CE380S Syllabus August 25, 2016 Page 1 of 5 CE 380S Environmental Fluid Mechanics University of Texas, Department of Civil Engineering Instructor: Dr. B. R. Hodges Fall 2016 Office: ECJ 9.102G Unique No: 15720 Phone: 512-471-4730 (-1807 Pickle Campus) Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15 ECJ B.111 (basement) Email: hodges@utexas.edu (please include CE380S in subject line) Office Hours (ECJ 9.102G) Tues 12:30-1:30 and Thurs 2-3; other times by appointment. Availability on Monday, Wednesday, Friday: On these days, I am generally at the UT Pickle Research Campus, CRWR, Building 119. I can usually meet with you there, however, if you are making a trip to CRWR to visit me it is best to make an appointment by phone or email. Class web site: Canvas Exam dates: There will be no exams in this class. Grading will be based on written reports and presentations. Theme: This course is focused on applications of fluid mechanics that provide insight into the physics and transport in environmental systems. Over the course of the term, students will work through state-ofthe-art journal articles on EFM problems and will learn the fundamentals of advection, diffusion, turbulence and mixing in stratified natural systems. Lakes, rivers and estuaries will be used as example environmental systems, which will be used to motivate investigations into fluid mechanics processes such as turbulence, internal waves, plumes, jets and convective mixing. The methodology emphasizes use of scaling analyses and balance arguments to reduce the Navier-Stokes equations to first-order balancing of key processes. Primary Objectives: The course is designed to guide students through learning: 1) the qualitative descriptions of environmental flows, 2) an introduction to the jargon of EFM research and turbulence, 3) scaling analysis as a tool for understanding environmental systems, 4) basic processes that control different typical EFM flows. Secondary Objectives: This course is designed to provide students experience in: 1) reading and analyzing academic literature, 2) writing a critical review of a journal article, 3) preparing a literature review in a subject, 4) presentation of material in a whiteboard technical lecture. Scope of course within the graduate curriculum: This is not a substitute for a graduate-level incompressible flow course (e.g. ME 381P) that teaches the fundamentals of fluid dynamics and solutions for the basic equations. This course is designed without a graduate-level prerequisite by approaching environmental fluid mechanics using both a top-down approach (starting from the system level) and a bottom-up approach (starting from fundamental equations). Students who are interested in more detailed study of fluid mechanics are encouraged to take ME 381P as a complement to this course. Within the EWRE curriculum, CE 397, Computational Environmental Fluid Mechanics, is a natural follow-on to this course for students interested in EFM. Prerequisites: Elementary Fluid Mechanics CE 319F, or the equivalent. 1
CE380S Syllabus August 25, 2016 Page 2 of 5 Textbooks: Optional: Fluid Mechanics, Pijush K. Kundu and Ira M. Cohen, Elsevier, 2004 (any graduate-level fluid mechanics textbook is likely suitable). Note that I do not teach out of a textbook, but it is quite helpful for you to have one available as a reference. Attendance: Class attendance is strongly encouraged. Students who miss more than 5 lectures will be dropped from the class. Effect of class participation: Class participation, including attendance and asking questions, is strongly encouraged. The instructor reserves the right to add or subtract up to 5% on a final grade for class participation. Students should not count on obtaining these points in their final grade without showing significant effort in class. LaTeX: Writing equations with MS-Word or most other word processors is a huge waste of time. In this course, I expect to see equations and derivations in your reports so all assignments will be completed using the LaTeX type-setting package. There will be a short introductory lecture and some LaTeX templates provided in class. You will need to install a LaTeX package on your computer. This can be downloaded for free from a variety of different places. On a Mac computer, I recommend TexShop (www.texshop.org). On Windows machines, I previously used MiKTeX (miktex.org), but there may be other versions that are better. Important Submission Dates: There are assignments throughout the semester that must be turned in on time. You will be downgraded for being late on assignments. September 8: Submit your subject that you want to focus on for this class via email to the professor. September 15: Submit a journal paper (pdf) that will