Part III Lab Demonstrations:
Week-by-Week Outline
Lent 2012

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 (19 January):

+      Introduction

+      Water bombs

+      Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

+      Marangoni jet boats

Session 2 (26 January):

+      Deep water waves

+      Interfacial waves

+      Solitary waves and tsunami

+      Internal gravity waves

+      Hydraulics

Session 3 (2 February):

+      Taylor columns

+      Spin-up

+      Thermal convection

+      Hadley circulation

Session 4 (9 February):

+      Salt fingers

+      Porous media

+      Rayleigh-Taylor instability

+      Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

+      Farraday waves

+      Alien custard

Session 5 (16 February):

+      Vortex rings

+      Gravity currents

+      Intrusions

+      Carbon sequestration

+      Ice shelves

+      Plumes & jets

+      Thermals

Session 6 (23 February):

+      Turbulence

+      Turbulence at an interface

+      Stratified turbulence

+      Rotating turbulence

Session 7 (1 March):

+      Turbidity currents

+      Avalanches & collapses

+      Particle splashes

+      Particle-laden jets

Session 8 (8 March):

+      Capillary jets

+      Colliding jets

+      Levitating droplets

+      Collapsible tubes

+      Predicting the weather

 

 

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 about one hour, but you are welcome to stay longer to explore further aspects of the flows considered.