2002 Lecture Series Schedule

Bounds on Turbulent Transport

June 17 - August 23, 2002

Monday, June 17

10:00 AM Fritz Busse, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability Theory

Tuesday, June 18
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Applications of Energy Methods and Linear Theory

3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Seminar
Location - Clark 507

Wednesday, June 19

10:00 AM Fritz Busse
The Sequence-of-Bifurcations Approach for the Transition to Turbulence

2:30 PM Louis Howard, Florida State University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Simple Approaches to Some Bounding Problems

Thursday, June 20
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Upper Bounds for Turbulent Transports

2:00 PM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Bounds on Turbulent Transport: Introduction to the Background Method

Friday, June 21
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Multi-alpha-Solutions

2:00 PM Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
Bounds for Rotating Fluids

Monday, June 24

10:00 AM Colm Caulfield, University of California, San Diego
Bounds on Mixing in Stratified Shear Flows

2:00 PM Richard Kerswell, University of Bristol, U.K.
Unification of Variational Approaches

Tuesday, June 25

10:00 AM Karl Helfrich, Woods Hole OCeanographic Institution
Rotating Hydraulics and Upstream Basin Circulation

3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Seminar
Location - Clark 507

Wednesday, June 26

10:00 AM Vitalii A. Sheremet, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tilted Rotating Convection: Laboratory Experiments
on a Centrifuge

2:00 PM Willem V.R. Malkus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Observed Turbulence Averages from Upper Bounds Constrained by Nonlinear and Time Dependent Stability Conditions

Thursday, June 27
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE

2:00 PM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Variational Bounds on Energy Dissipation in Body-Forced Flows

Friday, June 28
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Patterns and Phase Turbulence of Centrifugally Driven Convection

Monday, July 1
10:00 AM Daniel Joseph, University of Minnesota
Slip Velocity and Lift

Tuesday, July 2

10:00 AM Pascale Garaud, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Stellar and Solar Rotation

3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Seminar
Location - Clark 507

Wednesday, July 3

10:00 AM Thomas Mullin, University of Manchester, U.K.
Experiments on Gluing Bifurcations

Thursday, July 4
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE - DUE TO INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY

Friday, July 5
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE

2:00 PM Daniel Joseph, University of Minnesota
Viscous Potential Flows and Interfacial Stability Problems

Monday, July 8 - Friday, July 12

Mini Symposium - Rotating

Monday, July 8
10:00 AM Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University
The Role of Moist Convection in the Hadley Circulation and in the Development of Hurricanes

2:00 PM Sonya Legg, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Plumes in Rotating Turbulent Convection

Tuesday, July 9
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Convection in the Rotating Cylindrical Annulus

1:00 PM Paul Matthews, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Instabilities of Rolls in Rotating Convection

Wednesday, July 10
10:00 AM Emmanuel Dormy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, FRANCE and Andrew M. Soward, University of Exeter, U.K.
The Onset of Thermal Convection in Rotating Spherical Shells

1:00 PM Robert Ecke, Los Alamos National Lab
Rotating Convection Experiments: A Tour through Parameter Space

3:00 PM Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Sharp Frontal Interfaces in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean

Thursday, July 11
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Convection in Rotating Spherical Shells and the Dynamo Problem

2:00 PM Yuan-Nan Young, Northwestern University
Non-Boussinesq Rotating Convection at Low Prandtl Numbers: Secondary Instability and Penta-Hepta Defect Chaos

Friday, July 12
10:00 AM Michael Proctor, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Pulsating Convection Cells at Large Taylor Number in Non-Boussinesq Convection

2:00 PM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Columbia University
The Curvature of Material Lines in Chaotic and Turbulent Flows

Monday, July 15
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE

Tuesday, July 16

10:00 AM
NO LECTURE

Wednesday, July 17

10:00 AM Francesco Paparella, University of Lecce, ITALY
Horizontal Convection and the Anti-Turbulence Theorem

Thursday, July 18
10:00 AM Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Laboratory Observations of Multiple Equliibrium, Oscillations, and Dynamic Stabilization of an Unstable Point

Friday, July 19
10:00 AM Takamitsu Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Entropy Production Extremal States for Atmosphere/Climate System

Monday, July 22
10:00 AM Stephen Childress, New York University
Flapping Flight as a Bifurcation

Tuesday, July 23
10:00 AM Melvin Stern, Florida State University
Doubly Diffusive Intrusions in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

Wednesday, July 24
10:00 AM Baylor Fox-Kemper, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Eddies and Friction: Removal of Vorticity in the Wind-Driven Gyre

Thursday, July 25
10:00 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
The Fission Theory of Binary Star Formation

Friday, July 26
10:00 AM Chris Hallstrom, Brown University
Bounds for Rotating Infinte Prandtl Number Convection

Monday, July 29
10:00 AM Allen C Kuo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Residual Analysis and Eddy Flux Parameterization in a Circumpolar Current

Tuesday, July 30
10:00 AM Glenn Ierley, University of California, San Diego
Bound to Improve

Wednesday, July 31
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE

Thursday, August 1
10:00 AM Gösta Walin, University of Goteborg
Baroclinic Currents Losing Buoyancy or; What is Going on in the Northern North Atlantic

Friday, August 2
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE

Monday, August 5
10:00 AM Jesse Otero, University of Michigan
TBA

Tuesday, August 6
10:00 AM Nick P. Fofonoff, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Conversion of Gravitational Potential Energy for Mixing

Wednesday, August 7
10:00 AM Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
Bounds for Slow Flow

2:00 PM Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jovian Jets

Thursday, August 8
10:00 AM Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University
Derivation of Pattern Equations

Friday, August 9
10:00 AM Yuri Lvov, Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute
Hamiltonian Formalism and the Garrett-Munk Spectrum of Internal Waves in the Ocean

Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16

NO LECTURES

Monday, August 19
10:00 AM Jennifer Siggers, University of Cambridge, UK
Bounds for Horizontal Convection

11:00 PM Radostin Simitev, University of Bayreuth, GERMANY
Inertia Wave Convection in Rotating Spherical Fluid Shells

2:00 PM Lu Lu, University of Michigan
Upper Bounds for Convection in an Internally Heated Fluid Layer

Tuesday, August 20
10:00 AM Ulrike Riemenschneider, University of Southampton, UK
Ball Release Experiment in a Centrifuge

11:00 PM Huiqun Wang, California Institute of Technology
Rearrangement of Annular Rings of High Vorticity

Wednesday, August 21
10:00 AM Francois Petrelis, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, FRANCE
Bounds in MHD Tubulence I Tearing Models

11:00 PM Alexandros Alexakis, University of Chicago
Bounds in MHD Tubulence II Magnetic Couette Flow and Hartmann Flow

2:00 PM Tomoki Tozuka, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
On the Cyclic and Oscillatory Covections in a Simplified Box Model With Entrainment

Thursday, August 22
10:00 AM Evstati Evstatiev, The University of Texas, Austin
Boundary Layer Theory for the Fixed Heat Flux Problem

11:00 PM Stephen Plasting, University of Bristol, UK
Infinite Prandtl Number Convection: Bound to Disprove

Friday, August 23
Fellows' Reports Due