COLLOQUIUM 590
Turbulent/nonturbulent interfaces: from laboratory to geophysical scales

3 July — 5 July 2017, London, UK

Scientific Programme

Monday July 3

1330-1350

Registration

1350-1400

Welcome

Session 1. Chair: Maarten van Reeuwijk

1400-1500

Marc Avila, Laminar-turbulent Interfaces in pipe flow

1500-1520

Javier Jimenez, The turbulent/nonturbulent interface in boundary layers up to R q = 6600

1520-1540

Atsushi Sekimoto, Properties of the turbulent/nonturbulent interface in a self-similar adverse-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer and a turbulent round jet

1540-1600

Oliver Buxton, Dynamics of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface of artificially generated high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers

1600-1630

Coffee break

Session 2. Chair: Javier Jimenez

1630-1650

Henry Burridge, Conditional sampling of a high Péclet number turbulent plume and the implications for entrainment and questions for the mixing

1650-1710

Pietro Salizzoni, Turbulent entrainment in non-boussinesq buoyant jets

1710-1730

Iresha Atthanayake, Pulsation of an axisymmetric jet in the presence of background rotation

1730-1800

Discussion (convener: Javier Jimenez)

1800-1930

Drinks and lab tour

Tuesday July 4

Session 3. Chair: Carlos Da Silva

0900-1000

Takashi Ishihara, Internal interfaces in turbulence

1000-1020

Gerrit Elsinga, Reynolds number dependence of turbulent motions

1020-1040

Alberto Vela-Martin, The large scale  geometry of vortex clusters in isotropic turbulence

1040-1100

Tomoaki Watanabe, Kinetic energy distribution in the space of scales near turbulent/non-turbulent interfaces

1100-1130

Coffee break

Session 4. Chair: Juan Pedro Mellado

1130-1150

Lilly Verso, A steady state experiment of a two-layer stratified flow with an oscillating grid.

1150-1210

Luis Cifuentes, Numerical investigation of the enstrophy and scalar interfaces in a turbulent premixed bluff body

1210-1230

Marius Neamtu, Lagrangian coherent structures near the turbulent/nonturbulent interface of a gravity current

1230-1400

Lunch

Session 5. Chair: Julian Hunt

1400-1420

Carlos Silva, The scaling of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface and of its (sub)layers at high Reynolds numbers

1420-1440

Markus Holzner, Effect of buoyancy on small scale aspects of turbulent entrainment

1440-1500

Dominik Krug, Stratification effects on the multiscale geometry of the turbulence interface in gravity currents

1500-1520

Melika Gul, Internal shear layers in turbulent pipe flow

1520-1550

Coffee break

Chair: Julian Hunt

1550-1610

Maarten van Reeuwijk, Entrainment decomposition for turbulent wall-bounded flows

1610-1630

Antonio Attili, The turbulent/nonturbulent interface in turbulent mixing layers

1630-1700

Discussion  (convener: Julian Hunt)

1900-

Dinner

Wednesday July 5

Session 6. Chair: Markus Holzner

0900-1000

Andrew Woods, Entrainment and mixing in geophysical flows .

1000-1020

Benjamin Devenish, Modelling of volcanic eruption columns

1020-1040

Juan Pedro Mellado, Turbulent/non-turbulent interface at the top of stratocumulus clouds

1040-1110

Coffee break

Session 7. Chair: Markus Holzner

1110-1130

Julian Hunt, Mechanisms and statistical models of external and internal interfacial turbulent shear layers

1130-1150

Sylvain Laizet, Implicit large-eddy simulations of gravity currents

1150-1220

Discussion (convener: Andy Woods)

1220-1230

Closing remarks