=== PART I: BASICS ===
- Introduction to fluid dynamics / MHD
- Non-linear dynamics / complexity (/ chaos theory)
- Overview of astrophysical instabilities (KH, MRI, conv.)
- The Richardson cascade / Kolmogorov's law / ...
=== PART II: THE REYNOLDS-AVERAGING FRAMEWORK (RANS) ===
- Reynolds number / Pipe flow / transition to turbulence
- Heat transport inside the sun / mixing-length / Prandtl
- The Lambda-effect / stellar rotation / meridional flows
- Angular momentum transport in accretion disks
=== PART III: ASTROPHYSICAL DYNAMOS (MF-MHD) ===
- Exemplified mean-field dynamo in a spiral galaxy
- Derivation of equations (+SOCA) / test-field method
- Effects: eddy diffusivity / alpha-effect / pumping terms
- Kinematic stage vs. quenching / topological constraints
=== PART IV: THE LARGE-EDDY FRAMEWORK (LES) ===
- Basic concepts: filtering / (un-)resolved scales
- Spectral picture: forward cascade / backward scattering
- Sub-grid scale -- beyond Smagorinsky- / k-epsilon-type models
- Complications from compressibility / MHD / intermittency
=== TEXT BOOKS ===
- Uriel Frisch: Turbulence
- Arnab Rai Choudhuri: The Physics of fluids and plasmas
- Fritz Krause & Karl-Heinz Rädler: Mean-field electrodynamics
- Günther Rüdiger: Lambda-Effekt
- Kursleiter*in: Dr. Oliver Gressel