Thermal and Statistical Aspects of Fluid Dynamics
Description
Section 1 (Alexei)
- classical mechanics
- basic statistical properties
- thermodynamic potentials
- Gibbs distribution and ideal gas
- phases and reactions
- ideal fluid dynamics
- thermal aspects of fluid flows
- multicomponent and multi-phase flows
- Questions
Class notes for section 1
Section 2 (Simon)
- Paradoxical mixing
- Ehrenfest Lottery (video 1, video 2)
- Boltzmann equation
- H-Theorem
- Hydrodynamics
- Vortex gas and negative temperature
- Exercises
- Van der Waals gas
- Second law and subsystems: a simplified framework
- Kac Ring model
- The hour glass model
- Projects
Class notes for section 2