Boulder School 2011: Lecture Notes

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Week 1
July 5 Brenner Introduction to Fluid Mechanics I PDF
Lohse Bubble Puzzles PPT
July 6 Brenner Introduction to Fluid Mechanics II PDF
Stebe Surfacants and Marangoni Effects Slides | Notes | Videos (zipped)
Tuckerman Hydrodynamic Instabilities PDF1, PDF2, PDF3, Slides
July 7 Tuckerman Pattern Formation PDF
Lohse Thermal Convection (turbulence) PDF
Quere Capillarity and Wetting I PDF
July 7 Brenner Science and Cooking  
July 8 Stebe Capillary Interactions between Particles Slides | Notes | Videos (zipped)
Quere Capillarity and Wetting II PDF
Goldenfeld Drag on Moving Bodies and the Renormalization Group PDF
Week 2
July 11 Lathrop What is Turbulence? PDF
Goldenfeld Introduction to Turbulence (statistical theory) PDF
Eckhardt Turbulent Transition PDF
July 12 Pouquet How Many Types of Turbulence are There? PPT
Goldenfeld Theoretical Advances in the Statistical Theory of Turbulence PDF
July 13 Voth Turbulent Mixing I PPT
Lathrop Turbulence Experimental Introduction I PDF
Eckhardt Advances in Turbulent Transition I PDF
July 14 Voth Experimental Advances in the Statistical Theory of Turbulence PDF (joint with lecture 3) | Notes
Pouquet Spectra of Turbulence and Turbulent Transition PDF
Voth Turbulent Mixing II PDF (joint with lecture 2)
July 15 Eckhardt Advances in Turbulent Transition II PDF
Lathrop MHD Turubulence and the Dynamo Problem  
Week 3
July 18 Hosoi Introduction to Biofluid Dynamics (Low Reynolds Number) PDF
Joanny Active Matter with Biological Molecules I Slides | Notes
July 19 Gollub Biological Active Matter I PDF
Joanny Active Matter with Biological Molecules II Slides | Notes (joint with lecture 1)
Jaeger Granular Matter I PDF (revised)
July 20 Gollub Biological Active Matter II PDF (joint with lecture 1)
Joanny Active Matter with Biological Molecules III Slides | Notes (joint with lectures 1 and 2)
Sen Introduction to Synthetic Active Matter PDF
July 21 Jaeger Granular Matter II PDF
Hosoi Bio-inspired Robotics (swimming, crawling and digging) PDF
Sen Powering Active Particle and Fluid Motion PDF (Joint with lecture 1)
July 21 Hosoi From Razor Clams to Robots: Drawing Engineering Inspiration from Natural Systems PDF
July 22 Sen Collective Behavior of Autonomous Nano/Microbots PDF (Joint with lectures 1 and 2)
Week 4
July 25 Shelley Introduction to Biofluid Dynamics (all Reynolds numbers) PDF
Palffy-Muhory Amazing Things with Liquid Crystals I PDF
Goldman Swimming in Sand I PDF
July 26 Fauci Amazing Simulations I PPT | Notes | Homework
Palffy-Muhory Amazing Things with Liquid Crystals II PDF
Goldman Swimming in Sand II PDF
Shelley Modeling comples & active fluids  
July 27 Fauci Amazing Simulations II PPT
Palffy-Muhory Amazing Things with Liquid Crystals III PDF
Goldman Swimming in Sand III PDF
July 28 Fauci Amazing Simulations III PPT
Shelley More Active Matter and Wrap-up PDF