Academic Catalog

MASC541 MIXING AND DIFFUSION PROCESSES

Course Code: 9500541
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

Convection, diffusion and dispersion of conservative and non-conservative substances in the ocean and the atmosphere. Turbulent diffusion of momentum, and scalar properties, convection in stratified fluids, and mixing length theories. Surface mixed layers in the atmosphere and the ocean, entrainment and mixing layer development, radiative and turbulent transfer of heat, momentum, buoyancy and moisture at the surface.