The Dynamical Universe

Syllabus

1. Euler equation, sound waves.
2. Bernoulli, spheric static flow: Bondi accretion and solar wind.
3. Instabilities: Jeans, Thermal, Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz.
4. Turbulence and convection, mixing length theorem, Disc accretion.
5. Shock waves, Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor solution, Supernovae.
6. Particle acceleration in shock waves.
7. Expansion of the universe. Dark matter and Dark Energy.
8. Early universe: Inflation, Quantum fluctuations, Bariogenesis.
9. Thermal history of the universe: Nucleosynthesis, reionization, cosmic microwave background radiation.
10. Evolution of universal fluctuations, galaxy sources.

References:

1. Fluid mechanics (Landau & Lifshitz)
2. Physics of shock waves and high temperature hydrodynamic phenomena (Zel'dovich & Raizer 2002).
3. The early Universe (Kolb & Turner 1990)
4. Structure formation in the Universe (Padmanabhan 1993)