Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

The Book of Abstracts of TMB-2009 has been published, ISBN 92095003-41.1.

The Outline of Round Tables held at TMB-2009 is available HERE.

Electronic version of the Program of TMB-2009 can be found HERE.

27 July 2009, Monday

8.30 – 9.30  Registration
9.30 – 9.55  Welcome from TMB & ICTP

Theme:      Wall–bounded flows

Session Chair:     Serge Gauthier

9.55 – 10.30  Invariant solutions and state–space dynamics in wall–bounded flows

                            Predrag Cvitanović, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

10.30 – 11.00        break

Theme:      Material science, Combustion
Session Chair:    Snezhana I. Abarzhi

11.00 – 11.25    Molecular dynamic simulations of hydrodynamic instabilities        
        of shocked interface in planar and cylindrical geometries
Katsunobu Nishihara, Institute of laser Engineering, Japan   

11.25 – 11.45        Experimental, theoretical and numerical investigation into Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in condensed matter

Inna Myshkina, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia

11.45 – 12.30        Development of the ReaxFF reactive force fields and applications to combustion (tutorial)

Adri van Duin, Penn State University, USA

12.30–14.00          lunch

Themes:      Advanced numerical simulations,  Non–equilibrium processes
Session Chair:    Malcolm Andrews

14.00 – 14.25        Turbulence modeling and Large Eddy Simulations for shock–induced instability and transition to turbulence

Dimitris Drikakis, Cranfield University, UK

14.25 – 15.00        High–order WENO simulation of shock vortex interactions

Chi–Wang Shu, Brown University, USA

15.00 – 15.25        Numerical simulations of the development of regular local perturbations and turbulent mixing behind a shock wave for various shock wave strengths

Yuri Yanilkin, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia

15.25 – 16.00        Variable–density Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence

Daniel Livescu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

16.00 – 16.30        break

Theme:        Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing
Session Chair:        Victor L'vov

16.30 – 16.55        Non–standard homogenization theory for transport by a strong mean flow and periodic fluctuations

Adnan Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

16.55 – 17.30        Examination of Kolmogorov’s idea of universality in turbulence by computational approaches

Yukio Kaneda, Nagoya University, Japan

17.30 – 17.55        Effect of helicity and rotation on the free decay of turbulent flows

Tomas Teitelbaum, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

17.55 – 18.30        Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics from high resolution numerical simulations of weakly compressible turbulence

Luca Biferale, Univ. of Rome tor Vergata & NINP, Italy

28 July 2009, Tuesday

Theme:        Geophysics and Earth science
Session Chair:    Annick Pouquet

8.30 – 9.15          Anisotropic large–scale circulations and transport and zonostrophic turbulence (tutorial)

Boris Galperin, University of South Florida, USA

9.15 – 10.00          A quasi–normal theory of turbulence and its applications in geophysical fluid dynamics (tutorial)

Semion Sukoriansky, Ben–Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10.00 – 10.30        break

Themes:      Non–equilibrium processes, Magneto–hydrodynamics, Experimental Diagnostics

Session Chair:    Katsunobu Nishihara

10.30 – 11.05        On the limits of Navier–Stokes theory and kinetic extensions for gaseous hydrodynamics

Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, Massachusetts Inst. Technology, USA

11.05 – 11.40        Recent results on magneto–hydrodynamic turbulence

Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA

11.40 – 12.20        Cryogenic techniques applied to fluid turbulence (tutorial)

Joseph J. Niemela, Int. Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Mathematical aspects of non–equilibrium dynamics, Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing, Stochastic processes and probabilistic description

Session Chair:    Alexander Nepomnyashchy

14.00 - 14.25        Clustering of inertial particles in free jets
                        Carlo Massimo Casciola, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

14.25 – 15.00        Quantum and classical turbulence in superfluids

Victor L'vov, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

15.00 – 15.25        Evidence of turbulence power laws from image data

Patrick Heas, INRIA Center of Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique, France

15.25   – 16.00       Fluctuations of dissipation scale and turbulent mixing

Victor Yakhot, Boston University, USA

16.00 – 16.25        break

Themes:      Mathematical aspects of non–equilibrium dynamics,               Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing,                                       Stochastic processes and probabilistic description

Session Chair:    Alexander Klimenko

16.25 – 17.00        Lagrangian approach to weakly nonlinear stability of an elliptical

                                flow

Yasuhide Fukumoto, Kyushu University, Japan

17.00 – 17.25        Vortex dynamics in turbulent flows: a Lagrangian viewpoint

Andrea Scagliarini, University of Rome tor Vergata & NINP, Italy

17.25 – 18.00        Conditional strain rates along gradient trajectories from various scalar fields in turbulence

Lipo Wang, RWTH–Aachen, Germany

18.00 – 18.30        Analyzing transient turbulence in a stenosed carotid artery by proper orthogonal decomposition

Alexander Yakhot, Ben–Gurion University, Israel

19.00 – 21.00        Reception

29 July 2009, Wednesday

Theme:        Magneto–hydrodynamics

Session Chair:    Ralph Pudritz

8.30 – 9.15            Laboratory experiment on colliding plasmas

Walter Gekelman, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

9.15 – 10.05          Nonlinear gyrokinetics: A powerful tool for the description of microturbulence in magnetized plasmas

John A. Krommes (tutorial), Princeton University, USA

10.05 – 10.30        break

Theme:        Stochastic processes and probabilistic description

Session Chair:    Sergei Fedotov

10.30 – 11.15        Fractional kinetics (tutorial)

Alexander Nepomnyashchy

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

11.15 – 11.55        What can be simulated by using particles with mixing and

                              competition?

Alexander Y. Klimenko, The University of Queensland, Australia

11.55   – 12.35       Hybrid stochastic–statistical strategies in climate science

Andrew Majda, Courant Inst. Math. Sciences, New York Univ., USA

12.35 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Interfacial dynamics,  Experimental diagnostics

Session Chair:    Sergei S. Orlov

14.00 – 14.35        A PDF of molecular mix measurements in high Schmidt number Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence

Malcolm J. Andrews, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

14.35 – 15.10        Dispersion of liquid drops under effect of an air shock wave with intensity from 0.2 atm to up to 42 atm

Nikolay Nevmerzhitsky, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF,

Russia

15.10 – 16.00        Holographic optical diagnostics of fluid flows (tutorial)

George Barbastathis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA & Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center, Singapore

16.00 – 16.20        break

Theme:        Astrophysics

Session Chair:    Stanislav Boldyrev

16.20 – 16.55        Applications of Braid theory in vortex dynamics and in solar

                        astrophysics

Mitchell Berger, University of Exeter, UK

16.55 – 17.30        Ambipolar diffusion drifts and dynamos in turbulent gases

Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA

17.30 – 17.55        Turbulent instabilities in the interstellar medium

Robin Williams, Atomic Weapons Establishment, UK

17.55 – 18.30        Transport in hydro–magnetic turbulence and dynamos

Axel Brandenburg, Nordic Inst. Theor. Physics, Stockholm, Sweden

30 July 2009, Thursday

Themes:      Experimental diagnostics, High–performance computing and cyber–infrastructure

Session Chair:        Walter Gekelman 

8.30 – 9.15  New technologies for fluid dynamics experiments and

advanced optical diagnostics (tutorial)

Sergei S. Orlov, Stanford University &  InPhase Tech., Inc., USA

9.15      – 10.00       Visualizing peta–scale data sets with VisIt

Henry R. Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California at Davis, USA

10.00 – 10.30        break

Themes:      Experimental diagnostics, Interfacial dynamics, Canonical plasmas

Session Chair:    Katherine P. Prestridge

10.30 – 11.05       Experimental study of compressible turbulent mixing

Kazuyoshi Takayama, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University,

Japan

11.05 – 11.30       ICF–related Richtmyer–Meshkov instability:

                             Mach 10experiments

Devesh Ranjan, Texas A&M University, USA

11.30-11.55         Shock-tube investigations of the instability of a two-gas interface                      accelerated by a shock wave

                    Evgeny E. Meshkov (talk given by Oleg Ol'khov),

                    Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF, Russia

11.55   – 12.30      Instabilities and turbulent mixing in electro–hydrodynamics

Eduard Son, Joint Inst. for High Temperature of Academy of Sciences & Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Advanced numerical simulations

Session Chair:    David L. Youngs

14.00 – 14.25        A turbulent mixing Reynolds stress model fitted to match linear interaction: analysis predictions

