Hello everyone,
I’m was curious if anyone has any insight on what PDEs I should to know to start the “12 steps to Navier-Stokes.” This is probably a dumb idea, but I’m currently an undergrad and I want to learn this stuff, but I probably won’t be able to take a PDEs course for like 1-2 years. It’s looking like I have a pretty nothing summer lined up, so I figure, hey, why not try to learn something applicable that seems super rad, and also try to mend some of the gaps from a really meh ODEs experience. I’m probably being naive. I haven’t tried to learn a math course on my own, so I figure it’d probably be best to see if there are subjects I can isolate so I don’t sign up for too much, lose motivation and crash and burn or whatever. Anyways, sorry if this is kinda a dumb request, I’m a pretty dumb undergrad lost in a sea of cool stuff I don’t get, any response/suggestions welcome, thanks, sorry if this is a waste of time.
Oh, side note: it’s also maybe important to note that on my current track (physics) there’s no class devoted to cfd, it’d probably be an elective, so I kinda want to sus it out for that, and also maybe boost an application (slightly) for possible research opportunities…
So no worries about appearing dumb. If you would know what questions I ask people you would be surprised 
