Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna

Thematic Programme
CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF TURBULENCE
(Organisers: B. Dubrulle, N. Mauser, S. Nazarenko, A. Tsinober, A. Schekochihin)

Workshop and Minicourse
"Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Mean Fields vs. Fluctuations"

11-15 February 2008

This workshop brings together a number of researchers working on turbulence in fluids, MHD, and plasmas. As implied by the title, the goal of the workshop is to discuss the interaction between regular and fluctuating, large- and small-scale components in turbulent systems and to attempt to understand how - conceptually and practically - one might to attempt to break beyond traditional approaches and make progress in understanding turbulence in space, on Earth, in the laboratory, in the computer or on paper.

Invited Speakers and Their Contributions

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Minicourse Participants and Their Posters

Name Institution PhD or postdoc superviser (if applicable) Thesis topic or research areaPoster title
1Ian AbelImperial College LondonAlex SchekochihinFast particles and Alfven waves in fusion plasmas
2 Andrew Baggaley Newcastle Anvar Shukurov & Carlo Barenghi Fluctuation dynamoThe flux-rope dynamo (pdf, 168 kb)
3Avula Banerji BabuComenius U, BratislavaJozef BrestenskyRotating magnetoconvectionRotating convection with anisotropic diffusivities (pdf, 71 kb)
4 Wouter Bos Ecole Centrale, Lyon N/A Scalar mixing in turbulent flows; two-point closures; particle dispersion; dynamics of spectrally truncated Euler equations; modulated turbulence; magnetohydrodynamic turbulenceStudies of two-dimensional turbulence (preprint)
 5Jozef BrestenskyComenius U, BratislavaN/ARotating magnetoconvectionRotating convection with anisotropic diffusivities (pdf, 71 kb)
6 Miguel Bustamante Warwick Robert Kerr Fluid dynamics, turbulence, gravitation, non-canonical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structures
7Claudio FalconENS, ParisStephan FauveFluctuations in out-of-equilibrium systems
8Jonathan Pietarila GrahamMPI for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-LindauN/ASubgrid modeling for magnetoconvection, solar and other astrophysical applicationsThree regularizations as
subgrid models (pdf, 2.2 Mb)
9Edmund HighcockImperial College LondonAlex SchekochihinMicroinstabilities and turbulence in rotating fusion plasmas
10 Alexey Iskakov UCLA, Imperial & WPI Steve Cowley, Alex Schekochihin & Arkady Tsinober MHD turbulence and dynamo
11Jason LaurieWarwickSergey NazarenkoWave turbulence in almost integrable systemsWave turbulence in one-dimensional nonlinear optics
12Lukas LiechtensteinEcole Centrale, LyonRotating and stratified turbulence
13 Dan Lucas St Andrews David Dritschel Helical vortices and their breakdown into turbulenceHelical vortex equilibria
14 Ruth Nicol Warwick Sandra Chapman Turbulence and non-linear phenomena in natural and laboratory plasmas
15Walter PaulsMPI for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, GöttingenEberhard BodenschatzComplex singularities of the solutions of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations; the bottleneck phenomenon in fully developed turbulence
16Gabriel PlunkUCLASteve CowleyGyrokinetic turbulence and transportPhase-space cascade in two dimensional electrostatic gyrokinetic turbulence
17Brenda QuinnWarwickSergey NazarenkoNonlocal drift-wave/zonal-flow turbulence
18 Klaus Reuter IPP, Garching Frank Jenko Numerical simulations of mechanically driven, turbulent dynamos in spherical geometryNumerical studies of mechanically driven, turbulent dynamos in
spherical geometry
19David SchmoranzerCharles Univ, PragueLadislav SkrbekCryogenic turbulence in helium
20 James Seddon Manchester Tom Mullin Transition to turbulence in pipe flowBifurcation phenomena in pipe flow through a sudden expansion (pdf, 5.6 Mb)
21Farzaneh ShayeganfarSharif Univ of Technology, TehranReza Rahimi TabarEvolution of nanoparticle by turbulent effect
22Dario VincenziUniv of Nice Sophia AntipolisN/ATurbulent flows of dilute polymer solutions 

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