Summer School 2012

Gerhard Jirka Summer School on Environmental Fluid Mechanics - from theory to applications

Juni 11 - 20, 2012, Switzerland

Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) is concerned with the fluid motions and associated mass, heat and momentum transport processes that occur at various scales of the earth’s hydrosphere and atmosphere. The interaction of flows and reactions between the natural and built environments is at the centre of EFM.
The School will follow closely the aims and objectives established successfully at the foregoing events held at the Universities of Karlsruhe in 1999 and 2006, Dundee in 2001, Budapest in 2004 and Santiago de Chile in 2009. It will cover the basic theoretical principles underlying a range of environmental flows and their mathematical description.

From theory to applications will be a core element of this edition of the School. Selected computational simulation models and examples of engineering design and environmental applications will be demonstrated. The relation to the environmental concerns will be more intensively highlighted than in former courses.

Students are granted a total of 2 credits (ECT) upon completion.

This course is supported by: