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Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
C202
CCN: 22702
Instructor: Chung-Pei Ma
Time & Location:
MW 10:00 - 11:30AM 501B Campbell Hall
Units:
4
Principles of gas dynamics, self-gravitating fluids, magnetohydrodynamics and elementary kinetic theory. Aspects of convection, fluid oscillations, linear instabilities, spiral density waves, shock waves, turbulence, accretion disks, stellar winds, and jets.