TMBW 07 - Program

08.30 – 08.50 Anna L. Mazzucato, Vanishing viscosity limit for 2D flows in an
unsteadily rotating circle

08.50 – 9.30 Vladimir L. Saveliev, Group-theoretical model of developed turbulence
and renormalization of the Naiver-Stokes equation

09.30 – 10.10 Evgenii A. Kuznetsov, Spectra of turbulence generated by singularities

10.30 – 11.00            Hiroshi Azechi, From physics understanding of the ablative
                                Rayleigh-Taylor instability to impact fast ignition.
                                Talk is given by Katsunobu Nishihara.

11.00 – 12.00            Yefim Aglitskiy, Classical and ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov and
                                Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities and other ICF-relevant plasma flows
                                diagnosed with monochromatic X-ray imaging (tutorial).

Themes:                   Turbulent mixing, Turbulence,
                                Mathematical aspects of multi-scale dynamics
Session Chair:          Katsunobu Nishihara

14.40 – 15.20 Saleh Tanveer, Divergent series, Borel summation and
3-D Naiver-Stokes equation

15.20 – 16.00 Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Resolution effects in direct numerical
simulations of turbulence

Themes:                   Interfacial dynamics, Advanced Numerical Simulations,
                                Mathematical aspects of multi-scale dynamics
Session Chair:        P.K. Yeung

16.30 – 17.00 Riccardo Bonazza, Experimental and numerical investigation of
shock-induced distortion of a spherical gas inhomogeneity

17.00 – 17.30 Xiaolin Li, Study of instability driven mixing using
improved tracking and transport control

17.30 – 18.00 Norman J. Zabusky, Vortex processes in accelerated inhomogeneous
flows

18.00 – 18.30 Anthony Weatherhead, Numerical simulation using high-resolution
methods

09.30 – 10.10 Steven Cowley, The origin of magnetic fields in the universe
and the turbulent dynamo

10.30 – 11.10 Moshe Matalon, Effect of background turbulence on the
propagation of large-scale flames

11.10 – 11.40 Natalia Valdimirova, Numerical study of reactive
Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence

11.40 – 12.10 Jean Francois de Haas, Hot wire, laser Doppler measurements and
visualization of shock induced turbulent mixing zones

14.00 – 14.30 Ryo Onishi, Retrieval of collision kernels from the change of droplet
size distributions with a simple inversion scheme

14.30 – 15.00 Xiangyu Hu, Vorticity production and mixing in shock bubble interaction

15.00 – 15.30 Sergei Chumakov, Scaling properties of sub-grid-scale
energy dissipation and sub-grid-scale scalar dissipation

16.30 – 17.00 Robert Fisher, Large-scale simulation of weakly-compressible
turbulence

Themes:                 Turbulence, Interfacial dynamics,
                              Mathematical Aspects of Multi-scale dynamics
Session Chair:        Snezhana I. Abarzhi

08.30 – 09.00 Chihiro Matsuoka, Nonlinear behavior of a vortex sheet in
incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with cylindrical geometry

09.00 – 09.30 Walter I. Goldburg, The third-order Eulerian structure function in
free surface turbulence

09.30 – 10.10 David Campbell, The Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) problem:
solitons, ILMS, q-breathers and mixing

10.10 – 10.30 break

Theme: Turbulence
Session Chair: Charlie R. Doering

10.30 – 11.00 Bertran Rolli n, Spatio-temporal investigation of the scalar gradients in
correlation to the local topology of a turbulent flow

11.00 – 11.40 P.K. Yeung, Developments in large numerical simulations of
turbulence: resolution, intermittency, and Schmidt number scaling

11.40 – 12.20 Vladimir E. Zakharov, Wind-driven sea and atmospheric
boundary layer

12.20 – 14.00 lunch

Theme: Turbulence
Session Chair: Snezhana I. Abarzhi

14.00 – 14.40 Joseph Niemela, Features of thermal turbulent convection at
very high Rayleigh numbers

14.40 – 15.20 Gregory Falkovich, Mixing and segregation in two-phase flows

15.20 – 16.00 Daniel P. Lathrop, The effects of rotation and magnetic fields
on turbulence

16.00 – 16.30 break

Theme: Turbulence and Turbulent mixing
Session Chair: Hassan Nagib

16.30 – 17.00 Israel J. Wygnanski, On periodically excited turbulent mixing layer
created downstream of a lane chevron partition

17.00 – 17.30 Lipo Wang, Dissipation element analysis of turbulence

17.30 – 18.00 Robert E. Breidenthal, The effect of acceleration on
turbulent entrainment

18.00 – 18.40 Robert Ecke, Turbulence in gravity-driven stratified layers:
understanding oceanic overflows using laboratory experiments

19.00 – 21.00 dinner

22 August 2007, Wednesday

Themes: Astrophysics, High energy density physics
Session Chair: Steven Cowley

08.30 – 09.00 Robert Bingham, Shock wave revival and turbulent mixing in
supernovae explosions

