CEE 6360 - [Environmental Fluid Mechanics]

Spring. 3 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014. Please contact professor if interested.

E. A. Cowen.

Covers analytic and modeling perspectives of environmental flows; mechanics of layered and continuously stratified fluids: internal waves, density currents, baroclinic motions, and turbulence; jets and plumes and their behavior in the environment; turbulent diffusion, shear flow dispersion, and wave-induced mixing processes; and applications to mixing processes in rivers, lakes, estuaries, and the coastal ocean.