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====== IAM 950: Spatiotemporal and turbulent dynamics ====== MW 2:10-3:30pm Kingsbury N204 Prof. John Gibson, Mathematics and Statistics\\ john.gibson@unh.edu, Kingsbury Hall N309E Prof. Greg Chini, Mechanical Engineering\\ greg.chini@unh.edu, Kingsbury Hall W113 **abstract** This course examines the theory of bifurcations, pattern formation, and spatiotemporal chaos in systems governed by time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations. The course begins with comparatively well-developed theories and simple model systems (e.g. 1-dimensional nonlinear PDEs) and progresses by stages of increasing complexity to the culminating problem of coherent structures and turbulence in the Navier-Stokes equations. The goal is to give advanced graduate students the proper analytic and conceptual background for research in the dynamics of unstable spatio-temporal patterns in turbulent shear flows. [[gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam950:syllabus | Detailed syllabus]],
