Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

Third International Conference

21 - 28 August 2011
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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The Conference has consist of invited lectures by international experts on a broad range of phenomena, where non-equilibrium turbulent processes occcur, contributed talks an poster presentations by particpants, round tables, tutorial for graduate and professional learning, and open discussions.

I.   Invited lectures and contributed talks

  • Canonical Turbulent and Turbulent Mixing: invariant, scaling, spectral properties, scalar transports, convection
  • Wall-Bounded Flows: structure and fundamentals, non-canonical turbulent boundary layers, including unsteady and transitional flows, supersonic and hypersonic flows, shock-boundary layer interactions
  • Non-Equilibrium Processes: unsteady, multiphase and shock-driven turbulent flows, anisotropic non-local dynamics, connection of continuous description at macro-scales to kinetic processes at atomistic scales
  • Interfacial Dynamics: the instabilities of Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Richtmyer-Meshkov, Landau-Darrieus, Saffmann-Taylor
  • High Energy Density Physics: inertial confinement and heavy-ion fusion, Z-pinches, light-material and laser-plasma interaction, non-equilibrium heat transfer
  • Material Science: material transformation under high strain rates, equation of state, impact dynamics, mixing at nano- and micro-scales
  • Astrophysics: supernovae, interstellar medium, star formation, stellar interiors, early Universe, cosmic-microwave background, accretion disks
  • Magneto-hydrodynamics: magnetic fusion and magnetically confined plasmas, magneto-convection, magneto-rotational instability, dynamo
  • Canonical Plasmas: coupled plasmas, anomalous resistance, ionosphere
  • Physics of Atmosphere: environmental fluid dynamics, forecasting, turbulent flows in stratified media and atmosphere
  • Geophysics and Earth Science: mantle-lithosphere tectonics, oceanography, turbulent convection under rotation, planetary interiors
  • Combustion: dynamics of flames and fires, deflagration-to-detonation transition, blast waves and explosions, flows with chemical reactions, reactive flows in jet engines
  • Mathematical Aspects of Non-Equilibrium Dynamics: vortex dynamics, singularities, discontinuities, asymptotic dynamics, weak solutions, well- and ill-posedness, continuous transports out of thermodynamic equilibrium
  • Stochastic Processes and Probabilistic Description: long-tail distributions and anomalous diffusion, data assimilation and processing methodologies, error estimate and uncertainty quantification, statistically unsteady processes
  • Advanced Numerical Simulations: continuous DNS/LES/RANS, Molecular dynamics, Monte-Carlo, predictive modeling, validation and verification of numerical models
  • Experimental Diagnostics: model experiments in high energy density and low energy density regimes, plasma diagnostics, fluid flow visualizations and control, opto-fluidics, novel optical method, holography, advanced technologies       

II.    Poster presentations by participants

III.   Tutorials for graduate and professional learning

  • experiments and experimental diagnostics in fluids and plasmas
  • methodologies on data assimilation, processing and analysis

IV.   Round table and open discussions