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.


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Minicourse Participants and Their Posters

	Name	Institution	PhD or postdoc superviser (if applicable)	Thesis topic or research area	Poster title
1	Ian Abel	Imperial College London	Alex Schekochihin	Fast particles and Alfven waves in fusion plasmas
2	Andrew Baggaley	Newcastle	Anvar Shukurov & Carlo Barenghi	Fluctuation dynamo	The flux-rope dynamo (pdf, 168 kb)
3	Avula Banerji Babu	Comenius U, Bratislava	Jozef Brestensky	Rotating magnetoconvection	Rotating 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 turbulence	Studies of two-dimensional turbulence (preprint)
5	Jozef Brestensky	Comenius U, Bratislava	N/A	Rotating magnetoconvection	Rotating convection with anisotropic diffusivities (pdf, 71 kb)
6	Miguel Bustamante	Warwick	Robert Kerr	Fluid dynamics, turbulence, gravitation, non-canonical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structures
7	Claudio Falcon	ENS, Paris	Stephan Fauve	Fluctuations in out-of-equilibrium systems
8	Jonathan Pietarila Graham	MPI for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau	N/A	Subgrid modeling for magnetoconvection, solar and other astrophysical applications	Three regularizations as subgrid models (pdf, 2.2 Mb)
9	Edmund Highcock	Imperial College London	Alex Schekochihin	Microinstabilities and turbulence in rotating fusion plasmas
10	Alexey Iskakov	UCLA, Imperial & WPI	Steve Cowley, Alex Schekochihin & Arkady Tsinober	MHD turbulence and dynamo
11	Jason Laurie	Warwick	Sergey Nazarenko	Wave turbulence in almost integrable systems	Wave turbulence in one-dimensional nonlinear optics
12	Lukas Liechtenstein	Ecole Centrale, Lyon		Rotating and stratified turbulence
13	Dan Lucas	St Andrews	David Dritschel	Helical vortices and their breakdown into turbulence	Helical vortex equilibria
14	Ruth Nicol	Warwick	Sandra Chapman	Turbulence and non-linear phenomena in natural and laboratory plasmas
15	Walter Pauls	MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Göttingen	Eberhard Bodenschatz	Complex singularities of the solutions of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations; the bottleneck phenomenon in fully developed turbulence
16	Gabriel Plunk	UCLA	Steve Cowley	Gyrokinetic turbulence and transport	Phase-space cascade in two dimensional electrostatic gyrokinetic turbulence
17	Brenda Quinn	Warwick	Sergey Nazarenko	Nonlocal drift-wave/zonal-flow turbulence
18	Klaus Reuter	IPP, Garching	Frank Jenko	Numerical simulations of mechanically driven, turbulent dynamos in spherical geometry	Numerical studies of mechanically driven, turbulent dynamos in spherical geometry
19	David Schmoranzer	Charles Univ, Prague	Ladislav Skrbek	Cryogenic turbulence in helium
20	James Seddon	Manchester	Tom Mullin	Transition to turbulence in pipe flow	Bifurcation phenomena in pipe flow through a sudden expansion (pdf, 5.6 Mb)
21	Farzaneh Shayeganfar	Sharif Univ of Technology, Tehran	Reza Rahimi Tabar	Evolution of nanoparticle by turbulent effect
22	Dario Vincenzi	Univ of Nice Sophia Antipolis	N/A	Turbulent flows of dilute polymer solutions

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