Workshop II: Turbulent Transport and Mixing - IPAM

Workshop II: Turbulent Transport and Mixing

Part of the Long Program Mathematics of Turbulence
October 13 - 17, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 13, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Annalisa Bracco (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Transport and mixing at the ocean submesoscales in the northern Gulf of Mexico
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Thomas Haine (Johns Hopkins University)
Diagnosing sea-surface temperature dynamics from stochastically-forced fluctuations
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Shane Keating (University of New South Wales)
Estimating turbulent mixing by ocean eddies using superresolved satellite observations

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Guido Boffetta (Università di Torino)
Transport and clustering of motile phytoplankton in turbulent flows
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:20
Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
How swimming microorganisms displace fluid particles
16:30-18:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Alexei Novikov (Pennsylvania State University)
Exit times of diffusions with incompressible drift
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Yao Yao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Mixing and un-mixing by incompressible flows
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Christian Seis (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster)
Optimal bounds on mixing rates

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Jörg Schumacher (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
Numerical studies of mixing in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Xiaoming Wang (Florida State University)
The Rate of Heat Transport in the Vertical Direction at Large Prandtl Number
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Koopman Mode Decomposition, Mesohyperbolicity and Mixing

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
George Haller (ETH Zürich)
Coherent Lagrangian vortices in turbulence
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Francisco Beron - Vera (University of Miami)
Inertial transport near oceanic coherent Lagrangian eddies
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
James McWilliams (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Two-Dimensional Turbulence in Irregular Domains

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh)
Advection-condensation of water vapour in the presence of coherent stirring
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge)
Dispersion in the large-deviation regime

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Alexander Kiselev (Duke University)
Reaction enhancement by chemotaxis
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Wenbo Tang (Arizona State University)
The domain dependence of reaction processes in chaotic flows
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Evelyn Lunasin (U.S. Naval Academy)
Finite determining parameters feedback control for distributed nonlinear dissipative systems – a computational study

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Alexandra Tzella (University of Birmingham)
FKPP fronts in cellular flows: the large-Péclet regime
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Gautam Iyer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Anomalous diffusion of tracer particles in fast cellular flows.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Alexandros Alexakis (École Normale Supérieure)
Bounds on scalar dissipation scale for mixing flows in the presence of steady sources
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire)
Dynamics and Transport in High Rayleigh-Number Porous Medium Convection
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Charles Doering (University of Michigan)
Models & measures of mixing and effective diffusion

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Richard McLaughlin (University of North Carolina)
Bodies, Buoyant Jets and Vortex Rings in Stratification
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Colm-cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge)
Nonlinear optimisation of scalar mixing in plane Poiseuille flow with finite diffusivity
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