Graduate Student Colloquium
Roman Shvydkoy
UIC
Conservation laws of fluid dynamics
Abstract: A conservation law is a physical quantity that remains constant in
time. In the theory of fluid dynamics there are laws that play a
significant role in the study of geometry, stability and regularity of
flows. For a fluid without internal friction of particles we know
several conserved quantities such as energy, helicity, momenta, and
enstrophy in 2D. In this talk we will discuss how these laws are
derived, conditions under which they are valid, and
physical phenomena in which they are implicated.
Friday September 28, 2007 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636