MASC537 TURBULENCE
| Course Code: |
9500537 |
| 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: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Turbulent motions, equations of motion, turbulent energy, Reynolds stress, energy flow, inhomogeneous fluids, conservation of scalar properties, Richardson number. Fundamentals of boundary layer theory, turbulent boundary layers, similarity theory and statistics. Effects of wall roughness, viscous sub-layers and turbulent skin friction. Oceanic and atmospheric mixed layer dynamics.
