Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

Second International Conference and Advanced School

27 July - 07 August, 2009
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy



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Structure of the Conference and the School

The Conference and the School will consist of invited lectures by international experts on a broad range of phenomena, where non-equilibrium turbulent processes occur, contributed talks and poster presentations by participants, tutorials for graduate and professional learning, round tables, and open discussions. All sessions are run sequentially. The Book of Abstracts is published (ISBN 92-95003-41-1).

I.   Invited lectures and contributed talks on

  • Canonical Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing: invariant, scaling, spectral properties, scalar transports, convection
  • Wall-Bounded Flowsstructure 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, non-Boussinesq convection
  • 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
  • Cyber-physical systems and high-performance computingcyber-infrastructure, data annotation, visualization, storage and transfer, grid computing and high performance computing systems, next-generation cyber-tools 

II.    Poster presentations by participants

III.   Advanced School for Graduate and Professional Learning with Tutorials on  

  • theory of non-equilibrium processes in fluids and plasmas; mathematical aspects of multi-scale dynamics
  • experiments and experimental diagnostics in fluids and plasmas
  • numerical methods: verification, validation, uncertainty quantification
  • methodologies on data assimilation, processing and analysis
  • Collaborative Computing Environment: cyber-infrastructure, data annotation, visualization, storage, and transfer
  • grid computing and high-performance computing systems, next-generation cyber-tools

IV.   Round tables and open discussions


© 2009 Turbulent Mixing and Beyond
Contact:
tmb@ictp.it, tmb@flash.uchicago.edu