University Catalog 2014-2015

University of Colorado Boulder

ATOC-5410 (3) Fluid Instabilities, Waves, and Turbulence

Nonlinear waves and instabilities; wave-mean and wave-wave interactions, resonant triads; secondary instability and transition to turbulence; diagnosis, modeling, and parameterization of turbulent flows in geophysics and astrophysics. Prereq., ASTR 5120, ATOC 5060, or 5400. Same as ASTR 5410.