Workshop II: Turbulent Transport and Mixing

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

Schedule


Monday, October 13, 2014
9:00 - 9:50
10:15 - 11:05
11:30 - 12:20
2:00 - 2:50
3:30 - 4:20
Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

How swimming microorganisms displace fluid particles
PDF Presentation

Tuesday, October 14, 2014
9:00 - 9:50
Alexei Novikov (Pennsylvania State University)

Exit times of diffusions with incompressible drift

10:15 - 11:05
Yao Yao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Mixing and un-mixing by incompressible flows

 
11:30 - 12:20
Christian Seis (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Optimal bounds on mixing rates

 
2:00 - 2:50
Joerg Schumacher (Technische Universität Ilmenau)

Numerical studies of mixing in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

 
3:15 - 4:05
4:30 - 5:20
Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))

Koopman Mode Decomposition, Mesohyperbolicity and Mixing

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2014
9:00 - 9:50
10:15 - 11:05
Francisco Beron - Vera (University of Miami)

Inertial transport near oceanic coherent Lagrangian eddies

11:30 - 12:20
James McWilliams (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Two-Dimensional Turbulence in Irregular Domains

2:30 - 3:20
4:00 - 4:50
Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge)

Dispersion in the large-deviation regime
PDF Presentation

 

Thursday, October 16, 2014
9:00 - 9:50
Alexander Kiselev (Rice University)

Reaction enhancement by chemotaxis

 
10:15 - 11:05
11:30 - 12:20
2:30 - 3:20
Alexandra Tzella (University of Birmingham)

FKPP fronts in cellular flows: the large-Péclet regime

 
4:00 - 4:50

Friday, October 17, 2014
9:00 - 9:50
10:15 - 11:05
11:30 - 12:20
Charles Doering (University of Michigan)

Models & measures of mixing and effective diffusion

2:00 - 2:50
Richard McLaughlin (University of North Carolina)

Bodies, Buoyant Jets and Vortex Rings in Stratification

 
3:15 - 4:05