Lecture Course on Fluid Instabilities

(by Chirag Kalelkar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur)

Date:  October 9-16, 2016

Time:  3.30 pm to 5.00 pm

Venue: Lecture Hall Complex, Room LHC-101, IISER Pune

Syllabus:

•  Dimensionless quantities, boundary conditions and preliminaries
•  Linear stability analysis
•  Thermal instability: Rayleigh-Benard
•  Interfacial instability: Rayleigh-Taylor, Saffman-Taylor, Rayleigh-Plateau
•  Shear instability: Kelvin-Helmholtz
•  Centrifugal instability: Taylor-Couette
•  Parametric instability: Faraday

Live experiments illustrating various instabilities will be shown.

Pre-requisite: Newtonian fluid dynamics

Registration: Please write to noteuclid@gmail.com (mention academic status and affiliation)