Conference in Les Houches (France), 20-25 January 2019
Organizers: Thierry Dauxois (CNRS & ENS de Lyon) and Thomas Peacock (MIT)

Environmental Fluid Dynamics: Confronting Grand Challenges

© Vincent Moncorgé



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Stratified flow
  • Basics: Greg Ivey (Perth, Australia) Length scales, mechanisms and mixing in density stratified flows
  • Applications: Matthew Alford (La Jolla, USA) Ocean turbulence: Importance, techniques and case studies
  • Perspectives: Colm-cille Caulfield (Cambridge, UK) Open questions in turbulent stratified mixing: do we even know what we don't know?
    • Multiphase flow
  • Basics: Jim McElwaine (Durham, UK) Particle-laden flows and how to avoid them
  • Applications: Nathalie Vriend (Cambridge, UK) Novel approaches and applications for granular and particle-laden flow
  • Perspectives: Eckhart Meiburg (Santa Barbara, USA) Future research perspectives in particle-laden flows
    • Ocean transport
  • Basics: George Haller (Zurich, Switzerland) Nonlinear Dynamics of Lagrangian Transport
  • Applications: Tamay Ozgokmen (Miami, USA) Do Submesoscales Exist in The Ocean and What Do They Do?
  • Perspectives: Nadia Pinardi (Bologna, Italy) Perspectives in ocean pollution modeling
    • Atmospheric and urban transport
  • Basics: Maarten van Reeuwijk (London, UK) Wicked problems in urban fluid mechanics
  • Applications: Catherine Gorle (Palo Alto, USA) Predictive Simulations of Urban Flow and Dispersion
  • Perspectives: Paul Linden (Cambridge, UK) The physics of natural ventilation of buildings and the connections to the urban flows
    • Predictability
  • Perspectives : Peter Bauer (Reading, UK) The future of numerical weather prediction will be determined by computing
    • Concluding Talk
  • Edwin A. Cowen (Ithaca USA) Remote Sensing of Surface Flows, from order Kolmogorov to Continental scales, as a tool for Hydraulic, Hydrologic, and Ecosystem Science, Engineering and Management
  • Andrew Woods (Cambridge, UK) Some Fundamental Models of Environmental Flows and their Application

    • The programme has been completed with 25 contributed talks and a poster session ( see abstracts' list.)