Physics 4205/6313
Introduction to Fluid Dynamics

• Instructor: Dr. Iakov Afanassiev
• Office: Physics C-4065
• email: afanai @mun.ca

• Course Times: TBD
• Office Hours: TBD
• Web Page: http://www.physics.mun.ca/~yakov

Evaluation Scheme for P4205:

• Mid-Term 25%  
• Assignments 15%  
• Research Paper 10% - due last week of the term
• Oral Presentation 10% - last week of the term
• Final 40%

Evaluation Scheme for P6313:

• Assignments 20%  
• Research Paper 60%  
• Oral Presentation 20%  

Textbook:

• P.K. Kundu, Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, San Diego (1990)

Reference Books:

• G.K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1992)
• D.J. Acheson, Elementary Fluid Dynamics, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1990)
• R.L. Panton, Incompressible Flow, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1996)
• S. Pond and G.L. Pickard, Introductory Dynamical Oceanography, Pergamon, Oxford (1983)

Course Outline:

• I Introduction
• II Kinematics
• III Conservation Laws
• IV Vorticity Dynamics
• V Irrotational Flow
• VI Gravity Waves