ASTR 4130 - Fluid Dynamics with Astrophysical Applications

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: MATH 2641, MATH 2652, and PHYS 3550, each with a C or higher, or consent of instructor.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
(Same as PHYS 4130.) An introduction to fluid dynamics including viscosity, diffusion, vorticity, turbulence, convection, and instabilities. Advanced topics of chemically reactive flows, boundary layers, relativistic flows, particle-fluid interactions, and shocks will be discussed and applied to diverse astrophysical settings including stellar oscillations and pulsations and galactic dynamics. Students should have basic familiarity with computational methods.