Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

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

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.”

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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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 (Director’s 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

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.

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