TODW01
23 July 2012 to 27 July 2012
In an ideal fluid, vortex lines are transported with the fluid and their topology is conserved for so long as the field remains smooth; in particular, the helicity of the flow, providing a measure of the degree of linkage of vortex lines, is conserved. A central unsolved problem concerns the question of whether the vorticity field does remain smooth for all time under Euler evolution, or whether (alternatively) singularities at finite time may develop. Three-dimensional vortex interactions lie at the heart of this problem. Weak (viscous) diffusion modifies the evolution, but does not necessarily suppress singularity formation. Viscosity allows vortex reconnexion and therefore change of topology; this process provides for the finite rate of dissipation of energy in turbulence even in the limit of vanishing viscosity.
An IUTAM Symposium (Topological Fluid Dynamics I) was held in Cambridge UK in 1989, when the subject was in its infancy.[Topological Fluid Dynamics, Ed. H.K.Moffatt & A.Tsinober, CUP, 1990].
The main topics covered then were:
These topics remain as relevant today as they were in 1989; we propose however to focus primarily on the following topics, which are of particular current interest:
It is with great sadness that the International Scientific Committee of the forthcoming workshop announces the death of fellow committee member and Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, Hassan Aref, who died unexpectedly on 10 September 2011 aged 60.
Monday 23rd July 2012 | |||
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09:45 to 10:30 | No Room Required | ||
10:30 to 11:00 |
Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:40 |
Charlie Doering University of Michigan |
Room 1 | |
11:45 to 12:05 |
Kai Schneider Aix Marseille Université |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Otto Chkhetiani Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Martin Oberlack Technische Universität Darmstadt |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:05 |
Michael Kurgansky Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
15:10 to 15:30 |
Asher Yahalom Ariel University Center of Samaria |
Room 1 | |
15:35 to 15:55 | No Room Required | ||
16:00 to 16:40 |
Phil Boyland University of Florida |
Room 1 | |
16:45 to 17:05 |
Satoshi Tanda Hokkaido University |
Room 1 | |
17:10 to 17:30 |
Koji Ohkitani University of Sheffield |
Room 1 | |
17:30 to 18:15 | No Room Required | ||
18:15 to 19:15 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 24th July 2012 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Daniel Peralta-Salas ICMAT |
Room 1 | |
09:45 to 10:05 |
Alberto Enciso Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
Room 1 | |
10:10 to 10:30 |
Francesca Maggioni Università degli studi di Bergamo |
Room 1 | |
10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
11:00 to 11:40 |
John Gibbon Imperial College London |
Room 1 | |
11:45 to 12:05 |
Carlo Barenghi Newcastle University |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
An accurate and efficient method to compute steady vortices without symmetry |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Eric Friedlander University of Southern California |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:05 |
Dissipation and enstrophy statistics in turbulence: are the simulations and mathematics converging? |
Room 1 | |
15:10 to 15:30 |
Dmitry Kolomenskiy Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS) |
Room 1 | |
15:35 to 15:55 | Room 1 | |
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15:55 to 16:05 |
Alexander Libin Tel Aviv University |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:40 | Discussion Room | ||
16:45 to 17:30 |
Morten Brøns Technical University of Denmark |
Room 1 | |
18:15 to 19:15 | No Room Required |
Wednesday 25th July 2012 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Boris Khesin University of Toronto |
Room 1 | |
09:45 to 10:05 |
Xin Liu University of Sydney |
Room 1 | |
10:10 to 10:30 |
Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu Chuo University |
Room 1 | |
10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
11:00 to 11:40 |
Edriss Titi University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science |
Room 1 | |
11:45 to 12:05 | Room 1 | |
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12:10 to 12:30 |
A Soap-Film Mobius Strip Changes Topology with a Twist Singularity |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 19:00 | No Room Required | ||
19:30 to 22:00 | No Room Required |
Thursday 26th July 2012 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Jean-Luc Thiffeault University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Room 1 | |
09:45 to 10:05 |
Gunnar Hornig University of Dundee |
Room 1 | |
10:10 to 10:30 |
Oscar Velasco Fuentes CICESE - Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada |
Room 1 | |
10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
11:00 to 11:40 |
Mark Stremler Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Room 1 | |
11:45 to 12:05 |
Yoshi Kimura Nagoya University |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Witold Sadowski Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Shigeo Kida Kyoto University |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:05 |
Yossi Elimelech Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
15:10 to 15:30 |
Henryk Kudela Wroclaw University of Technology |
Room 1 | |
15:35 to 15:55 |
Tomasz Lipniacki Polish Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
15:55 to 16:05 |
Stefanella Boatto Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:40 | Discussion Room | ||
16:45 to 17:30 |
Diego Córdoba ICMAT |
Room 1 | |
18:15 to 19:15 | No Room Required |
Friday 27th July 2012 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Eckart Meiburg University of California, Santa Barbara |
Room 1 | |
09:45 to 10:05 |
Yuji Hattori Tohoku University |
Room 1 | |
10:10 to 10:30 |
Makoto Hirota Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin |
Room 1 | |
10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
11:00 to 11:40 |
Zensho Yoshida University of Tokyo |
Room 1 | |
11:45 to 12:05 |
Yasuhide Fukumoto Kyushu University |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Romain Nguyen-van-yen Freie Universität Berlin |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Stephen Childress Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:05 |
Sahand Hormoz University of California |
Room 1 | |
15:10 to 15:30 |
Bartosz Protas McMaster University |
Room 1 | |
15:35 to 15:55 | Room 1 | ||
18:15 to 19:15 | No Room Required |
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