Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

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• Turbulent Mixing and Beyond
• International Conference

18- 26 August 2007 The Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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Objectives of the Conference

• to expose the generic problem of
• Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing in Unsteady
  Flows
• to a wide scientific community
• to promote the development of new ideas in
  tackling
• the fundamental aspects of the problem
• to assist in application of novel approaches in
  a
• broad range of phenomena,
• where the turbulent processes occur,
• to have a potential impact on technology.

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Building the Bridges

• The Conference provides the opportunity
• to bring together scientists from many different
  areas
• high energy density physics, plasmas
• fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion, material
  science
• geophysics, astrophysics
• optics and telecommunications
• applied mathematics, probability and statistics
• to have our attention focused on the
• long-standing formidable task and on a
• connection to reality.

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Unsteady Turbulent Processes

• plays a key role in a wide variety of phenomena
• ranging from astrophysical to micro-scales
• under high or low energy density conditions
• inertial confinement, heavy-ion and magnetic
  fusion
• light-matter interaction and non-equilibrium
  heat transfer
• properties of materials under high strain rates
• shocks, explosions, blast waves
• supernovae and accretion disks, early Universe
• stellar non-Boussinesq and magneto-convection
• planetary interiors and mantle-lithosphere
  tectonics
• premixed and non-premixed combustion
• oceanography, atmospheric flows
• unsteady boundary layers, hypersonic and
  supersonic flows
• cutting-edge technology
• laser micro-machining
• free-space optical telecommunications
• industrial applications in aeronautics and
  aerodynamics

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Generic problem

• Predictive modeling and reliable quantification
  of the turbulent processes
• in unsteady multiphase flows are highly
  formidable tasks.
• Their theoretical description is one of the most
  challenging problems in hydrodynamics, whose
  complexity
• expands the horizons of the modern theory of
  differential equations
• encourages the development of perturbative,
  integral and stochastic approaches for their
  solution
• enforces the large-scale computations
• calls for overall improvement of the numerical
  methods.
• On the experimental side, the unsteady turbulent
  processes
• are extremely hard to systematically study
• in a well-controlled laboratory environment.
• Their extreme sensitivity and transient character
  of the dynamics
• impose high requirements on the accuracy and
  spatio-temporal resolution
• of the measurements as well as data rate
  acquisition,
• recur as a primary concern the influence of an
  observer on
• the observation results and data interpretation.

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Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

• Conference features
• wide scope
• focus on hard problems
• high quality of presentations
• Conference is structured
• to encourage participants communications
• with experts from different fields
• to promote the exchange of ideas
• and suggestion of open problems
• to promote the discussions of rigorous
  mathematical issues,
• theoretical approaches and
• state-of-the-art numerical simulations
• along with advanced experimental techniques and
• technological applications.

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Conference Structure

• Our Program covers a broad variety of Themes and
  consists of
• invited lectures (40 minutes)
• contributed talks (30 minutes)
• tutorials (1 hour)
• posters
• round tables
• Tutorials novel experimental methods and
  computational approaches
• Round Tables informal discussions, open problems
• formulation of quantitative requirements for
• estimates of information capacity of data set,
  and for
• setting of criteria for standards
• which can be referenced in the future research.

Start Sat, 18 August 2007 Finish Sunday, 26
August 2007
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Who are we?

• Conference participants
• about 120 people, submitted 150 contributions,
  over 30 invited lectures
• Our Participants involve
• students and young researchers
• seasoned scientists
• members of leading scientific institutions
• members of National Academies of Science and
  Engineering,
• recipients of international awards (Dirac and
  Boltzmann medals)
• founders of scientific schools, leader of
  research institutions
• industry and high-tech
• Europe, USA, Russia and FSU, Australia, Canada,
  Japan, India,
• We are now International Conference.
• The key word respect.

