KITP Conference: Eddy - Mean-Flow Interactions in Fluids

KITP Conference: Eddy - Mean-Flow Interactions in Fluids
(Mar 24 - Jun 20, 2014)
Coordinators: Brad Marston, Steve Tobias
Scientific Advisors: Oliver Bühler, James Cho, Patrick Diamond, David Dritschel, Rick&nbs p;Salmon

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Monday, March 24, 2014
	Session: Fundamentals of Eddy Mean Flows, Chair: Richard Salmon (S.I.O.)
8:50am	Greg Huber (KITP Deputy Director)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Oliver Bühler (Courant)	Waves and Mean Flows[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Andrew Soward (Exeter)	Hybrid Euler-Lagrange Methods in Fluid Mechanics; glm versus GLM[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:40am	Am Break
11:10am	Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh)	Geometric GLM Applied to Oceanic Near-Inertial Waves[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:50am	Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann)	What drives the weather changes?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Plasma Dynamics, Chair: Paul Roberts (UCLA)
2:00pm	Özgür Gürcan (École Polytechnique)	Turbulence, Waves and Flows in Fusion Plasmas[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Pat Diamond (UCSD)	Elasticity in Turbulence, PV Mixing and Time Delay[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm	Pm Break
4:10pm	Francois Waelbroeck (UT Austin)	Theory and Simulations of Magnetic Island Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:50pm	Sacha Brun (CEA-Saclay)	Gravity Waves Nonlinear Excitation and Propagation in Solar-Like Stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	POSTER SESSION/ RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
	Session: Weak Turbulence and Applications, Chair: Greg Huber (KITP Deputy Director)
9:00am	Sergey Nazarenko (Warwick)	Theoretical and Experimental Challenges in Wave Turbulence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Natalia Vladimirova (New Mexico)	Inverse Cascade and Mean Flows in Wave Turbulence[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:40am	Am Break
11:10am	Stefan Le Dizes (Aix-Marseilles)	Zonal Flow Induced by Libration in a Spherical Shell[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:50am	Mark Fruman (Goethe)	Using WKB Theory in Phase Space for Simulating the Weakly Nonlinear Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Atmosphere/Ocean Dynamics, Chair: Beth Wingate (Exeter)
2:00pm	Bill Young (Scripps)	Long-Range Propagation of Ocean Swell[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown)	Surface Wave Effects on Oceanic Fronts, Filaments, and Turbulence[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm	Pm Break
4:10pm	Ton Van den Bremer (Oxford)	Local and Non-Local Mean Flows Induced by Small Amplitude Internal Gravity Wave Packets[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:50pm	Greg Chini (New Hampshire)	Asymptotically-Motivated Models of Langmuir Circulation Dynamics on Ocean Submesoscales[Slides]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
	Session: Astrophysics, Chair: Joanne Mason (Exeter)
9:00am	Gordon Ogilvie (Cambridge)	Wave-Mean Flow Interactions in Astrophysical Discs and Stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Stas Boldyrev (Wisconsin)	Hydrodynamic and Kinetic Turbulence in the Solar Wind[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:40am	Am Break
11:10am	Michael Proctor (Cambridge)	Mean Responses to Symmetry-Breaking Perturbations in Disordered Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:50am	Pascale Garaud (UCSC)	Wave-Mean-Flow Interactions in Oscillatory Double-Diffusive Convection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Geophysical Flows, Chair: Richard Scott (St Andrews)
2:00pm	Noboru Nakamura (Chicago)	Dispersion and Conservation Laws for Finite-Amplitude Rossby Waves in Slowly Varying Media[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:40pm	Geoff Vallis (Exeter)	Wave - Mean Flow Interaction in the General Circulation and Global Warming[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:20pm	Pm Break
3:50pm	Farid Ait-Chaalal (ETH-Zurich)	Quasi-Linear Wave-Mean Flow Interactions in Large-Scale Planetary Circulations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Michael Calkins (Colorado)	Quasi-Geostrophic Convection Models for Geophysical and Astrophysical Bodies[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:10pm	POSTER SESSION/ RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, March 27, 2014
	Session: Reduced Dynamics and Statistical Methods, Chair: Steve Tobias (Leeds)
9:00am	Michael McIntyre (Cambridge)	Jets: a Roller-Coaster Ride from Earth to Jupiter and Back[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	John Krommes (Princeton)	Symmetry Breaking, Zonostrophic Bifurcation, and Beyond[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:40am	Am Break
11:10am	Freddy Bouchet (ENS-Lyon)	Abrupt Transitions and Large Deviations in Geophysical Turbulent Flows[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:50am	Brad Marston (Brown)	Multiscale Approach to the Direct Statistical Simulation of Flows[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: From Experiments to Stars (via planets), Chair: Paul Williams (Univ. Reading)
2:00pm	Gary Glatzmaier (UCSC)	Simulations of the Gravity and Magnetic Fields to be Measured by Juno at Jupiter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:40pm	Peter Read (Oxford)	Energetics of Multiple Zonal Jet Formation in Rotating, Thermally-Driven Convection on a Topographic ?-plane[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:20pm	Pm Break
3:50pm	David Hughes (Leeds)	The Formation of Large-Scale Vortices in Rotating Convection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Antoine Strugarek (Montreal)	Gyrokinetic Simulations of Transport Barriers Associated With Sheared Flows in Tokamak Plasmas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	END OF CONFERENCE


