Directeur de Recherche au CNRSLaboratoire de Physiqueà l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
Laboratoire de Physique
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 46 allee d'Italie 69007 Lyon France Tel: (+33) 4 72 72 80 15 Fax: (+33) 4 72 72 89 50 Thierry.Dauxois@ens-lyon.fr Thierry.Dauxois@cnrs.fr |
Physics of Long-Range Interacting Systems, A. Campa, T. Dauxois, D Fanelli, S. Ruffo Oxford University Press (2014). Errata |
Physics of Solitons, T. Dauxois, M. Peyrard. Cambridge University Press (2006). Errata |
Conference
Waves, Instabilities and Mixing in Rotating and Stratified Flows
from 4 to 8 April 2022, at ICTS Bangalore, India.
Waves are ubiquitous in natural fluid systems like the Earth's ocean, planetary atmosphere, and the interior of stars and planets. Stratification and/or Coriolis effects represent key physical ingredients of wave generation, propagation and dissipation in many of these large-scale systems. Together with the significant amounts of energy input into them, the ability of waves to transport energy and momentum through large spatial extents has significant implications for (i) global flow features like oceanic or atmospheric circulation, mean temperature distribution in planets/stars etc., (ii) the overall energy budget, and (iii) biological activity in the ocean. Furthermore, it is now widely recognized that wave dissipation mechanisms have to be accurately parameterized in global scale numerical models like the Earth's climate model. Finally, an understanding of various small and large-scale wave phenomena in idealized models of complex large-scale systems like the ocean paves way for improved observation, understanding and prediction of the evolving global climate.
The proposed program would cover topics pertaining to the generation, propagation and dissipation of waves in stratified and rotating fluids, with applications focused on (but not restricted to) the Earth's oceans. Related applications to the Earth's atmosphere, and other planetary/astrophysical systems will also be encouraged to foster exchange of ideas.
This meeting would bring together physicists, mathematicians, fluid dynamicists, and oceanographers with three main objectives: (i) to deliver pedagogical lectures on the aforementioned topics, (ii) to identify important problems that the overall community could focus on in the next decade, (iii) to exchange ideas and tools between the various research communities.
A collective perspective article just appeared in the 1 February 2021
issue of Physical Review Fluids. This article summarizes the discussions
and outcomes of the 2019 Les Houches' conference, with the intent of providing a resource
for the community going forward.
It is available on the
Physical Review Fluids site or
here.
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