Jerome Griffond, CEA, DAM, DIF, France

14.25 – 14.50        The three–dimensional multimode Richtmyer–Meshkov     

                     instability

B. Thornber, Cranfield University, UK

14.50 – 15.15        Comparison of different approaches to shock–capturing turbulent flow simulations

Asiya Guzhova, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia

15.15 – 15.40        Rayleigh–Taylor instability with localized perturbations

Robin Williams, Atomic Weapons Establishment, UK

16.05 – 16.30   break

16.30 – 18.30        Round Table - I

Open discussion. Some of the questions to discuss include:

- What are "canonical" and "non-canonical" (non-equilibrium) turbulent flows: their similarity and distinctions, and connections of TMB-related problems to well-established fields and problems

- What would be the "model" problem [deep enough and specific enough] to consider and to be useful in a variety of TMB-related themes?

- What  might be qualitative criteria to estimate the quality and information capacity of experimental and numerical data sets and to evaluate predictive capabilities of theories and models?

-  Collaborative computing environment: opportunities offered by modern technologies for data sharing, annotation, transfer, analysis, visualization? Cyber-physical systems? Cyber-infrastructure?

- Any  question that you consider as important for your research and your field.

31 July 2009, Friday

Themes:      Advanced numerical simulations, Canonical plasmas, Interfacial dynamics

Session Chair:    Bedros Afeyan

8.30 – 8.55            Numerical simulations of turbulent flow through a fine screen

Alexander Shklyar, The Volcani Center, Israel

8.55 – 9.30            Controlled study of ionospheric plasma turbulence in radio–wave injection experiments

Min–Chang Lee, Boston University & 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

9.30 – 9.55            Shock wave instability with interaction of the shock wave with a region of lowered density in a glow discharge column

Alexander Baryshnikov, Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

9.55 – 10.30          Oscillation and pinching phenomenon in the Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities with surface tension

Chihiro Matsuoka, Ehime University, Japan

10.20 – 11.00        break

10.30 – 12.30        Poster Session - I

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Interfacial dynamics,  Non–equilibrium processes,
                    High energy density physics

Session Chair:    Giora Hazak

14.00 – 14.25        Specific features of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability growth with 2D and 3D initial perturbation geometry

Oleg Ol'khov, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Sarov,

Russia

14.25 – 15.10        Reactive dynamics of materials and interfaces at non–equilibrium conditions using first–principles based force fields

William A. Goddard III, California Institute of Technology, USA

15.10 – 15.50        Coherence and randomness in non–equilibrium turbulent

                      processes

Snezhana I. Abarzhi, The University of Chicago, USA

15.50 – 16.10        Research Opportunities at Basic Plasma Facility (UCLA)

                               [When dense plasmas collide]

                     Walter Gekelman, The University of California at Los Angeles 

16.10 – 16.30     break

Themes:      Interfacial dynamics,  Advanced numerical simulations,           Experimental diagnostics

Session Chair:    Daniel Livescu

16.30 – 17.05        The density ratio dependence of self–similar Rayleigh–Taylor 

                     mixing

David L. Youngs, Atomic Weapons Establishment, UK

17.05 – 17.30        Lag modeling of subgrid–scale dissipation in Large Eddy

                    Simulation

Sergei Chumakov, Center for Turbulence Research,

Stanford University, USA

17.30 – 18.05        Understanding experimental diagnostics and results for code and model validation

Katherine P. Prestridge, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

18.05 – 18.30        New models to capture evolution of molecular mix and de–mix in variable–density flows

Krista Stalsberg–Zarling, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

19.00 – 21.00        Conference and School Banquet

1 August 2009, Saturday

Theme:        Free Time

2 August 2009, Sunday

Theme:        Free Time  

        

3 August 2009, Monday

Theme:        Astrophysics

Session Chair: Snezhana I. Abarzhi

8.30 – 9.00  Turbulence and turbulent mixing in natural fluids

Carl Gibson, University of California at San Diego, USA

9.00 – 9.25  Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of local solar supergranulation

Sergey Ustyugov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russia

9.25 – 10.00 Joys of highly turbulent solar convection and magnetic dynamos

Juri Toomre, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

10.00 – 10.30        break

Themes:      Combustion,  Material science

Session Chair: Sergei S. Orlov

10.30 – 10.55 Two–point closure method for turbulence with reacting and mixing chemical elements of type A + B → C

