Instructor:

Gerard Roe

Office: JHN 361

Email: gerard@ess.washington.edu

Phone: 206-697-3298

Office hours:

Whenever...

Please work together as much as you like. This year (2012) the HWs are new to me too, so we are all in this together!

Textbook (none, but some suggestions below),

This is by far the best and worth the investment:

Kundu, P.K., Fluid Mechanics, 5th ed., 2011 - the Tesla, a beautiful work of pedagogy

Other:-

Batchelor, G.K.. Fluid Dynamics, 1967 - The Bentley, old school perfection.

Acheson, D.J., Elementary Fluid Dynamics, 1990 - The Prius, very accessible.

Tritton, D.J., Physical Fluid Dynamics 2nd ed. - The Accord, reliable.

Pedlosky Notes. These are the lecture notes that will form the basis of the course. They are comprehensive, and a beautiful exposition of fluid dynamics as it relates to geophysical flows. Joe Pedlosky has taught the introductory graduate fluid dynamics course, 12.800, at MIT and WHOI for many years.  He is correctly regarded as arguably the leading fluid dynamicist in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. For at least a while, videos of his lectures can be found here.

Booker notes. These will be a secondary resource for the whole course.  The notes were written by Prof. John Booker, and are great. They are extremely clear and cover the essence of the material, with valuable asides. Although they are very comprehensive and could easily have been converted into a textbook, they are class notes, so expect typos here and there. I am gradually converting them to editable latex files, so please do let me know when you find errors..

Vorticity Notes. These are available on the web and are based on a course taught by Geoff Vallis and Isaac Held at Princeton. These are two exceptional scientists and the material is presented extremely clearly.

Others books are also useful references:

Batchelor, G.K., An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics (Cambridge Mathematical Library)

    Equal to Tritton, a very good textbook that will always be useful

Acheson, D.J., Elementary Fluid Dynamics (Oxford Applied Mathematics & Computing Science Series)

For ocean-specific content, this online textbook is good:

(http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_textbook/contents.html)

Grades(ish):

This is an upper division and graduate course, so I trust you. There will be approximately one homework a week (33%); a midterm (33%); and a final (33%).