• 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.