This page was last updated 30 Nov 2018.
Course Syllabus — posted 01 Oct 2018
Texts-References — posted 17 Sep 2018
Topics — posted 17 Sep 2018
Problem Sessions — posted 17 Sep 2018
9 Big Ideas — posted 17 Sep 2018
Problem Set 1 — due 10 Oct 2018
Problem Set 2 — due 22 Oct 2018
Problem Set 3 — due 05 Nov 2018
Problem Set 4 — due TBA
Manheimer and Dupree (1968) on Nonlinear Landau Damping and Relaxation Due to Wave Interactions — posted 30 Nov 2018
BBGKY Hierarchy — posted 25 Oct 2018
Cooperative Phenomena and Shock Waves in Collisionless Plasmas (R.Z. Sagdeev, 1966) in Reviews of Plasma Physics, Vol. 4 (M.A. Leontovich, ed.) — posted 11 Oct 2018
On Kinematic Waves, II. A theory of traffic flow on long crowded roads (Lighthill et al. 1955, P. Roy. Soc. A-Math Phy) — posted 05 Oct 2018
On Kinematic Waves, I. Flood Movements in Long Rivers (Lighthill et al. 1955, P. Roy. Soc. A-Math Phy) — posted 04 Oct 2018
A General Approach to Linear and Non-linear Dispersive Waves Using a Lagrangian (Whitman 1965, J. Fluid Mech.) — posted 04 Oct 2018
Reviews of Plasma Physics - Vol 22 - B.B. Kadomtsev - Highly Recommended - posted 22 December 2015
Basic OV Paper on Rayleigh-Taylor Instability - posted 22 December 2015
Review of R-T Instability - posted 22 December 2015
Turbulent Mixing from R-T - posted 22 December 2015
Schematics of Brownian Motion and Fluctuation - Dissipation Theory - posted 22 December 2015
On the Instability of Superposed Fluids in a Gravitational Field - David Layzer - posted 22 December 2015
Thermal Equilibrium Fluctuations and Transport - posted 22 December 2015
Lectures on Random Walks and Diffusion - Highly Recommended - posted 22 December 2015
Chandrasekha Review - Highly Recommended - posted 22 December 2015
Ryutov: 50 Years of Landau Damping - posted 22 December 2015
Debye on Screening - posted 07 January 2016
Whitham Wave Trains - posted 11 January 2016
Sturrock Negative Energy - posted 15 January 2016
Dawson Landau Damping - posted 15 January 2016
Basics of Fluctuations Near Equilibrium - REposted 25 January 2016
Rostoker and Rosenbluth on Test Particle Model - posted 1 February 2016
Roberts and Berk on Saturation of Two-Stream Instability - posted 1 February 2016
Berk, Nielsen, Roberts on Phase Space Fluid Dynamics - posted 1 February 2016
Chapter 2 - Includes Lenard-Balescu - posted 16 February 2016
Chapter 3 - Quasilinear Theory - posted 16 February 2016
Violent Relaxation, D. Lynden-Bell - posted 16 February 2016
A Perturbation Theory for Strong Plasma Turbulence, T.H. Dupree - posted 16 February 2016
Solving Linear Stochastic Differential Equations, A. Brissaud and U. Frisch - posted 17 February 2016
7 Big Ideas - posted 3 March 2016
Falkovich on NLS - posted 7 March 2016
Langmuir Turbulence and Collapse Review - posted 8 March 2016
Scaing and Estimation:
Lecture 1: Buckingham Pi Theorem - posted 22 December 2015
Comments on Lecture 1 - posted 22 December 2015
Lecture 2: A Second Piece of Pi / Turbulence - posted 22 December 2015
Lecture 3: More on Turbulence/Fractals and Intermittency - posted 22 December 2015
Lecture 4: Gases, Diffusion → Transport - posted 22 December 2015
Lecture 5: Wakes - posted 22 December 2015
Transport 1(1) - posted 22 December 2015
Wakes-Supplement - posted 22 December 2015
Transport II - Scaling and Scales - posted 22 December 2015
Transport III - Dielectrics and Conductors - posted 22 December 2015
Transport in Metals: Review - posted 22 December 2015
Transport V - Metals - posted 22 December 2015