Workshop I: Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics - IPAM

Workshop I: Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Part of the Long Program Grand Challenge Problems in Computational Astrophysics
April 4 - 9, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 4, 2005

Morning Session

08:00
Methodology
08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
John Castor (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
The Radiation Transport Conundrum in Radiation Hydrodynamics.
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Title not available
11:30-12:30
Joseph Monaghan (Monash University)
SPH Lagrangians and consistent gravity smoothing

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Adam Burrows (Princeton University)
Multi-Dimensional Simulations and Physics of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Markus Wetzstein (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)
VINE - a new N-body / SPH code
16:30-17:30
Panel Discussion
17:30-19:00
Wine Reception and Poster Session

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Morning Session

08:00
Methodolgy Cont; Cosmology; Clusters
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Greg Howes (UCLA)
Gradient Particle Magnetohydrodynamics and Adaptive Particle Refinement
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Jose Marti (University of Valencia, Spain)
Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics, and Extragalactic Jets
11:30-12:30
Michael Norman (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Cosmological Fluid Dynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Greg Bryan (Columbia University)
Simulating the First Stars in the Universe
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Mitchell Begelman (University of Colorado)
Simulations of the Intracluster Medium
16:30-17:30
Panel Discussion

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Morning Session

08:00
AGN; Disks; Black Holes; Dynamos
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
John Hawley (University of Virginia)
General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:30
Charles Gammie (University of Illinois)
Relativistic Plasmas Near Black Holes: General Relativistic MHD and Force-Free Electrodynamics.
11:30-12:30
Axel Brandenburg (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics (NORDITA))
Dynamo action in shear flow turbulence

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Juri Toomre (University of Colorado)
Magnetic Dynamo Action in the Solar Convection Zone
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Friedrich Busse (Universität Bayreuth)
Prandtl number dependence of convection driven dynamos in rotating spherical fluid shells
16:30-17:30
Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 7, 2005

Morning Session

08:00
Star Formation; Disk Fragmentation; Cores
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Chris McKee (University of California at Berkeley)
STAR FORMATION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Matthew Bate (University of Exeter)
Star Formation, Fragmentation, and Protoplanets in Discs
11:30-12:00
Paolo Padoan (University of California at San Diego)
Molecular Core Formation in Turbulent Clouds

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:30
Robert Fisher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
The Formation of Brown Dwarfs : A Comparison of SPH and AMR Disk Fragmentation
12:30-14:00
Lunch (hosted by IPAM)
14:00-15:00
Richard Klein (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Recent Advances in the Formation of Low Mass and High Mass Stars from Turbulent Cloud Cores Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Sam Falle (University of Leeds)
Computational Problems in Star Forming Regions
16:30-17:30
Panel Discussion

Friday, April 8, 2005

Morning Session

08:00
Disks; Turbulence; Supernovae
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Paul Woodward (University of Minnesota)
Towards an Improved Numerical Treatment of Turbulence in Astrophysical Flows
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Jim Stone (Princeton University)
Studies of the MRI with a New Godunov Scheme for MHD
11:30-12:30
Marco Velli (University of Florence)
MHD turbulence in the Solar Corona and the Solar Wind

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Philip Marcus (UC Berkeley)
Numerical Simulations of 3D Vortices in Highly-Stratified, Rotating, Shearing Protoplanetary Disks
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Roger Chevalier (University of Virginia)
Instabilities in the Aftermath of Core Collapse Supernovae
16:30-17:30
Panel Discussion

Saturday, April 9, 2005

Morning Session

08:00
Supernovae;Weno Schemes; Space Wheather
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)
High Order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) Schemes and Their Application in Cosmological Simulations
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Gabor Toth (University of Michigan)
The Grand Challenge of Space Weather Prediction
11:30-12:00
Alexei Poludnenko (University of Chicago)
Fluid Flows with High Degree of Expansion and Contraction

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Panel Discussion
14:30
Conclusion
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