Turbulent Mixing and Beyond
International Conference
August 18-26, 2007The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Turbulent Mixing and BeyondInternational ConferenceAugust 18-26, 2007The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy |
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Objectives of the Conference and Outline of ThemesThe goals of the Conference are
to expose the generic problem of Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing in
Unsteady Flows to a wide scientific community, to promote the
development of new ideas in tackling the fundamental aspects of the
problem, to assist in application of novel approaches in a broad range
of phenomena, where the turbulent processes occur, and to have a
potential impact on technology.
The Conference provides the opportunity
to bring together scientists from the areas, which include but not
limited to high energy density physics, plasmas, fluid dynamics,
turbulence, combustion, material science, geophysics, astrophysics,
optics and telecommunications, applied mathematics, probability and
statistics, and to have their attention focused on the long-standing
formidable task.
The Turbulent Mixing and Turbulence in Unsteady Flows,
including multiphase flows, plays a key role in a wide variety of
phenomena, ranging from astrophysical to nano-scales, under either high
or low energy density conditions. Inertial confinement and magnetic
fusion, light-matter interaction and non-equilibrium heat transfer,
properties of materials under high strain rates, strong shocks,
explosions, blast waves, supernovae and accretion disks, stellar
non-Boussinesq and magneto-convection, planetary interiors and
mantle-lithosphere tectonics, premixed and non-premixed combustion,
oceanography, atmospheric flows, unsteady boundary layers, hypersonic
and supersonic flows, are a few examples to list. A grip on unsteady
turbulent processes is crucial for cutting-edge technology such as
laser micro-machining and free-space optical
telecommunications, and for industrial applications in areas of
aeronautics and aerodynamics.
Unsteady Turbulent Processes
are anisotropic, non-local and multi-scale, and their fundamental
scaling, spectral and invariant properties differ from those of
classical Kolmogorov turbulence. The singular aspect and similarity of
the mixing dynamics are interplayed with fundamental properties of the
Euler and compressible Navier-Stokes equations, with the problem
sensitivity to the boundary conditions at the discontinuities and the
initial conditions, and with its stochastic description. The
state-of-the-art numerical simulations of the multi-phase
non-equilibrium dynamics suggest new methods for capturing
discontinuities and singularities and shock-interface interaction, for
predictive modeling of the multi-scale dynamics in fluids and plasmas,
for error estimate and uncertainty quantification as well as for novel
data assimilation techniques.
The Conference is structured
to encourage the participants’ communications with experts from
different fields, to promote the exchange of ideas and suggestion of
open problems, and to impel the discussions of rigorous mathematical
issues, theoretical approaches and state-of-the-art numerical
simulations along with advanced experimental techniques and
technological applications. The sessions are intended to run
sequentially.
The Organizing Committee
hopes the International Conference "Turbulent Mixing and Beyond" will serve to advance the state-of-the-art in
understanding of fundamental physical properties of turbulent mixing
and turbulence in unsteady flows and will potentially have an impact on
predictive modeling capabilities, physical description and, ultimately,
control of the complex turbulent processes.
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