MATH 6285 - Mathematical Fluid Dynamics

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Math 6265 or equivalent.
Description
This course focuses on the basic ideas of fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on rigorous treatment of fundamentals and the mathematical developments and issues. It explores the background and motivation for recent mathematical and numerical work on the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, and presents a mathematically intensive investigation of various model equations of fluid dynamics, potential flow, theory of boundary layers and lubrication theory.