Description

Turbulence is often referred to as the last open problem of classical mechanics. It is a problem of both fundamental importance, posing unique mathematical challenges, and with a wide range of applications, in earth and atmospheric science, plasma physics, aerospace engineering, and many other areas. Despite nearly a century of efforts by the best minds, many questions remain open, and considerable progress has only been achieved for some idealized situations, such as homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. The goal of the session is to bring together specialists from various areas of turbulence research.

Speakers/Presentations

• Eleftherios Gkioulekas, Dissipation range and anomalous sinks in steady two-dimensional turbulence.
• Dambaru Bhatta, On convective instability & transition to turbulence in a mushy layer.
• Annick Pouquet, Combining rotation and helicity in turbulent flows and the emergence of strong and persistent cyclonic columnar vortices.
• Lokenath Debnath, Fourier Transforms and Wavelet Transforms in Turbulence.
• Mogens Melander, The question of universal scaling coefficients for inertial range structure functions.
• Peter S. Constantin, Navier-Stokes equations driven by singular forces.
• Edriss S. Titi, On the Statistical Properties of the 3D Incompressible Navier-Stokes-Voigt Model.
• Ricardo M. S. Rosa, Navier-Stokes equations, turbulence and statistical solutions.
• John C. Bowman, Casimir Cascades in Two-Dimensional Turbulence.
• Michael Jolly, 2D Turbulence for Time-dependent Forces with Large Gaps in their Spectra.
• Nusret Balci, Vertical Averages of the RBE.
• Ciprian Foias, On the Statistics of the Global Attractor of the 2-D Navier-Stokes Equations