrings.html

smoke rings
vortex can