Turbulent Mixing and Beyond Workshop

Focused topics of TMBW-2014 are:

• Interfacial Dynamics and Hydrodynamic instabilities (INT):  instabilities of Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Richtmyer-Meshkov, Landau-Darrieus, Saffman-Taylor; formation and evolution of phase boundaries, interfacial mixing.
  
• Turbulence and Mixing (TURB): canonical and non-canonical turbulence, convection, rotating fluids, reactive and supersonic flows, active and passive scalar mixing.
• High Energy Density Physics (HEDP): inertial confinement, magnetic and heavy-ion fusion, Z-pinches, light-material and laser-plasma interaction, non-equilibrium heat transfer, material science, astrophysical applications.
  

Topics of Program "Turbulent Mixing and Beyond" include:

• Turbulence and Mixing (TURB): invariant, scaling, spectral properties, scalar transports, convection
  
• Wall-Bounded Flows (WALLS): structure and fundamentals, non-canonical turbulent boundary layers, including unsteady and transitional flows, supersonic and hypersonic flows, shock-boundary layer interactions
• Non-Equilibrium Processes (NON): 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 (INT): the instabilities of Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Richtmyer-Meshkov, Landau-Darrieus, Saffman-Taylor
• High Energy Density Physics (HEDP): inertial confinement and heavy-ion fusion, Z-pinches, light-material and laser-plasma interaction, non-equilibrium heat transfer
• Material Science (MS): material transformation under high strain rates, equation of state, impact dynamics, mixing at nano- and micro-scales
• Astrophysics (AST): supernovae, interstellar medium, star formation, stellar interiors, early Universe, cosmic-microwave background, accretion disks
• Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD): magnetic fusion and magnetically confined plasmas, magneto-convection, magneto-rotational instability, dynamo
• Canonical Plasmas (PLA): coupled plasmas, anomalous resistance, ionosphere
• Physics of Atmosphere (ATM): environmental fluid dynamics, forecasting, turbulent flows in stratified media and atmosphere
• Geophysics and Earth Science (GEO): mantle-lithosphere tectonics, oceanography, turbulent convection under rotation, planetary interiors
• Combustion (COMB): 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 (MATH): vortex dynamics, singularities, discontinuities, asymptotic dynamics, weak solutions, well- and ill-posedness, continuous transports out of thermodynamic equilibrium
• Stochastic Processes and Probabilistic Description (STO): long-tail distributions and anomalous diffusion, data assimilation and processing methodologies, error estimate and uncertainty quantification, statistically unsteady processes
• Advanced Numerical Simulations (NUM): continuous DNS/LES/RANS, Molecular dynamics, Monte-Carlo, predictive modeling, validation and verification of numerical models
• Experimental Diagnostics (EXP): 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