updated 08/10/05

Tentative Agenda


(updated: July 7, 2005)

Monday, 11 July

7:40 University of Colordado (CU) bus will depart promptly to transport participants from the College Inn to NCAR
8:00-9:00 Registration and continental breakfast
9:00-10:00 Waves and vortices in rotating statified turbulence
Peter Bartello, McGill University
10:00-10:30 Unified scaling law for local and non-local enstrophy transfers in generalized two-dimensional turbulence
Takeshi Watanabe, Nagoya Institute of Technology
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Multiscalar mixing in Kelvin-Helmholtz billows
Bill Smyth, Oregon State University
11:30-12:00 Vortices in a stratified layer with horizontal shear
Sutanu Sarkar, University of California, San Diego
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Mechanisms of interactions between a coherent structure and turbulence
Fazle Hussain, University of Houston
14:00-15:00 Dynamics of rotating turbulence with and without stable stratification: Statistical theory versus stability analysis
Claude Cambon, LMFA, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Formation and break-down of large-scale vortices in 2D confined turbulence
Herman Clercx, Eindhoven University of Technology
16:30-17:00 Effects of stable stratification on vortex pair dynamics
Keiko Nomura, University of California, San Diego
17:15 Group photo
17:45 CU bus back to the College Inn

Tuesday, 12 July

8:40 CU will departs promptly from the College Inn to NCAR
9:00-10:00 The persistence of balance in rotating stratified turbulence
David Dritschel, University of St. Andrews
10:00-10:30 Internal solitary wave-induced global instability in shallow water benthic boundary layers
Peter Diamessis, University of Southern California
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Wavelet-based multiscale approach to extract coherent vortices, analyze transfer and compute homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Marie Farge, LMD-IPSL-CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure
11:30-12:00 Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) accelerated inhomogeneous flows: Experiment, analysis & computation
Norman Zabusky, Rutgers University
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Coherent structures in fluid mechanics: Their role in mixing and transport in environmental flows
Joe Fernando, Arizona State University
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00 Simulations of the energy cascade in a strongly stratified fluid
Erik Lindborg, KTH, Department of Mechanics
16:00 - Hiking CU Bus back to College Inn at 16:15 AND at 18:00

Wednesday, 13 July

8:40 CU will departs promptly from the College Inn to NCAR
9:00-10:00 The formation and stability of 3D vortices in stratified flows
Philip Marcus, University of California, Berkeley
10:00-10:30 Stable patterns of surface waves in deep water
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado, Boulder
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Instability of co-rotating vertical vortices in a stratified fluid
Jean-Marc Chomaz, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX)
11:30-12:00 Energetics of a field of submesoscale vortices resulting from the relaxation of diapycnal mixing event
Pascale Lelong, NorthWest Research Associates
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Asymmetrization of jet profiles in beta-plane turbulence
Keiichi Ishioka, Kyoto University
14:00-15:00 Wave-vortex duality: Repairing an Einsteinian mismatch
Michael McIntyre, University of Cambridge
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00 High-order adaptive spectral element simulation of decaying 2D turbulence: a multiresolution perspective
Aimé Fournier, NCAR
16:00-17:00 Poster Talks (approximately 2 minutes per person to discuss their poster presentation)
17:00-18:15 Poster Session
18:30 Bus to College Inn for participants NOT attending the banquet
18:00-20:15 Banquet
20:30 Bus to College Inn for banquet participants

Thursday, 14 July

8:40 CU will departs promptly from the College Inn to NCAR
9:00-10:00 Coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence
David Montgomery, Dartmouth College
10:00-10:30 Large scale structures and energy transfer in hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Pablo Mininni, NCAR
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Turbulence in strongly-stratified fluids
James Riley, University of Washington
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Isotropic LANS-alpha equations for anistropic turbulent flow simulations
Kamran Mohseni, University of Colorado
14:00-15:00 Wave and vortex motions in stably-stratified fluids
Geoff Spedding, University of Southern California
15:00-15:30 Structure formation in stratified turbulence
Yoshi Kimura, Nagoya University
15:30 Workshop Adjourns
15:45 CU Bus back to College Inn