Fluid Dynamics
IUCAA - NCRA Graduate School
16 October - 15 December 2023
News
- Lectures: Tuesday 11:30-12:30, Thursday 11:30-12:30 and Friday 11:30-12:30.
Things to remember:
- To contact me any time, remember that my office phone number is (020) 25719270. In case you want to contact me and do not find me in office, send me an email to tirth-at-ncra-dot-tifr-dot-res-dot-in.
- In case you need to discuss, please feel free to meet me in the office at NCRA. You can give me a call before coming to make sure I am in the office.
- A Google Classroom has been set up for the course where various material will be shared. The link will be shared with students who are taking the course for credits.
- The course is supposed to be consisting of 14 lectures. We expect the lectures to be over by 1 December.
- In case we miss any lectures because of holidays or other reasons, we will make up for them by taking extra lectures at some other time. This is to ensure that all the lectures are over by the above date.
- There will be two assignments and one final examination which will be used for evaluating the course.
- The assignments would be distributed to you, tentatively, on 27 October and 10 November, respectively. You will get about one week to return them back. The assignments will have to be scanned (in PDF format) and uploaded to the Google Classroom.
- The final examination is tentatively scheduled on 12 December (Tuesday) 10:00 - 13:00. During the examination, you will be allowed to consult the lecture notes you have prepared.
- The evaluation procedure for the course is as follows: your final grade will be computed giving 50% weightage to the final exam and 50% to the assignments.
Reading List:
Most of this course is based on the following two books:
- Arnab Rai Choudhuri, The Physics of Fluids and Plasmas: An Introduction for Astrophysicists
- Cathie Clarke & Bob Carswell, Principles of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
There are many other excellent textbooks on the subject. Some of them which were used in preparing the course material are:
- T. Padmanabhan, Theoretical Astrophysics (Volume I: Astrophysical Processes), Chapters 8 and 9
- Frank H. Shu, The Physics of Astrophysics (Volume II: Gas Dynamics)