For more information about this meeting, contact Yakov Pesin.
| Title: | Vortices and two-dimensional fluid motion |
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| Seminar: | Department of Mathematics Colloquium |
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| Speaker: | Eugene Wayne, Department of Mathematics, Boston University |
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| Abstract: |
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| The study of fluid motions is of obvious importance for a host of applications ranging in scale from the microscopic to the atmospheric. Since we live in a three-dimensional world it may be less obvious why the understanding of two-dimensional fluid flows is of interest. However, in many applications, like the atmosphere or the ocean, the fluid domain is much smaller in one direction than in the other two
-- and also smaller than the typical size of features of interest in the fluid. In such circumstances, a two-dimensional approximation to the fluid motion can provide very accurate insights into the behavior of the physical system. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB114 |
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| Date: | 03 / 15 / 2012 |
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| Time: | 04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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