MSCS Graduate Student Seminar
Fall 2000
October 27 and November 10
SPEAKER: Susan Friedlander
TITLE: Instabilities in Fluid Motion
ABSTRACT: We live in a fluid world surrounded by air and water.
Our weather is crucially governed by instabilities in these fluids.
In this talk we give an introduction to the equations that
describe the motion of a fluid and discuss the mathematical concept
of instability. We describe how almost all states of the fundamental
equations ( the Euler equations) are unstable.