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Coastal & Estuarine Fluid DynamicsSYLLABUS |
| Monday 7/17 | Class Intro - Examples of estuarine and coastal environments. Basic Equations, Reynolds Averaging, Boussinesq and Hydrostatic approximations. | Geyer AM, MacCready PM 3:30 Computer Orientation (Fernald); 4:00 Library Orientation |
| Tuesday 7/18 | Tides - Frictional shallow water equations, Astronomical origin of the first 5 constituents, Tides in a Bay | MacCready AM, Geyer PM |
| Wednesday 7/19 | Tides - Stokes drift, Overtides, Tide-induced residual circulation and vorticity Discussion of the field sites (East Sound, Admiralty Inlet, and the Snohomish River estuary) |
Geyer AM, MacCready PM |
| Thursday 7/20 | AM - Trowbridge seminar 1: Turbulent boundary layers | John Trowbridge (WHOI) 8:30-10 Individual homework meetings |
| PM - Trowbridge seminar 2 : Measurement of Air-Sea Fluxes at MVCO | John Trowbridge (WHOI) 3-5 Individual homework meetings |
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| Friday 7/21 | The Bernoulli Function; Limiting the vertical length scale of turbulence because of stratification; Monin-Obukhof length |
MacCready and Geyer AM 8:30-10 Individual homework meetings |
| PM - Student presentations (9 at 20 minutes each) | Advanced students (see here for titles) 3-5 Individual homework meetings |
| Monday 7/24 | The tidal boundary layer, including rotation 2 layer stratification: g’ and long internal waves |
Geyer AM MacCready PM [3PM Field project group meetings] |
| Tuesday 7/25 | Estuaries - Examples; estuarine salt balance and Knudsen’s Relation Tidally-averaged salt and momentum balances in an estuary; classical solutions: Chatwin, Hansen and Rattray |
Geyer AM MacCready PM [10 AM Homeworks due; 3 PM Small boat class] |
| Wednesday 7/26 | Estuaries -Classical steady solutions: Diffusive, Chatwin, Hansen and Rattray Estuarine time-dependence: Spring-Neap cycles and the Horizontal Richardson Number |
MacCready AM Geyer PM |
| Thursday 7/27 | Theory of the estuarine adjustment time Field preparation |
MacCready AM Group planning and boat prep/testing |
| Friday 7/28 | Estuarine Examples Field: Centennial (Noon-4? - bag lunches?) |
Geyer AM Mooring Deployment & Survey East Sound (half day) |
| Monday 7/31 | Energy - Development of the conservation laws, and meaning of terms, Volume integrals |
MacCready AM, Geyer PM |
| Tuesday 8/1 | Energy - Application: Tides in a bay, On the importance of buoyancy flux | MacCready AM Small boat to Snohomish Noon |
| Wednesday 8/2 | Hydraulics - Homogenous flow over a bump (2-D), Extension to two layers Field: Snohomish |
Geyer AM, MacCready PM Small boat at Snohomish |
| Thursday 8/3 | Hydraulics - Digression: short surface waves and the visible effects of convergence, Form drag as an analysis tool Field: Snohomish |
MacCready Small boat returns Noon |
| Friday 8/4 | Field: Admiralty Inlet 25-hour survey | Centennial to Admiralty Inlet 7 AM (survey 11 AM 8/4 to Noon 8/5) |
| Saturday 8/5 | Field: Admiralty Inlet 25-hour survey | Centennial returns 4PM |
| Monday 8/7 | Field: day off? |
TBD |
| Tuesday 8/8 | Field: Centennial | Mooring recovery & Survey East Sound |
| Wednesday 8/9 | Turbulence, Part II - Shear-driven Mixing, Entrainment |
Geyer |
| 3 PM - Stacey seminar 1 | Mark Stacey (UC Berkeley) | |
| Thursday 8/10 | Individual research project meetings |
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| 3 PM - Stacey seminar 2 | Mark Stacey (UC Berkeley) | |
| Friday 8/11 | Individual research project meetings | |
| Saturday 8/12 | [load WRG gear at Anacortes] |
| Monday 8/14 | Wind-driven flows: Coastal upwelling - Including Coriolis, 1 and 2 layer solutions |
MacCready |
| 3 PM - Hickey seminar 1 | Barbara Hickey (UW) | |
| Tuesday 8/15 | Individual research project meetings |
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| Wednesday 8/16 | Buoyancy-driven flows: River plumes - 2-layer dynamics of coastal currents |
Geyer & MacCready AM |
| 3 PM - Hickey seminar 2 | Barbara Hickey (UW) | |
| Thursday 8/17 | Student presentations 1 |
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| Friday 8/18 | Student presentations 2 |