Mayoordhwaj Meshram, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, India

10.55 – 11.20 Analogy of meteorite impacts in laboratory conditions

Tara Desai, Università Milano–Bicocca, Italy

11.20 – 11.55 Melt–dispersion mechanism for reaction of aluminum nano– and micron–scale particles

Valery I. Levitas, Iowa State University, USA

11.55 – 12.30 Atomistic simulations of material dynamics and interfaces under high–rate mechanical or thermal loading

Sergey Zybin, California Institute of Technology, USA

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Physics of atmosphere, Wall–bounded flows

Session Chair: Aline Cotel

14.00 – 14.25 Forecasting atmospheric turbulence for adaptive optics application: models comparison of vertical turbulence profile

Lidia Bolbasova, Institute of Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

14.25 – 15.00 Using satellite measurements of stellar scintillation for mapping turbulence in the stratosphere

Viktoria Sofieva, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

15.00 – 15.35 The quest for high Reynolds number wall – bounded experiments – why, where and how?

Henrik Alfredsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

15.35  – 16.10 Turbulence modeling for flow control

Jurgen Seidel, United States Air Force Academy, USA

16.10 – 16.30        break

Theme:        High energy density physics

Session Chair: Alexander L. Velikovich

16.30 – 17.05 Nonlinear non–stationary self–organized asymptotic structures in high energy density plasmas and non–equilibrium Euler turbulence

Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc., USA

17.05 – 17.30 Turbulence generation by a shock wave interacting with a random density inhomogeneity field

Cesar Huete Ruiz de Lira, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain

17.30 – 18.05 Magnetically driven supersonic plasma jets in high energy density experiments

Sergey Lebedev, The Imperial College London, UK

18.05 – 18.30 Dynamics of laser–driven shock waves in solid targets observed with monochromatic X–ray imaging

Yefim Aglitskiy,

                     Naval Research Laboratory & Science Appl. Int. Corp., USA
               

4 August 2009, Tuesday

Themes:      Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing, High energy density physics, Magneto–hydrodynamics

Session Chair: Yefim Aglitskiy

8.30 – 9.00         Suppression of Rayleigh–Taylor instability and impact ignition

Hiroshi Azechi (talk is given by K. Nishihara), Institute of Laser

Engineering, Japan

9.00 – 9.20        Analysis of hydrodynamic instability growth in a 2D flow
                          Victor Sivolgin, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
9.20 – 10.05        Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas
                     Ronald Waltz, General Atomics Corporation, San Diego, USA

10.05 – 10.30  break

Theme:        Astrophysics and Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing

Session Chair: Yuri Toomre

10.30 – 11.05        Shock generated vorticity in the interstellar medium and origins of the stellar initial mass function

Ralph E. Pudritz, McMaster University, Canada

11.05 – 11.30        Weakly compressible turbulence in local interstellar medium and three–dimensional modeling using Large Eddy Simulations method

Arakel Petrosyan, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

11.30 – 12.05        Transitional solar dynamics, cosmic rays, and global warming

Alexander Bershadskii, Institute for Cosmology and Astrophysical

Research, Israel

12.05 – 12.30        Lagrangian statistical theory of fully–developed hydrodynamic

                    turbulence

Valeria Sirota, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of

Sciences, Russia

12.30 – 14.00  lunch

Theme:        Geophysics and Earth science

Session Chair:    Terence O'Kane

14.00 – 14.35        Rotating turbulent flows in the presence of helicity

Annick Pouquet, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

14.35 – 15.05        Recent developments in stratified turbulence

Aline Cotel, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

15.05 – 15.35        Dynamics of oceanic zonal jets

Balu Nadiga, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

15.35 – 16.00        Statistical properties of wind wave breaking crests from field measurements

Alexei Mironov (a.k.a. Oleksii Myronov), Marine Hydro–physical

Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine

16.00 – 16.30        break

Themes:      Interfacial dynamics, Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing

Session Chair: Jeremia Bec

16.30 – 17.15        Compressibility effects in fluid flows (tutorial)

