New course MATH5185 Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics taught by Royal Society Fellows, Herbert Huppert & Trevor McDougall
Published on the 06 Feb 2013
MATH5185 Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics is an exciting new course commencing in the School of Mathematics and Statistics in Semester 1, 2013. The lectures will present the fundamentals of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics in the context of fluid flow in the environment, instilling the major principles and techniques used in solving nonlinear differential systems.
MATH5185 Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics will be taught by two Distinguished Professors, Herbert Huppert and Trevor McDougall, both Fellows of the Royal Society of London.
Topics covered include:
- Basic concepts and mathematics of fluid mechanics
- Dynamics
- Parallel viscous flow
- Potential flows
- Geophysical Flows
- The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
- Keeping track of “heat” and salt in a turbulent ocean
- Accurately conserving “heat” in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system
Assumed knowledge: Differential equations, several variable calculus.
No prior knowledge of fluid dynamics or thermodynamics is assumed, and these fields are introduced and illustrated with examples that are part of common experience.
Available to: Masters, Honours and final year Undergraduate students with the permission of your Program Authority.
About the lecturers:
Distinguished Professor Herbert Huppert
As the world’s oldest and most esteemed science academy, The Royal Society boasts a long list of notable former Fellows, such as Sir Isaac Newton, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Charles Darwin. Professor Huppert was added to that prestigious list in 1987. A Distinguished Professor at UNSW, he is also Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Cambridge. Professor Huppert has amassed numerous prominent awards during his career, including a Murchison Medal from the London Geological Society.
Scientia Professor Trevor McDougall
One of Australia’s most-awarded scientists, Scientia Professor McDougall also joined the ranks of science greats with a 2012 invitation as a Fellow of The Royal Society. Acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent oceanographers, Sci/Professor McDougall was the first Australian recipient of the Prince Albert I Medal, awarded in 2011 by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1997.
Interested in this course?
Contact:
Julie Hebblewhite
Student Services, UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics
Room: RC-3088; Phone: 02 9385 7053
Email: j.hebblewhite@unsw.edu.au