be your subject for a Critical Review Assignment to the professor via email. September 29: Submit draft Critical Review Assignment (LaTeX) for peer review to the professor and reviewing students via email. October 13: Submit peer review comments on draft Critical Review Assignment to the professor and the student authors via email. October 20: Submit revised Critical Review Assignment (LaTeX and PDF) to professor via email. October 27: Submit draft Final Project for peer review to professor and reviewing students via email. November 10: Submit peer review comments on draft Final Project to professor and the student authors via email. December 5: Submit Final Project to professor (PDF) via email. Late Submission Penalties: Be respectful of the other students (and the professor) submit you papers for peer review on time, and return your peer reviews on time. Make sure you meet the deadlines for submitting papers etc. to the professor. You may lose up to 1/2 a letter grade for each missed submission date. Assignments: 1) Critical Review: 25% of grade, 2) Peer Review of 3 other Critical Reviews: 5% of grade. 3) Student Lecture: 25% of grade, 4) Final Project: 40% of grade, 5) Peer Review of 3 other Final Projects 5% of grade Peer Review: Reviewing and commenting on the work of others is an important skill for any engineer/scientist to develop. Practice at reviewing can also help you be a better writer. In this class, Critical Review and Final Project will be submitted for peer review. Each student will read and critique the submissions of 2
CE380S Syllabus August 25, 2016 Page 3 of 5 three different students for each assignment. The students will have an opportunity to further revise their own papers to answer the peer review before final submission to the professor. The professor will grade the peer reviewer on their attention to detail and provision of helpful comments. See the Peer Review Assignment sheet for detailed information. Critical Review: The Critical Review is an in-depth review of a portion of a single journal paper. Practice working through the missing mathematics in a paper is an important aspect of this assignment. See the Critical Review Assignment sheet for detailed information. Student Lecture: M.S. and Ph.D. graduates should be able to explain technical topics with the use of a whiteboard. Unfortunately, most students get neither the training nor opportunity to develop these skills. In this course, each student will be responsible for preparing and giving a 30 minute lecture on the details of a topic in EFM using a whiteboard (no powerpoint). See the Student Lecture Assignment sheet for detailed information. Timing and topics of student lectures will be discussed in class and will depend on the number of students enrolled. Final Project: The final project is a derivation and explanation of the fundamental mathematics in an environmental fluid mechanics subject area. See the Final Project Assignment sheet for detailed information. AN IMPORTANT NOTE ON PLAGIARISM Any phrase or sentence that you copy directly must have quotation marks at the beginning and end otherwise it is plagiarism. That doesn t mean you can simply rephrase a paragraph and pass it off as your own. If you paraphrase someone else s idea you still cite where you got the idea. Note, I am not expecting you to write a unique contribution to EFM, so I expect that you may want to use some quotations and some paraphrasing. However, papers that plagiarize at any level will be given a failing grade even if the plagiarism is inadvertent. Plagiarism will ruin your reputation, so you cannot let it happen, even by accident. Furthermore, if I think that you were deliberately plagiarizing to try get a better grade or make it easier to write your paper, I will give you a failing grade for the class and report you to the Dean s office for further punishment. YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL WITH CITATIONS AND QUOTATIONS. Taking care in this area is critical to your career, which is why my penalties are severe. Note that it is very easy for me to identify phrases that don t fit with the style you establish for your own writing. I routinely use online plagiarism sites to check your papers, but after 16 years of doing this I can usually spot it without electronic help. I simply copy a suspicious phrase to Google Scholar and can quickly find where you plagiarized. 3