Serge Gauthier, CEA/DAM/DIF, France

17.15 – 17.40        Oscillatory behavior in the Rayleigh–Taylor instability for     

                     compressible fluids

Xavier Barthelemy, CEA/DAM/DIF, France

17.40   – 18.15       Transition to turbulence for flows without linear criticality

Masato Nagata, Kyoto University, Japan

18.15 – 18.40        Velocity and concentration fields in turbulent buoyant mixing inside a tilted tube

Jemil Znanien, University of Paris–Sud, France

19.00 – 21.00  Reception

5 August 2009, Wednesday

Theme:        High energy density physics

Session Chair: Katsunobu Nishihara

8.30 – 9.00        Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas
                     Ronald Waltz (part II), General Atomics Corporation, San Diego, USA

9.00 – 9.25            Blast–wave–driven Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities

Bruce Fryxell, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

9.25 – 10.10       Instabilities, turbulence and energy coupling into Z–pinch

                    plasmas (tutorial)

Alexander Velikovich, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

10.10 – 10.30    break

Theme:        Advanced numerical simulations

Session Chair: Konstantin Khanin

10.30 – 11.05        Turbulent mixing, transport and subgrid models

James J. Glimm, State University at Stony Brook & Brookhaven Natl. Laboratory, USA

11.05 – 11.40        Entropy stable approximations of Navier–Stokes equations with no artificial numerical viscosity

Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland at College Park, USA

11.40 – 12.05        On temperature in a rotating gas tube

Oleg Troshkin, Institute of Computer Aided Design of the Russian

Academy of Sciences, Russia

12.05 – 12.30        Transition to chaos: numerical experiment

Oleg Belotserkovskii, Institute of Computer Aided Design of the 

Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Theme:        Advanced numerical simulations

Session Chair: Snezhana I. Abarzhi

14.00 – 14.45        Implicit Large Eddy Simulation methods (tutorial)

Fernando Grinstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

14.45 – 15.20        The model of energy transport in turbulent sub–critical 

                    laser plasmas of porous targets

Ivan Lebo, Moscow State Institute of Radio–engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University – MIREA), Russia

15.20 – 16.00        Geometric structure and subgrid–scale modeling in turbulence

Dale Pullin, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,

California Institute of Technology, USA

16.00 – 16.20        break

Theme:        Stochastic processes and probabilistic description

Session Chair: Masato Nagata

16.20 – 16.55        Dynamics of droplets bouncing on a liquid interface: a macroscopic type of wave–particle duality

Yves Couder, Université Paris Diderot – Paris, France

16.55 – 17.20        Long–time behavior of stochastic flows

Leonid Koralov, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

17.20 – 17.55        Anomalous transport and reactions in turbulent flow

Sergei Fedotov, The University of Manchester, UK

17.55 – 18.20        Probability distribution function for self–organization of 

                    shear flows

Eun–jin Kim, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK

6 August 2009, Thursday

Themes:      Stochastic processes and probabilistic description, Interfacial dynamics,  Magneto–hydrodynamics

Session Chair: Alexander L. Velikovich

8.30 – 8.55            Large–scale flows in natural and mixed convection

Jorge Bailon–Cuba, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany

8.55 – 9.30            Kinetic theoretical approach to the mixing process due to Rayleigh–Taylor instability

Giora Hazak, Nuclear Research Center, Israel

9.30 – 10.05          Turbulence spreading in magnetically confined plasmas

Taik Soo Hahm, Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton University, USA

10.05 – 10.30        break

Theme:        Mathematical aspects of non–equilibrium dynamics

Session Chair: Dale Pullin

10.30 – 11.05        Dynamics on shocks and the optimal transport problem

Konstantin Khanin, University of Toronto, Canada

11.05 – 11.30        Velocity and energy profiles in two– versus three–dimensional channels: effects of inverse versus direct energy cascade

Oleskii Rudenko, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11.30 – 12.05        The helicity cascade in isotropic and homogeneous turbulence

Pablo D. Mininni, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina & National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

12.05 – 12.30        Unstable periodic orbits for the Navier–Stokes equations

Louis Fazendeiro, University College of London, UK

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Stochastic processes and probabilistic description,  Astrophysics,  Advanced numerical simulations, Experimental diagnostics

Session Chair:    Itamar Procaccia

14.00 – 14.45        Concrete problems of chaotic and clustering time–series analysis

                              (tutorial)

