Description
This is a 2-credit course, a whirlwind tour of fluids and plasmas as applied to astrophysical problems.
General Information
AA 363
Books:
1) The Physics of Fluids & Plasmas: An Introduction for Astrophysicists by A. Rai Choudhuri
2) Fluid Mechanics by Landau & Lifschitz
3) An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by Batchelor
4) Elementary Fluid Dynamics by Acheson
5) Applications of Classical Physics by Blandford & Thorne
6) Plasma Physics for Astrophysics by Kulsrud
Useful online resources:
Blandford & Thorne's chapters: http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2011/
Prasad Subramanian's course page with a link to videos and articles:
http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~p.subramanian/FluidsSpring2013.html
National Committee of Fluid Mechanics Films:
http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html
Some more links:
http://user.engineering.uiowa.edu/~cfd/referenc/links.html
A broad intro to plasmas by Greg Hammett:
http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/talks/2008/NUF_08_Intro_lect.pdf
1) The Physics of Fluids & Plasmas: An Introduction for Astrophysicists by A. Rai Choudhuri
2) Fluid Mechanics by Landau & Lifschitz
3) An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by Batchelor
4) Elementary Fluid Dynamics by Acheson
5) Applications of Classical Physics by Blandford & Thorne
6) Plasma Physics for Astrophysics by Kulsrud
Useful online resources:
Blandford & Thorne's chapters: http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2011/
Prasad Subramanian's course page with a link to videos and articles:
http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~p.subramanian/FluidsSpring2013.html
National Committee of Fluid Mechanics Films:
http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html
Some more links:
http://user.engineering.uiowa.edu/~cfd/referenc/links.html
A broad intro to plasmas by Greg Hammett:
http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/talks/2008/NUF_08_Intro_lect.pdf
Lecture Hall-I Physics Department
Instructor: Prateek Sharma, D2-08
TA: Deovrat Prasad, D2-04
TA: Deovrat Prasad, D2-04
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