MASC549 STRATIFIED FLUIDS
| Course Code: |
9500549 |
| 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
Density stratification in rotating and non-rotating fluids, conservation laws, thermodynamic and state equations, Boussinesq and quasigeostrophic approximation. Internal waves, instability theories, turbulent shear flows, buoyant, thermal and thermohaline convection mechanisms. Plumes, thermals, convection cells, salt finger and diffusive types of double-diffusive transport, fronts and intrusions.