Alexander Bershadskii, Institute for Cosmology and Astrophysical

Research, Israel

14.45 – 15.20        Helioseismology, turbulent convection and the solar tachocline

Michael J. Thompson, University of Sheffield, UK

15.20 – 15.45        Implementation of turbulence models in an unstructured hybrid mesh finite volume CFD code and its application for study of a forward facing step

Janardanan Sarasamma Jayakumar, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India

15.45 – 16.10        A DNS based Tomo–PIV accuracy assessment

                    Nicholas Worth, University of Cambridge, UK

16.10 – 16.30  break

16.30 – 18.30        Round Table - II

Open discussion, extension of Round Table - I.

Some of the questions to discuss include:

- What are the connections of TMB-related problems to other well established fields?

- What is the set of "model" problem [deep enough and specific enough] to consider and to be useful in a variety of TMB-related themes?

- What  are the quantitative criteria for to estimate the quality and information capacity of experimental and numerical data sets and to evaluate predictive capabilities of theories and models?

-  Collaborative computing environment: opportunities offered by modern technologies for data sharing, annotation, transfer, analysis, visualization? Cyber-physical systems? Cyber-infrastructure?

- Action items.

7 August 2009, Friday

Themes:      Wall-bounded flows, Experimental diagnostics, Physics of Atmosphere

Session Chair: Serge Gauthier and Pablo Daniel Mininni

8.30 – 8.55            Numerical simulation of turbulence transition regimes in pipe flow using solenoidal bases

Ozan Tugluk, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

8.55 – 9.20            A parallel finite-volume element method for transient 

                    compressible turbulent flows with heat transfer

                    Masoud Ziaei-Rad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

9.20 – 9.45          Hyper–cooling in the atmospheric surface layer: radiative processes

Vasudevan Mukund, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

9.45 – 10.30          A regularized inhomogeneous statistical dynamical turbulence closure and its application to problems in atmospheric dynamics

Terence O'Kane, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Marine and Atmospheric Research & Center for Australian Climate and Weather Research, Australia

10.30 – 11.00        break

10.30 – 12.30        Poster Session - II

12.30 – 14.00        lunch

Themes:      Wall–bounded flows, Non–equilibrium processes, Advanced numerical simulations

Session Chair: Yves Couder

14.00 – 14.45        Theory of drag reduction by polymers in wall–bounded

                    turbulence

Itamar Procaccia, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

14.45 – 15.25        Vortex reconnections

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy & University of Maryland at College Park, USA

15.25 – 16.05        An introduction to uncertainty quantification

Bruce Fryxell, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

16.05 – 16.30        break

Themes:      Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing,  Advanced numerical simulations

Session Chair:  Joseph J. Niemela

16.30 – 17.10     Turbulent suspensions of heavy particles 

                    Jeremie Bec, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France

17.10 - 17.35    On implicit Large Eddy Simulation of material turbulent mixing  

                     Fernando Grinstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

17.35 –  18.05     Summary
    

19.00 – 21.00  Reception

Adriatico Guest House

Poster Presentations

Sessions I (31 July) and II (07 August)

·      Canonical turbulence and turbulent mixing

P–1

Study of the influence of micromixing model properties on an averaged chemical reaction rate in a turbulent flow

Andrei Chorny

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Inst of National Academy of Sciences, Belarus

P–2

Polymer additives in two–dimensional turbulence
Anupam Gupta
Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India

P–3

Energy spectrum and fluxes in Rayleigh–Benard convection

Pankaj K. Mishra

Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India

P–4

Inertial particles in a two–dimensional random flow

Benjamin Pergolizzi

Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France

Rayleigh instability in a vortex–induced unsteady boundary layer

·      Wall–bounded flows

P–5

Rayleigh instability in a vortex–induced unsteady boundary layer

Alexander Obabko

Argonne National Laboratory, USA

P–6

Suppression of turbulent vortex shedding from a square cylinder in proximity to a wall

Mehrdad Raisee Dehkordi

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

P–7

Development of velocity and pressure disturbances in the near–wall region over deforming absorbing surface

Yaroslav Zagumennyi

Institute of Hydromechanics of National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

·      Interfacial dynamics & Non–equilibrium processes

P–8

Turbulent mixing at gas–liquid interface with the width of the mixing zone up to 200 mm

