BGU Physics Department
The Dynamical Universe
(3 points, 3 hours)
course number 203.2.4711
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Syllabus
- Euler equation, sound waves.
- Bernoulli, spheric static flow: Bondi accretion and solar wind.
- Instabilities: Jeans, Thermal, Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz.
- Turbulence and convection, mixing length theorem, Disc accretion.
- Shock waves, Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor solution, Supernovae.
- Particle acceleration in shock waves.
- Expansion of the universe. Dark matter and Dark Energy.
- Early universe: Inflation, Quantum fluctuations, Bariogenesis.
- Thermal history of the universe: Nucleosynthesis, reionization, cosmic microwave background radiation.
- Evolution of universal fluctuations, galaxy sources.
References:
- Fluid mechanics (Landau & Lifshitz)
- Physics of shock waves and high temperature hydrodynamic phenomena (Zel'dovich & Raizer 2002).
- The early Universe (Kolb & Turner 1990)
- Structure formation in the Universe (Padmanabhan 1993)
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