Instructor(s)
Prof. Glenn Flierl
Prof. Raffaele Ferrari
MIT Course Number
12.820
As Taught In
Spring 2007
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course features a movie "Fluid Dynamics Film - Turbulence" and simulations "Two-dimensional Flow around an Obstacle" about turbulence in the study materials section.
Course Description
This course presents the phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scope ranges from centimeter to planetary scale motions. The regimes of turbulence include homogeneous isotropic three dimensional turbulence, convection, quasi-geostrophic turbulence, shallow water turbulence, baroclinic turbulence, macroturbulence in the ocean and atmosphere.
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