Nikolay Nevmerzhitsky

Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia

·      High energy density physics

P–9

Evolution of small perturbations in the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets

Lev Ktitorov

Keldysh Inst. Applied Mathematics & Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

·      Material science

P–10

Rayleigh–Taylor instability in a visco–plastic fluid

Aleksey Doludenko

Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Russia

P–11

Experimental, theoretical and numerical investigation into Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in condensed matter

Oleg Olkhov

Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia

·      Astrophysics

P–12

Application of control theory to expanding turbulent media

Gregory Vesper

The University of Chicago, USA

·      Magneto–hydrodynamics

P–13

Turbulent interchange mixing in a dipole–confined plasma

Brian Grierson

Columbia University, USA

P–14

Two–fluid magnetic reconnection

Leonid Malyshkin

The University of Chicago, USA

·      Canonical plasmas

P–15

Waves in expanding laser–produced plasmas

Andrew Collette

University of California at Los Angeles, USA

P–16

Non–stationary turbulent mixing of multichannel discharge plasma and electrolyte

Almaz Gaysin

A. N. Tupolev Kazan State Technical University, Russia

P–17

Turbulent mixing of plasma and electrolyte in multi–channel discharge between a droplet and electrolyte

Rushan Kayumov

A. N. Tupolev Kazan State Technical University, Russia

P–18

Correlation analyses of simultaneously excited large–scale ionospheric plasma turbulence and magnetic field fluctuations produced by a high–frequency heater at Gakona, Alaska

Rezy Pradipta

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

·      Physics of atmosphere & Geophysics and Earth sciences

P–19

One–dimensional vertical model for the atmospheric boundary layer

Arpad Bordas

University of Novi Sad, Serbia

·      Combustion

P–20

Selectivity of competitive – consecutive reactions depending on turbulent mixing conditions in a co–axial jet mixer

Andrei Chorny

A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Inst National Academy of Sciences, Belarus

P–21

The effects of burning on the development of 2D turbulence

Elizabeth Hicks

The University of Chicago, USA

 P–22

Effects of dissipation rate models of mixture–fraction on stable and unstable solutions of SLFM

Jian Zhang

LNM, Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences, China

P–23

Turbulent mixing and large–scale coherent vortical structures inside the vortex chamber with fixed dead–end

Andrey Voskoboinick

Institute of Hydromechanics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

·      Mathematical aspects of non–equilibrium dynamics & Stochastic processes and probabilistic description

P–24

The kinematic instability in nonstationary gasdynamics

Sergey Kholin

Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia

·      Advanced numerical simulations

P–25

On modeling of Saffman–Taylor instability with regularization

Marina Belotserkovskaya

Institute for Computer Aided Design of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

P–26

On vortex cascades in shear flow instabilities

S.V. Fortova

Institute for Computer Aided Design of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

P–27

Numerical simulation of reacting flows using spectral deferred corrections

Candace Gilet

University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

P–28

On the assessment of Large Eddy Simulation of particle–pair statistics in turbulence

Guodong Jin

LNM, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

P–29

Numerical investigation of the turbulent mixing in a converging shock tube

Yi Liu

Atomic Weapons Establishment, UK

P–30

Compressibility effects on single–mode Rayleigh–Taylor instability

Scott James Reckinger

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

P–31

Direct numerical simulation of scalar transfer in regular and fractal grid turbulence

Hiroki Suzuki

Nagoya University, Japan

·      Experimental diagnostics

P–32

Experimental investigation of a twice–shocked spherical density inhomogeneity

Nick Haehn

University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

P–33

The dispersion of lines written in a turbulent jet flow

Mehrnoosh Mirzaei

Applied Molecular Physics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

P–34

The influence of the Mach number of a shock wave on turbulent mixing growth at the interface

Nikolay Nevmerzhitsky

Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia

P–35

High Schmidt number scalar transfer in regular and fractal grid turbulence

Hiroki Suzuki

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

·      Experimental diagnostics
          P–36

Transport of pollutions by thermo–convective currents under frozen parametric disorder

Denis Goldobin

Perm State University, Perm, Russia

8 August 2009, Saturday

Theme:        Free Time

Theme:        Organizing Committee Meeting

 

9 August 2009, Sunday

Theme:        Free Time

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