09.00 – 09.30 Vikram V. Dwarkadas, SN evolution in massive star winds,
and associated hydrodynamic instabilities

09.30 – 10.10 R. Paul. Drake, Approaches to turbulence in
high-energy-density experiments

10.10 – 10.30 break

Theme: Turbulent mixing, High energy density physics
Session Chair: Moshe Matalon

10.40 – 11.20 Berni Alder, Atomistic simulation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

11.20 – 12.00 Sergey Lebedev, Experimental study of supersonic plasma jets

12.10 – 14.00 lunch

Theme:                   Experimental diagnostics
Session Chair:         Sergey Lebedev

14.00 – 15.00          George Barbastathis, Holographic three-dimensional imaging (tutorial)

15.00 – 16.00 Sergei S. Orlov, New technologies for fluid dynamics experiment
and diagnostics (tutorial)

16.00 – 16.30 break

Theme:                   Interfacial dynamics, Turbulent mixing,
                              Advanced numerical simulations
Session Chair:       Sergei Orlov (Snezhana I. Abarzhi)

16.30 – 17.00 Tov Elperin, Experimental study of mixing at the external boundary
of a submerged jet (talk is given by Alexander Eidelman)

17.00 – 17.30 Baolian Cheng, Multiphase flow model for the unstable mixing of
layered incompressible materials

17.30 – 18.00 Eli Leinov, Investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
under re-shock conditions

18.00 – 18.30 Thomas A. Ota, Shock tube experiment: half height dense gas region

23 August 2007, Thursday

Themes: Advanced numerical simulations
Session Chair: Silviana di Sabatino

08.30 – 09.00 Daniel M. Israel, Adapting moment closure for large-eddy simulation of
variable density turbulence

09.00 – 09.30 Oleg V. Troshkin, On the theory of periodic layer in incompressible fluid

09.30 – 10.00 Oleg M. Belotserkovskiy, On structural analysis of turbulence

10.10 – 10.30 break

Theme: Magneto-hydrodynamics
Session Chair: Terrence O'Kane

10.30 – 11.00 Stephan Fauve, Chaotic dynamos generated by turbulent flows

11.00 – 11.30 Edgar Knobloch, Saturation of the magneto-rotational instability:
asymptotically exact theory

11.30 – 12.10 Alexander Obabko, Magneto-rotational instability,
turbulence and dynamo

12.10 – 14.00 lunch

Theme:                   Wall-bounded flows, Advanced numerical simulations
Session Chair:       Vladimir L. Saveliev

14.00 – 14.40           Victor Lvov, Large fundamentals of wall bounded turbulence

14.40 – 15.20           Hassan Nagib, High Reynolds number wall-bounded turbulence,
                               the approach to an asymptotic state and international consortium at
                               CICLoPE

15.20 – 15.50 A. Sameen, The DNS of thermal convection at moderate Rayleigh
numbers under strongly non-Boussinesq conditions

16.00 – 16.30 break

Theme: Round Table Discussions

16.30 – 18.30 Round Tables on theory, experiments, simulations

24 August 2007, Friday

Themes: Material Science, Plasmas, Interfacial dynamics
Session Chair: Victor Lvov

08.30 – 09.00 Edward Son, Rayleigh-Taylor instability and mixing in micro- and
nanohydrodynamics

09.00 – 10.00          Min-Chen Lee, Ionospheric plasma turbulence triggered over
                            Puerto Rico via Rayleigh-Taylor instability by tsunami-launched
                              acoustic gravity waveson December 24, 2004

10.00 – 10.30 Jose M. Redondo, Mixing in non-homogeneous Rayleigh-Taylor
driven turbulent flows

10.30 coffee served

10.30 – 12.00 POSTER session: poster contributions can be found below

12.00 – 14.00 lunch

Themes: Physics of Atmosphere
Session Chair: Edgar Knobloch

14.00 – 14.40            Terrence O’Kane, A comparison of statistical dynamical and ensemble
                                prediction methods during the formation of large-scale coherent
                                structures in the atmosphere

14.40 – 15.20            Joseph Werne, Atmospheric turbulence forecasting: promising new
                                approaches based on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and the
                                high-resolution simulations and observations needed to make them
                                work

15.20 – 16.00 Silviana di Sabatino, Turbulent mixing in the environment and
impacts beyond its scale

16.00 – 16.30 break

Themes: Geophysics, Mathematical aspects of multi-scale dynamics
Session Chair: Joseph Werne

16.30 – 17.00 Boris Galperin, Zonostrophic turbulence (Adriatico)

17.00 – 17.30 Alexander V. Straube, Mixing-induced global modes in open reactive
flows

17.30 – 18.00 Semion Sukorianskiy, Anisotropic turbulence and internal waves in
stably stratified flows (QNSE theory)

18.00 – 18.40 Yasuhide Fukumoto, Elliptical instability of a vortex tube and drift
current induced by it.

