OCEN 489/689

Special Topics on Mixing and Transport in the Environment (Environmental Fluid Mechanics)

Instructor

Dr. Scott A. Socolofsky,
Assistant Professor

Office

CE/TTI 802B
Office Hours

Course Meeting Times

TR 11:10-12:25 in CE 221

Contact

Ph +1-979-845-4517
socolofs@tamu.edu

Satellite image of the phytoplankton concentratin off the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Image provided by the NASA SeaWiFS Program.

Assignments

Assignments are also available from Spring 2007, and for a similar course for earlier years.

Remember that, where applicable, the solution to each problem must at least contain:

Failure to include one of these elements will result in lost credit for the problem.

 

Date out

   

Problems

   

Date due

1/17

   

HW 1: Introduction and concentration

   

1/24

1/24

   

HW 2: Fick's law and diffusion

   

1/31

1/31

   

HW 3: Instantaneous point source solution

   

2/7

2/7

   

HW 4: Solutions to the diffusion equation

   

2/14

2/14

   

HW 5: Exam review

   

2/21

2/28

   

HW 6: Turbulence and dispersion

   

3/6

3/24

   

HW 7: River mixing and dispersion

   

4/1

4/3

   

HW 8: Air/water interface

   

4/10

4/10

   

HW 9: Ocean outfall design 1

   

4/17

4/17

   

HW 10: Ocean outfall design 2

   

4/24

 

Group Project

The group project is described in Project.pdf.

 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CTS-0348572. Any opinions, finds and conclusions or recommendations in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).