Thermal and Statistical Aspects of Fluid Dynamics

Description

Section 1 (Alexei)

  1. classical mechanics
  2. basic statistical properties
  3. thermodynamic potentials
  4. Gibbs distribution and ideal gas
  5. phases and reactions
  6. ideal fluid dynamics
  7. thermal aspects of fluid flows
  8. multicomponent and multi-phase flows
  9. Questions

Class notes for section 1

Section 2 (Simon)

  1. Paradoxical mixing
  2. Ehrenfest Lottery (video 1, video 2)
  3. Boltzmann equation
  4. H-Theorem
  5. Hydrodynamics
  6. Vortex gas and negative temperature
  7. Exercises
    1. Van der Waals gas
    2. Second law and subsystems: a simplified framework
    3. Kac Ring model
    4. The hour glass model
  8. Projects

Class notes for section 2