25 August 2007, Saturday

Theme: Wall-bounded flows
Session Chair: Sergei S. Orlov

08.30 – 09.00 Nina Yurchenko, Speculation about near-wall turbulence scales

09.00 – 09.30 Alexander Baryshnikov, Baroclinic turbulence of dissociating gas
as a reason for instability of bow shock wave

09.30 – 10.00 Prasad Perlekar, The modification of decaying, homogeneous,
isotropic turbulent flows by polymer additives

10.00 – 10.30 break

Themes: Interfacial dynamics, Advanced numerical simulations
Session Chair: Naeem Tahir

10.30 – 11.10 Dale I. Pullin, Large-eddy simulations of shock-generated mixing in
Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

11.10 – 11.40 Sergei I. Anisimov, Molecular dynamics simulation of the Rayleigh-
Taylor instability

11.40 – 12.10            Snezhana I. Abarzhi, Multi-scale character of the nonlinear
                              dynamics of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov
                                unstable fluid interface mixing

12.10 – 14.00 lunch

Theme: High energy density physics
Session Chair:

14.00 – 14.40 Naeem A. Tahir, Studies of high energy density states in matter using
intense heavy ion beams: the HED-ge-HOB collaboration

14.40 – 15.20 Paul Clavin, Instabilities and nonlinear patterns of thermal fronts:
gaseous flames, detonations, ablation fronts in ICF…

15.20 – 16.00 Franco Porcelli, Magnetic reconnection and chaotic behavior
in plasmas

16.00 – 16.30 break

Theme: Advanced numerical simulations, Geophysics
Session Chair: Semion Sukorianskiy

16.30 – 17.00 Andrew J. Aspden, Characterization of implicit LES methods

17.00 – 17.30            Alexander Eidelman, Experimental study of mixing,
                               coherent structures and hysteresis phenomenon in
                                turbulent convection (post-deadline)

17.30 – 18.00            Summary:
                                Carlo Fonda, Malcolm J. Andrews, Serge Gauthier,
                                Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Snezhana I. Abarzhi

19.00 – 21.00 Reception

Some of Poster Presentations

- Árpád Bordás
Vertical Turbulent Mixing Model for the Convective Boundary Layer

- Christoph Federrath
Turbulent Mixing in the Interstellar Medium - an application
for Lagrangian Tracer Particles

- Rattana Chong
Linear growth rate for Kelvin-Helmholtz instability appearing
in a moving mixing layer

- Giovanni Pinzon Estrada
Spin evolution in young low mass stars

- Petr Kulhánek
Simulations of the DD fusion reaction

- S.E. Kuratov
On the Possibility of the Hydrodynamic Instabilities
growth studies in 2D Flows

- K. Levy
The shock bubble interaction: Circulation and the multiple
bubble array

- Victor S. L'vov
Analytic Model of the Universal Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers


- Stephan Lugomer
Rogue Waves Generated in Laser-Matter Interaction

- Carlos L. Pando Lambruschini
1/f noise in a stochastic layer solution in the DNLSE

- Mohamed Omri
2D large eddy simulations of turbulent boundary buoyant flow in a cavity

- Thomas Peters
Radiation-Gasdynamical Simulations of Star Formation

- Masoud Ziaei Rad
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Unsteady Compressible 
Pipe Flow with Heat Addition

- Devesh Ranjan
Experimental and numerical investigation of shock-induced
distortion of a spherical gas inhomogeneity

- Jean-Daniel Ruedi
CICLoPE - a response to the need for high Reynolds number experiments

- Zulfiqar A. Shah
Hydrodynamic instabilities in astrophysics and in 
laboratory high-energy-density systems

- Hiroki Suzuki
Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Mixing in Grid-generated Turbulence

- Martin Zacek
2-D PIC simulation of the heating in the plasma fiber

- Yaroslav Zagumenniy
Numerical simulation of turbulent boundary layers affected by localized plasma patches

- J. Zhang
On the Evolution of Thermonuclear Flames on Large Scales

The Book of Abstracts can be found Here .

The printable version of the Conference Program can be found Here .

The Organizing Committee thanks Dag Johannessen, Suzie Radosic and Anne Gatti from the ICTP for their valuable assitance with the Conference organization.

We appreciate the valuable help of Adrea Stefani, Daniela Giombi, Muhammad Iqbal and Carlo Fonda from the ICTP for their help with the Conference logistics.

We thank Dilys Grilli and Guido Comar from Publication Office at the ICTP, Marco Zenarro from Science Dissimenation Unit at the ICTP, and Elena Magnus (Chicago, USA) for their valuable assistance with the publication of
the Conference Program and the Book of Abstracts.

The Conference Proceedings are published as a topical issue of the Physica Scripta.

Some of the lectures are published as overview articles in a Theme Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

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