Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

Second International Conference and Advanced School

I.   Invited lectures and contributed talks on

• Canonical Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing: invariant, scaling, spectral properties, scalar transports, convection
  
• Wall-Bounded Flows: structure 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 computing: cyber-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