POSTERS
Eric Brown		Universal models for large-scale coherent flow structures in turbulence[Poster]
Junyi Chai		The role of criticality on the horizontal and vertical scales of extratropical eddies in a dry GCM[Poster]
Laura Currie		Mean flow generation in rotating two-dimensional convection
Gavin Esler		Parametrization of Baroclinic Eddies in a Channel Model
Baylor Fox-Kemper		Assessing the Influence of Surface and Wind Waves to the Global Climate by Incorporating Wavewatch III in CESM
Anna Frishman		A single velocity snapshot reveals the future and the past of pairs of particles in turbulence
Samuel Hunter		Waves in shallow water magnetohydrodynamics[Poster]
Keiichi Ishioka		A Proof for the Equivalence of Two Upper Bounds for the Growth of Disturbances from Barotropic Instability[Poster]
Young-Dae Jung		Influence of dynamic screening on the electron-ion bremsstrahlung process in turbulent plasmas[Poster]
X. San Liang		Canonical transfer and mean-eddy interaction in incompressible fluid flows
Lucie Alvan Allan Sacha Brun Stephane Mathis		Detailed analysis of internal waves in stars[Poster]
Bettina Meyer		2nd order closure form cumulant expansion for boundary layer turbulence
Cesare Nardini		Stochastic averaging, jet formation and bistability in turbulent planetary atmospheres[Poster]
Jeff Parker		Connection between Zonostrophic Instability and Modulational Instability[Poster]
Wanming Qi		Direct Statistical Simulation of Flows by Expansions in Cumulants[Poster]
Mykhailo Rudko		On the lifecycles and transport properties of vortices on the beta-plane
Izumi Saito		Angular distribution of energy spectrum in two-dimensional beta-plane turbulence in the long-wave limit[Poster]
Jonathan Squire		Nonmodal growth of the magnetorotational instability[Poster]
Talia Tamarin		The role of eddy-mean flow interaction in shaping midlatitude storm tracks[Poster]
Brad Marston Steve Tobias		Direct Statistical Simulation of Astrophysical Flows[Poster]
Dr Paul Williams		Zonal jet formation in numerical simulations of a large rotating annulus experiment[Poster]
Jack Wood		Modelling Jupiter's variably conducting outer atmosphere
Jin-Han Xie		Topographic wave-mean flow interactions in an inertial layer
Yuki Yasuda		Physical Interpretation on the Spontaneous Radiation of Inertia-gravity Waves Using the Renormalization Group Method[Poster]
Vladimir Zhdankin		Energy Dissipation in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Coherent Structures or Nanoflares?

Monday, March 24, 2014

Session: Fundamentals of Eddy Mean Flows, Chair: Richard Salmon (S.I.O.)

Session: Plasma Dynamics, Chair: Paul Roberts (UCLA)

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Session: Weak Turbulence and Applications, Chair: Greg Huber (KITP Deputy Director)

Session: Atmosphere/Ocean Dynamics, Chair: Beth Wingate (Exeter)

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Session: Astrophysics, Chair: Joanne Mason (Exeter)

Session: Geophysical Flows, Chair: Richard Scott (St Andrews)

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Session: Reduced Dynamics and Statistical Methods, Chair: Steve Tobias (Leeds)

Session: From Experiments to Stars (via planets), Chair: Paul Williams (Univ. Reading)

POSTERS