Focus Session: Turbulence

Presentations

• Turbulent Viscosity Coefficient in 3-Dimesional Turbulence

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 1:30 PM – March 10, 2008, 1:42 PM

  Authors

  • Hiroshi Shibata

    • Sojo University

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• Exploring the dynamics of the velocity gradient tensor

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 1:42 PM – March 10, 2008, 1:54 PM

  Authors

  • Marco Martins Afonso

    • Dept. of Mech. Engineering - Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD

  • Charles Meneveau

    • Dept. of Mech. Engineering - Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD

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• The Generalized Fractal Dimensions of a 2-D Compressible Turbulence

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 1:54 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Larkin

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Walter Goldburg

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Mahesh Bandi

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Particle Dynamics in Turbulence

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 2:06 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Haitao Xu

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

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• Craig's XY-distribution and the statistics of Lagrangian power in two-dimensional turbulence.

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 2:42 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Colm Connaughton

    • University of Warwick

  • Mahesh Bandi

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Multiscale Sample Entropy of 2D Decaying Turbulence

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 2:54 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ildoo Kim

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Matthew Shtrahman

    • Western Pennsylvania Hospital

  • Xiao Lun Wu

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Conformal invariance in two-dimensional turbulence

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 3:06 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Guido Boffetta

    • University of Torino, Italy

  • Denis Bernard

    • Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

  • Antonio Celani

    • Institut Pasteur, Paris

  • Gregory Falkovich

    • Weizmann Institute, Israel

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• Mixing and entrainment of oceanic overflows: Implications for global climate evolution

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 3:18 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Ecke

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jun Chen

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Philippe Odier

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Michael Rivera

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Experimental Investigation of Homogeneity, Isotropy, and Circulation of the Velocity Field in Buoyancy-Driven Turbulence

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 3:30 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Quan Zhou

    • Department of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Chao Sun

    • Department of Applied Physics, University of Twente

  • Keqing Xia

    • Dept. of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Department of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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• Flow mode transitions in turbulent thermal convection

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 3:42 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Heng-Dong Xi

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Keqing Xia

    • Dept. of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Department of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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• The properties of elastic turbulence in semi-dilute polymer solutions

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 3:54 PM – March 10, 2008, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Yonggun Jun

    • Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Victor Steinberg

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• Geometry of plane Couette flow transitional turbulence

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 4:06 PM – March 10, 2008, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Predrag Cvitanovic

    • Georgia Tech

  • John Gibson

    • Georgia Tech

  • Jonathan Halcrow

    • Georgia Tech

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• The heat transfer of water-based Al$_2$O$_3$ nanofluid in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 4:18 PM – March 10, 2008, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Sheng-Qi Zhou

  • Rui Ni

  • Keqing Xia

    • Dept. of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Department of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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