PHY 688: Astrophysical Fluids and Plasmas

PHY 688: (Special Topics in Astro) Astrophysical Fluids and Plasmas
Instructor: Michael Zingale, michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu
Mondays/Wednesdays, 10:00-11:20am

ASTROPHYSICAL FLUIDS AND PLASMAS
a weekly graduate course focusing on the following topics:

- the equations of hydrodynamics
- viscous flows
- gas dynamics
- instabilities
- turbulence
- numerical methods for hydrodynamics
- reactive flows
- self-gravitating and rotation flows
- introduction to MHD

Course Logistics:

- first half of the course will be analytic discussions with applications to astro

- first quarter of the class will focus on numerical methods for hydro

- traditional problem set + computational projects

- student presentation on related course topic