Instabilities, Turbulence and Nonlinear Flows

Presentations

• Search for the ``ultimate state" in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection for Rayleigh numbers up to $4\times 10^{13}$ and Prandtl numbers near 0.8.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Guenter Ahlers

    • UCSB
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Denis Funfschilling

    • CNRS Nancy

  • Eberhard Bodenschatz

    • MPI for Dyn. and Self-org., Goettingen

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• Large-scale circulation and Nusselt number in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Jin-Qiang Zhong

    • UCSB

  • Richard Stevens

    • U. Twente

  • Herman Clercx

    • Eindhoven U. Tech.

  • Detlef Lohse

    • U. Twente

  • Guenter Ahlers

    • UCSB

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• Geometry of turbulence: a stroll through 61,506 dimensions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Predrag Cvitanovic

    • Georgia Tech

  • John F. Gibson

    • Georgia Tech

  • Jonathan Halcrow

    • Inst. for Physical Sciences, McLean, VA 22101

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• Lagrangian and Eulerian Turbulence: intermittency and Universality

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Luca Biferale

    • University of Rome

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• Large-eddy simulation of swirling reacting flows

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Marcel Ilie

    • University of California San Diego

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• Methods to Approach Velocity Data Reduction and Their Effects on Conformation Statistics in Viscoelastic Turbulent Channel Flows

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Gaurab Samanta

    • University of Delaware

  • Antony Beris

    • Professor Dept. of Chemical Engr.
    • University of Delaware

  • Robert Handler

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Kostas Housiadas

    • Aegean University, Greece

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• Study of Influence of Rapid Pressure in MHD Turbulence

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Saikishan Suryanarayanan

    • Texas A\&M University

  • Aarthi Sekaran

    • Texas A\&M University

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• Anisotropic Particles in Fluid Flow

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Monica Kishore

    • Haverford College

  • Nicholas T. Ouellette

    • Yale University

  • Jerry Gollub

    • Haverford College

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• Statistics of preferential particle concentration in free-surface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Jason Larkin

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Walter Goldburg

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Mahesh Bandi

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Center for Nonlinear Studies and Condensed Matter \& Thermal Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Vortex Street behind an Oscillating Wire on a Soap Film

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Aaron Meyer

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Ildoo Kim

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • X.L. Wu

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Univ.of Pittsburgh

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• An Anomalous Behavior in Vortex Shedding in a Flowing Soap Film

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Ildoo Kim

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • X.L. Wu

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Univ.of Pittsburgh

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• Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Nonlinear Optics

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Shu Jia

    • Princeton University

  • Jason W. Fleischer

    • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    • Princeton University

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• Dispersive shock waves with negative pressure

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Wenjie Wan

    • Princeton University

  • Dmitri Dylov

    • Princeton University

  • Christopher Barsi

    • Princeton University

  • Jason W. Fleischer

    • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    • Princeton University

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• Convective instability in pipe flow through a sudden expansion

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • James Seddon

    • University of Manchester

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