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Committees
Organization Snezhana I. Abarzhi (chairperson,
USA) Malcolm J. Andrews (Los Alamos National
Laboratory, USA) Sergei I. Anisimov (Landau
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia) Serge
Gauthier (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique,
France) Donald Q. Lamb (The University of
Chicago, USA) Katsunobu Nishihara (Institute for
Laser Engineering, Osaka, Japan) Bruce A.
Remington (Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA) Robert Rosner (Argonne National
Laboratory, USA) Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
(International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Italy) Alexander L. Velikovich (Naval Research
Laboratory, USA)
Scientific Advisory Committee S.I. Abarzhi
(Chicago, USA) G. Ahlers (University of
California at Santa Barbara, USA) M.J. Andrews
(Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) S.I.
Anisimov (Landau Institute for Theoretical
Physics, Russia) E. Bodenschatz (Max Plank
Institute, Gottingen, Germany) S. Dalziel (DAMTP,
University of Cambridge, UK) R. Ecke (Los Alamos
National Laboratory, USA) H.J. Fernando (Arizona
State University, USA) S. Gauthier (Commissariat
à l'Energie Atomique, France) G.A. Glatzmaier
(University of California at Santa Cruz,
USA) W.A. Goddard III (California Institute of
Technology, USA) L.P. Kadanoff (The University of
Chicago, USA) D.P. Lathrop (University of
Maryland, USA) S. Lebedev (Imperial College,
UK) P. Manneville (Ecole Polytechnique,
France) D.I. Meiron (California Institute of
Technology, USA)
H. Nagib (Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, USA) J. Niemela (International Center
for Theoretical Physics, Italy) K. Nishihara
(Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka,
Japan) S.A. Orszag (Yale University, USA) E. Ott
(University of Maryland, USA) N. Peters (RWTS,
Aachen, Germany) S.B. Pope (Cornell, USA) B.A.
Remington (Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA) R. Rosner (Argonne National
Laboratory, USA) A. Schmidt (Naval Research
Laboratory, USA) K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP,
Italy) V. Steinberg (Weiznmann Institute,
Israel) A.L. Velikovich (Naval Research
Laboratory, USA) P.K. Yeung (Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA) F.A. Williams (University of
California at San Diego, USA)
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We gratefully acknowledge support of
National Science Foundation (NSF), USA Divisions
and Programs Directors Drs. A.G. Detwiler, L.M.
Jameson, E.L. Lomon, P.E. Phelan, G.A. Prentice,
J.A. Raper, W. Schultz, P.R. Westmoreland PI Dr.
S.I. Abarzhi Air Force Office of Scientific
Research (AFOSR), USA Program Director Dr. J.D.
Schmisseur PI Dr. S.I. Abarzhi European Office
of Aerospace Research and Development
(EOARD) Program Chief Dr. S. Surampudi PI Dr.
S.I. Abarzhi International Centre for
Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste,
Italy Centre's Director Dr. K.R.
Sreenivasan The University of Chicago and
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL),
USA Laboratory's Director Dr. R.
Rosner Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA),
France Directeur de Recherche Dr. S.
Gauthier Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),
USA Group Leader Dr. M. Andrews PI Dr. S.I.
Abarzhi The DOE ASC Alliance FLASH Center, The
University of Chicago Center's Director Dr. D.Q.
Lamb Institute for Laser Engineering (ILE),
Osaka, Japan Division Head Dr. K.
Nishihara Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT), Chicago, USA College of Engineering Drs.
H. Arastoopour (Dean)
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We gratefully acknowledge assistance of
ICTP, Trieste, Italy Suzie Radosic
(administrator) Nadia van Buuren
(assistant) Adrea Stefani (host) and Carlo Fonda
(SDU) Tiziana Botazzi and Dora Phtiou
(housing) Dilys Grilli and Guido Comar
(publishing) Adriano Maggi, Eric Jost and Mauro
Calligaris (visa office) Daniela Giombi
(host) Andrej Milchelcich (financial
office) Dag Johannessen (Directors
administrator) Pierre Agbediro and Fabricio Coana
(drivers) Chicago, USA Elena Magnus
(assistant) Daniil Ilyin (web-master) Black-Sea
Travel San Francisco, USA Katia and Diana
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Welcome to the TMBW-07
Our hope that the TMBW-07 will serve to advance
the state-of-the-art in understanding of
fundamental physical properties of turbulent
mixing and turbulence in unsteady flows and will
potentially have an impact on predictive modeling
capabilities, physical description and,
ultimately, control of the complex turbulent
processes.
Success of the TMBW consists from the successful
work of all of us. You are encouraged to
highlight the strongest parts of your
contributions.
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Dear Snezhana! I wish successes to you, to
member of Organizing Committee and to all
participants of "Turbulent Mixing and Beyond
Workshop" in work of this new conference! II
hope, that this conference will be a new impulse
for development of hydrodynamic instabilities
researches. Sincerely yours, Evgeny Meshkov