Links Page

Important links for the fluid transport devotee

 

efluids.com - good educational site for fluid dynamics (with an impressive gallery of flow images)

Image Gallery - Laminar/Turbulent Flows - another impressive gallery of flow visualization images, this time from the University of Iowa

Socolofsky and Jirka text, 3rd edition - a draft version of a textbook on environmental fluid mechanics by Scott A. Socolofsky of Texas A&M University and Gerhard H. Jirska of the University of Karlsruhe

Cushman-Roisin course notes - very helpful course notes from Dartmouth professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin's Environmental Transport and Fate class. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 cover mass balance, diffusion, dispersion, and air-water exchange among other topics

Central limit theorem - animations produced by Charles Annis Statistical Engineering that demonstrate the central limit theorem for various initial particle distributions

Random walk - Background on the random walk model from QuantNotes

Brownian motion - Wikipidea entry for Brownian motion, including its history, the mathematical model that represents it, and a 2D example