University Catalog 2014-2015

University of Colorado Boulder

CVEN-5313 (3) Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Analysis of viscous incompressible flows, with first-principle solutions for environmental fluid flows in oceans, rivers, lakes and the atmosphere. Topics include the Navier-Stokes equations, kinematics, vorticity dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and density stratification. Department enforced prereqs., APPM 2350, APPM 2360, and CVEN 3313. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.