Physics 6323
Stability Theory

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

• Course Times: TR 16.00-17.15 Room C3067
• Office Hours: TR 9:15-11:00
• Web Page: http://www.physics.mun.ca/ ~ yakov

Tentative Evaluation Scheme:

• Assignments 40% 
• Project Paper 40%
• Presentation 20%

Textbook:

is not assigned for this course

Reference Books:

• G.K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1992)
• P.G. Drazin, Hydrodynamic stability, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1981)
• P.K. Kundu and I.M. Cohen, Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, San Diego (2002)
• J.S. Turner, Buoyancy effects in fluids, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1973)

Course Outline:

• Introduction. Method of normal modes
• Thermal instability. Double diffusion
• Centrifugal instability
• Kelvin Helmholtz instability
• Barotropic instability in GFD
• Baroclinic instability in GFD
• Turbulence