TEACHING

         Fall term:   18.02A Calculus   

         Fall term:   18.355 Fluid Mechanics    Prerequisite: undergraduate fluid mechanics course or permission of instructor

            Geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics; plumes and gravity currents; rotating fluid dynamics;
            stratified fluids; viscous flows; drops and bubbles; flow in porous media; surface-tension driven flows.
           
 



 
         Frequently:  18.075 Advanced Calculus for Engineers I    Prerequisite: 18.03

            Functions of a complex variable; calculus of residues; Sturm-Liouville theory;
            expansion in series of orthogonal functions, including Fourier series; PDEs; separation of variables; boundary value problems.
 
         Spring 2001:   18.997 Rotating Flows    Prerequisite: graduate fluid mechanics course

            The fundamentals of rotating flows. Vorticity theory, geostrophy, rotating boundary layers, Ekman compatibility conditions, spin-up,
            source-sink flows, particle motion in rotating flows, inertial waves, rotating plumes and gravity currents, the stability of rotating flows.
            Text: H.P. Greenspan's The theory of rotating flows.
 
         Other teaching:

            I am also involved in the IFLUIDS Program and have contributed the Surface Tension Module to
            1.63J/2.21J Fluid Dynamics of the Environment.

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