Multiphase Turbulent Flows in the Atmosphere and Ocean Agenda

Multiphase Turbulent Flows in the Atmosphere and Ocean

 August 13 - 17, 2012

Foothills Laboratory 2 Main Seminar Room

AGENDA and PRESENTATIONS

MONDAY August 13
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival and Registration
 

OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL MULTIPHASE FLOWS

09:00 - 10:00 Environmental Multiphase Flow – A New frontier

(An introductory overview talk + discussions), Lian-Ping Wang, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
10:00 - 10:30 Observational and Numerical Studies on Turbulent Entrainment-Mixing Processes, Chunsong Lu, Brookhaven National Laboratory. presentation (pdf)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
 

TURBIDITY CURRENT AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT

11:00 - 12:00 Interplay between Turbulence and Particles in Environmental Flows with Primary Focus on Turbidity Currents, S. Balachandar, University of Florida, Gainsville
12:00 - 12:30 3D Turbulence Resolving Simulation on Convective Sedimentation and Resuspension of Fine Sediment in the Coastal Environment, Xiao Yu, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break (on your own; cafeteria on site)
 

AIR-SEA INTERACTION I

13:30 - 14:30

An Overview of Sea Spray Aerosol Production, Scaling, and Surface-layer Interactions, Chris W. Fairall, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory. presentation (pdf)

14:30 - 15:30 The Role of Water Droplets in Air-sea Interaction: Rain and Sea Spray, Fabrice Veron, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
 

CLOUD, PRECIPITATION AND CLIMATE

16:00 - 17:00 Overview of Clouds and Climate, Wojciech Grabowski, NCAR. presentation (pdf)
17:00 - 17:30 Understanding a Test-tube Model for Rainfall, Michael Wilkinson, The Open University, UK. presentation (pdf)
17:30 - 19:00 Ice-breaker reception (Cafeteria Atrium)
TUESDAY August 14
 

CLOUDS: ENTRAINMENT AND MIXING

09:00 - 10:00 Mixing and Entrainment in Clouds, R.A. Shaw, Michigan Technological University, Houghton. presentation (pdf)
10:00 - 10:30 Rotational Dynamics of Anisotropic Particles in Turbulence, Greg Voth, Wesleyan University. presentation (pdf)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
 

PHYSICS AND DYNAMICS OF INERTIAL PARTICLES I

11:00 - 12:00 The Behavior of Small Inertial Particles in Homogeneous and Isotropic Turbulence, Alessandra Lanotte, CNR ISAC, Lecce, Italy. presentation (pdf)
12:00 - 12:30 Experimental Investigation of the Local Entrainment Velocity in a Gravity Current, Dominik Krug, ETH, Zurich. presentation (pdf)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break, (cafeteria on site)
 

PHYSICS AND DYNAMICS OF INERTIAL PARTICLES II

13:30 - 14:30 Particles in Turbulence, Federico Toschi, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. presentation (pdf)
14:30 - 15:30 Map-Based Advection, Low-Dimensional Simulation, and Superparameterization: Tools for Cost-Effective Multiphase Geophysical Flow Simulation , Alan Kerstein, Consultant. presentation (pdf)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
 

PHYSICS AND DYNAMICS OF INERTIAL PARTICLES III

16:00 - 17:00 Dispersed Multiphase Flows: From Stokes Suspensions to Turbulence, Kyongmin Yeo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. presentation (pdf)
17:00 - 17:30 Panel Discussion
WEDNESDAY August 15
 

CLOUD DYNAMICS

09:00 - 10:00 A Novel Approach for Simulating Droplet Microphysics in Entraining Clouds, Steven Krueger, University of Utah. presentation (pdf)
10:00 - 10:30 The Inverse Droplet Coagulation Problem, Colm Connaughton, University of Warwick. presentation (pdf)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
 

INERTIAL PARTICLE DYNAMICS FROM OBSERVATIONS

11:00 - 12:00 Results from Cloud Physics Experiments, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen
12:00 - 12:30 Experimental Investigation of Small Inertial Droplets in Turbulence, Alberto Aliseda, University of Washington
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break, (cafeteria on site)
 

AIR-SEA INTERACTION II

13:30 - 14:30 Modeling the Bubbly Ocean, Jun-Hong Liang, UCLA. presentation (pdf)
14:30 - 15:30 Sea Spray and its Effects on Near-surface Turbulence, David Richter, NCAR
15:40 Bus departs to Mesa Laboratory with brief stop at hotel to drop off passengers.
16:30 Arrival at Mesa Laboratory and guided tour of the facility
17:00 Short hike
17:30 Cheese and wine (Mesa Laboratory - Cafeteria)
18:45 Bus departs from ML back to hotel
THURSDAY August 16
 

MULTISCALE COMPUTING OF CLOUD PHYSICS

09:00 - 09:10 Introduction (Grabowski - Wang)
09:10 - 09:55 Effect of Turbulent Enhancement of Collision-coalescence on Warm Rain Formation in Maritime Shallow Convection, Andrzej A. Wyszogrodzki, NCAR. presentation (pdf)
09:55 - 10:30 Summarization and Exploration as Paradigms for Visualizing Large DNS Results, Chandra Kambhamettu, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Toward Faster and More Accurate Computation of Hydrodynamic Droplet-droplet Interactions, Louis Rossi, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
12:00 - 12:30 Analysis of Droplet Motion, Claudio E. Torres, George Mason University. presentation (pdf)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break, (cafeteria on site)
13:30 - 14:15 Overview of HPC Computer Architecture: A Long March Toward Exa-scale Computing and Beyond, Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
14:15 - 15:00 Hybrid FFTs on Heterogeneous CPU/GPU Computers, Xiaoming Li, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
15:00 - 15:30 Rendering Salient Regions and Interaction Maps Using GPU, Rohith MV, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Parallel Implementation and Scalability Analysis of Turbulent Particle Laden Flow Modeling with Particle Hydrodynamic Interactions Using 2D Domain Decomposition , Orlando Ayala, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
16:45 - 17:30 Effect of Gravity on Acceleration Statistics of Inertial Particles in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence: A Numerical Investigation , Hossein Parishani, University of Delaware. presentation (pdf)
FRIDAY August 17
 

LAB EXPERIMENT AND SIMULATION

09:00 - 10:00 Mixing and Entrainment at Stratocumulus Top, Szymon Malinowski, University of Warsaw. presentation (pdf)
10:00 - 10:30 High-resolution Simulation Results of Kinematic and Dynamic Collision Statistics of Cloud Droplets, Bogdan Rosa, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw. presentation (pdf)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
 

PHYSICS AND DYNAMICS OF INERTIAL PARTICLES IV

11:00 - 12:00 Finding the Favorite Regions for Droplets to Collide in a Turbulent Flow: Lab Data and DNS, Harmen Jonker, Delf Technical University. presentation (pdf)
12:00 - 12:30 Relative Velocities of Inertial Particles in Turbulent Aerosols, Bernhard Mehlig, University of Gotenbug, Sweden. presentation (pdf)
12:30 WORKSHOP ADJOURNS