Academic Catalog

MASC531 DYNAMIC OCEANOGRAPHY-I FLUID DYNAMICS

Course Code: 9500531
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Graduate School Of Marine Sciences
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. EMÝN ÖZSOY
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Basic review of calculus, physical properties of fluids, kinematics of the flow field, conservation of mass, forces and deformations in a moving fluid, stress and rate of strain tensors, derivation of the equations of motion, transformation to rotating earth, Bernoulli theorem, vorticity dynamics, viscous and irrotational flow examples for incompressible homogeneous fluids.