2011 Lecture Series Schedule
"Shear Turbulence: Onset and Structure" - June 20 - August 26
Week 1
Introductory lectures will be a total of 2 hours each with a short break.
Monday, June 20 - 9:50 AM
Introduction
Norman Lebovitz and Philip Morrison, GFD Co-Directors
Lecture 1 - 10:00 AM
General Introduction and Overview
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 10:50 – 11:50 AM
Tuesday, June 21 - Lecture 2 - 10:00 AM
Viscous derivation of classic inviscid stability results for shear flows. Viscous instability.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 10:50 – 11:50 AM
Wednesday, June 22 - Lecture 3 - 10:00 AM
Diffusion and damping in shear flows: a truly singular limit. Critical layers.
Fabian Waleffe University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Thursday, June 23 - Lecture 4 - 10:00 AM
Origin and survival of 3D-ality.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Friday, June 24 - Lecture 5 - 10:00 AM
Instability of streaky flows. Asymptotics of self-sustaining process.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Week 2
Monday, June 27 - Lecture 6
Spatio-temporal complexity. Spots, puffs and slugs, snakes and spirals.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
2:30 PM
Structures of low-Reynolds-number turbulence in a rectangular duct.
Genta Kawahara, Osaka University
Tuesday, June 28 - Lecture 7 - 10:00 AM
Transition scenarios: normality vs non-normality.
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Wednesday, June 29 - Lecture 8 - 10:00 AM
Edge tracking -- walking the tightrope.
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Thursday, June 30 - Lecture 9 - 10:00 AM
Triggering transition efficiently.
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
2:30 PM
Vortex-wave interactions/self-sustained processes in shear flows.
Phillip Hall, Imperial College London
Friday, July 1 - Lecture 10 - 10:00 AM
Turbulence: transient or sustained?
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 - 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Week 3
Monday, July 4
HOLIDAY – INSTITUTION CLOSED
Tuesday, July 5
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Surface-wave mediated instability of submesoscale ocean fronts.
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Gravity currents in rotating fluid.
Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wednesday, July 6
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Ultimate state of two-dimensional Rayleigh-B/’enard convection between free-slip fixed-temperature boundaries.
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Global stability analysis of fluid flows using Sum-of Squares of polynominals.
Sergei Chernyshenko, Imperial College, London
Thursday, July 7
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Generation of magnetic fields by convection in rotating spherical fluid shells.
Friedrich Busse, University of Bayreuth
Friday, July 8
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Geographically localized coastal trapped waves.
Ted Johnson, University College London
Week 4
Monday, July 11
No lecture scheduled today.
Tuesday, July 12
10:00 – 10:50 AM
From Swift-Hohenberg to Navier-Stokes: Localization in Plane Couette Flow.
Tobias Schneider, Harvard University
Wednesday, July 13
10:00 – 10:50 AM
The nonhydrostatic balanced geostrophic equations: the interplay between convective and barotropic dynamics.
Keith Julien, University of Colorado at Boulder
Thursday, July 14
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Landau damping as a universal description of dissipation.
George Hagstrom, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, July 15
10:00 – 10:50 AM
New modes of haline convection.
Raymond Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Week 5
Monday, July 18
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Zonostrophic turbulence, zonal jets and the mixing barriers.
Boris Galperin, University of South Florida
Tuesday, July 19
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Anisotropic inverse cascade towards zonal jets in shallow water dynamics.
Alexander Balk, University of Utah
Wednesday, July 20
10:00 – 10:50 AM
A hierarchy of PDE models for rotating stratified flows.
Leslie Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Determining macroscopic diffusivity from T, S data: an ongoing study.
George Veronis, Yale University
Thursday, July 21
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Pseudo spectral reduction of 2D turbulence.
John Bowman, University of Alberta
Friday, July 22
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Cross-equatorial transport of Antarctic Bottom Water under the complete Coriolis force.
Andrew Stewart, Corpus Christi College
Week 6
Monday, July 25
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Gyroviscous effects in Braginski magnetohydrodynamic flow between parallel planes.
Paul Dellar, University of Oxford
Tuesday, July 26
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’s interior and dispose of radioactive waste.
Jesse Ausubel, Rockefeller University
Wednesday, July 27
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Landau damping as a universal source of dissipation.
George Hagstrom, University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, July 28
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Stability of vortex and wave flows from bifurcation diagrams exploiting a variational argument.
Paolo Luzzato-Fegiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Friday, July 29
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Coherent vortices in plane Couette flow – bifurcation, symmetry and visualization.
Tomoaki Itano, Kansai University
Week 7
Monday, August 1
10:00 – 10:50 AM
The spring bloom in the oceans.
Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tuesday, August 2
10:00 – 10:50 AM
EZ-stability of beta-plane Kolmogorov flow with drag.
Yue-Kin Tsang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Stability of swirling flows.
Sherwin Maslowe, McGill University
Wednesday, August 3
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Questioning the question: The role of nonlinear optimal perturbations in the transition to turbulence of plane Couette flow.
Colm-cille Caulfield, University of Cambridge
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Spatio-temporal chaos in shear flows.
Bruno Eckhardt, Phillips Universitat Marburg
Thursday, August 4
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Optimal path to turbulence in shear flows.
Dan Henningson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2:00 – 5:00 PM – Public Lecture, Redfield Auditorium, reception to follow
On growth and form: geometry, physics and biology.
Lakshiminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
Friday, August 5
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Simplifying the complexity of turbulent shear flow.
Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
11:00 – 11:50 AM
On first looking into Chapman and Cowling.
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Week 8
Monday, August 8
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Instabilities and transitions of rotor-stator flows.
Patrice LeGal, IRPHE, France
Tuesday, August 9
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Topological detection of Lagrangian coherent structures.
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, August 10
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Flow through a sudden expansion in a pipe.
Tom Mullin, University of Manchester
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Unbalanced surface dynamics.
Gualtiero Badin, Boston University
Thursday, August 11
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Laminar –turbulent patterns in plane Couette flow.
Laurette Tuckerman, PMMH-ESPCI, France
Friday, August 12
10:00 – 10:50 AM
What Phil Morrison wouldn’t teach us: how to reduce the symmetry of pipe flows.
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
Week 9 – No lectures scheduled this week
Monday, August 15
Tuesday, August 16
Wednesday, August 17
Thursday, August 18
Friday, August 19
Week 10 – FELLOWS’ PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 22
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Constraints on low order models: the cost of simplicity.
Martin Hoecker-Martinez, Oregon State University
3:00 – 4:00 PM
A one-fluid MHD model with electron inertia.
Keiji Kimura, Kyoto University
Tuesday, August 23
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Traversing the edge: how turbulence decays.
Matthew Chantry, University of Bristol
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
A low dimensional model for shear turbulence in Plane Poiseuille flow: an example to understand the edge.
Giulio Mariotti, Boston University
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Upstream basin circulation of rotating, hydraulically controlled flows.
Adele Morrison, Australian National University
Wednesday, August 24
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Islands in locally forced basin circulations.
Samuel Potter, Princeton University
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Two-layer viscus fluid in an inclined closed tube: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
Zhan Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Chaotic interaction of vortex patches with boundaries.
Andrew Crosby, University of Cambridge
3:00 – 4:00 PM
On Brownian motion in a fluid with a plane boundary.
Chao Ma, University of Colorado, Boulder
Thursday, August 25
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Localized solutions in plane Couette flow: continuation methods.
John Platt, Harvard University
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Ascending the ridge: maximizing the heat flux in steady porous medium convection.
Lindsey Ritchie, University of Strathclyde