Part III Lab Demonstrations:
Week-by-Week Outline
Lent 2013

Outline as pdf

***This outline is a draft and is subject to change on a week-by-week basis***

Sessions on Thursdays at 2:00.

Session 1 (23 January):

Introduction

Water bombs

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Marangoni jet boats

Session 2 (30 January):

Deep water waves

Interfacial waves

Solitary waves and tsunami

Internal gravity waves

Hydraulics

Session 3 (6 February):

Spin-up

Taylor columns

Internal lee waves

Rossby waves

Inertial waves

Session 4 (13 February):

Thermal convection

Hadley circulation

Baroclinic instability

Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Disintegrating snow balls

Session 5 (20 February):

Salt fingers

Farraday waves (fluid and particles)

Alien custard

Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (fluid and particles)

Session 6 (27 February):

Dam break problem

Gravity current

Intrusion

Turbidity current

Axisymmetric gravity current

Baroclinic instability

Session 7 (6 March):

Capillary jet

Jets

Thermals

Plumes

Plume in stratified environment

Natural ventilation

Non-Newtonian and skirted bubbles

Brinicle

Session 8 (13 March):

Boycott effect

Droplets & splashes

Angles of repose & max stability

Granular collapse

Avalanches

Do not rely on this list: what will actually be demonstrated on a given week depends on many things, including the availability of equipment, people, etc., and is subject to change without notice! The above list is (roughly) what was demonstrated in Lent 2012.

All demonstrations begin in the Pavilion A Laboratory beneath the serving area of the Common Room in CMS. Enter through corridor on northern side of MR2.

Demonstrations start at 2:00 and typically last between 60 and 80 minutes, but you are welcome to stay longer to explore further aspects of the flows considered.