Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: Graduate status and ME EN 6700 or Instructor Permission.
Description
Introduction to environmental fluid mechanics focusing primarily on micro meteorological processes occurring in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Covers: surface energy budget, basic thermodynamics relationships, basic equations of motion & energy, including important simplifications relating to rotation & atmospheric stability turbulence in the ADL (including basic statistics and spectral analysis(, ABL similarity theory and dispersion processes. Projects involve utilizing real atmospheric boundary layer data sets.