CE380S Syllabus August 25, 2016 Page 4 of 5 AN IMPORTANT NOTE ON FILE NAMES You will be submitting LaTeX files (in a zipped folder) and PDF files to both the professor and to other students in the class. Imagine what happens if everyone names their folder Assignment 1. Obviously, you need to have a unique name for your submission. These easiest way to make sure the file is unique is to use your name as part of the file and folder name. Please use the following conventions: CriticalReview_YourLastName_YourFirstName_YYYYMMDD FinalProject_YourLastName_YourFirstName_YYYYMMDD PeerCriticalReview_OtherStudentLastName_OtherStudentFirstName_YourLastName_YourFirstName_Y YYYMMDD PeerFinalProject_OtherStudentLastName_OtherStudentFirstName_YourLastName_YourFirstName_YY YYMMDD Note that YYYMMDD are all numbers, e.g. 20150929 is 2015, September 29. For any journal paper you submit (as PDF) please name it as follows for a two author paper please use FirstAuthorLastName and SecondAuthorLastName YYYY.pdf e.g. Smith and Jones 1999.pdf where YYYY is the year. For a 3 or more author paper, please use the first two authors and etal. FirstAuthorLastName SecondAuthorLastName etal YYYY.pdf e.g. Smith Jones etal 1999.pdf. If I have to rename files to prevent conflicts, your grade will be reduced. Course/Instructor Evaluation Plan: An evaluation of the course and instructor will be conducted at the end of the semester using the approved UT Course/Instructor evaluation forms. Scholastic dishonesty: Students who violate University rules on scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and/or dismissal from the University. Since such dishonesty harms the individual, all students, and the integrity of the University, policies on scholastic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. For additional information, see the Dean of students website and University General Information Catalog at: http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/ and http://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-c/student-discipline-and-conduct/. Students with disabilities: The University of Texas at Austin provides, upon request, appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities, 512-471-6259 (Videophone: 512-410-6644) or http://diversity.utexas.edu/disability/. Web and Privacy Policy: Web-based, password-protected class sites will be associated with all academic courses taught at the University. Syllabi, handouts, assignments and other resources are types of information that may be available within these sites. Site activities could include exchanging e-mail, engaging in class discussions and chats, and exchanging files. In addition, electronic class rosters will be a component of the sites. Students who do not want their names included in these electronic class rosters must restrict their directory information in the Office of the Registrar. Course drop date: From the 1st through the 4th class day, graduate students can drop a course via the web and receive a refund. During the 5th through 12th class day, graduate students must initiate drops in the department that offers the course and receive a refund. After the 12th class day, no refund is given. No class can be added after the 12th class day. From the 13th through the 20th class day, an automatic Q is assigned with approval from the Graduate Advisor and the Graduate Dean. From the 21st class day 4
CE380S Syllabus August 25, 2016 Page 5 of 5 through the last class day, graduate students can drop a class with permission from the instructor, Graduate Advisor, and the Graduate Dean. Students with 20-hr/week GRA/TA appointment or a fellowship may not drop below 9 hours. Accommodation for religious holy days: A student who misses classes or other required activities, including examinations, for the observance of a religious holy day should inform the instructor as far in advance of the absence as possible, so that arrangements can be made to complete an assignment within a reasonable time after the absence. Emergency evacuation: Occupants of buildings on The University of Texas at Austin campus are required to evacuate buildings when a fire alarm is activated. Alarm activation or announcement requires exiting and assembling outside (across the bridge). Familiarize yourself with all exit doors of each classroom and building you may occupy. Remember that the nearest exit door may not be the one you used when entering the building. Students requiring assistance in evacuation shall inform their instructor in writing during the first week of class. In the event of an evacuation, follow the instruction of faculty or class instructors. Do not re-enter a building unless given instructions by the following: Austin Fire Dept., The University of Texas at Austin Police Dept., or Fire Prevention Services office. Behavior Concerns Advice Line (BCAL) 512-232-5050. For more information visit the BCAL website: http://www.utexas.edu/safety/bcal/ Link to information regarding emergency evacuation routes and emergency procedures can be found at: www.utexas.edu/emergency 5