Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

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27 July - 07 August 2009 The Abdus Salam
International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Trieste, Italy

• Turbulent Mixing and Beyond
• Second International Conference and Advanced
  School

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Goals of the International Conference Turbulent
Mixing and Beyond

• to expose the generic problem of
• Non-equilibrium Turbulent Processes
• to a wide scientific community
• to promote the development of new ideas in
  tackling
• the fundamental aspects of the problem
• to assist in application of novel approaches in
  a
• broad range of phenomena,
• where the turbulent processes occur,
• to have a potential impact on technology.

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Building the Bridges

• The Conference provides the opportunity
• to bring together scientists from many different
  areas
• high energy density physics, plasmas
• fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion, material
  science
• geophysics, astrophysics, physics of atmosphere
• optics and telecommunications
• applied mathematics, probability, statistics
• data processing and computations
• to focus our attention on the
• long-standing formidable task and on a
• connection to reality.

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Non-equilibrium Turbulent Processes

• play a key role in a wide variety of phenomena
• ranging from astrophysical to atomistic scales
• under high or low energy density conditions
• inertial confinement, heavy-ion and magnetic
  fusion
• light-matter interaction and non-equilibrium
  heat transfer
• material transformation under high strain rates
• shocks, explosions, blast waves
• supernovae and accretion disks, early Universe
  formation
• stellar non-Boussinesq and magneto-convection
• planetary interiors and mantle-lithosphere
  tectonics
• premixed and non-premixed combustion
• oceanography, atmospheric flows, Earth science
• non-canonical wall-bounded flows, including
  hypersonic and supersonic
• cutting-edge technology
• laser micro-machining, nano-electronics
• free-space optical telecommunications
• industrial applications in aeronautics and
  aerodynamics

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Generic problem

• Predictive modeling and reliable quantification
  of non-equilibrium turbulent processes are highly
  formidable tasks.
• Their theoretical description is one of the most
  challenging problems in hydrodynamics, whose
  complexity
• expands the horizons of the modern theory of
  partial differential equations
• encourages the development of perturbative,
  integral and stochastic approaches for their
  solution
• call for new connections to the dynamics at
  atomistic and meso-scales
• suggests new methods for predictive numerical
  modeling,
• up to peta-scale level, for error estimate and
  uncertainty quantification as well as novel data
  assimilation techniques
• On the experimental side, non-equilibrium
  processes
• are extremely hard to systematically study
• in a well-controlled laboratory environment.
• Their extreme sensitivity and transient character
  of the dynamics
• impose high requirements on the accuracy and
  spatio-temporal resolution
• of the measurements as well as data rate
  acquisition,
• recur as a primary concern the influence of an
  observer on
• the observation results and data interpretation.

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Turbulent Mixing and Beyond

• Conference features
• wide scope
• focus on hard problems
• high quality of presentations
• Conference is structured
• to encourage participants communications
• with experts from different fields
• to promote the exchange of ideas
• and suggestion of open problems
• to promote the discussions of rigorous
  mathematical issues,
• theoretical approaches and
• state-of-the-art numerical simulations
• along with advanced experimental techniques and
• technological applications.

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Objectives of TMB-2009

• Encourage the integration of
• theory, experiments, simulations and
  technologies
• for exploration of physical mechanisms of
  non-equilibrium turbulent
• processes, from atomistic to macro-scales, in
  both high and low energy density regimes
• Foster the application of innovative approaches
  for tackling the
• fundamental aspects of the problem, and
• understand and extend the range of applicability
  of traditional
• statistically steady considerations.
• Stimulate the application of advanced
  statistical and stochastic techniques and data
  analysis methodologies
• for unified characterization of the experimental
  and numerical data sets and for the estimation
  of their fidelity and information capacity.
• Further develop the TMB Community and enable it
  with the means of
• information exchange via a Collaborative
  Computing Environment, by
• providing access to the state-of-the-art advanced
  computational methodologies for data annotation,
  visualization, storage, transfer and analysis.

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Conference and School Structure

• Our Program covers a broad variety of Themes and
  consists of
• tutorials (45 50 minutes)
• invited lectures (35 minutes)
• contributed talks (25 minutes)
• posters
• round tables
• Tutorials for professional and graduate
  education
• theory of non-equilibrium processes in fluids and
  plasmas
• mathematical aspects of multi-scale dynamics
• experiments and experimental diagnostics in
  fluids and plasmas
• numerical methods verification, validation,
  uncertainty quantification
• methodologies on data assimilation, processing
  and analysis
• cyber-infrastructure and cyber-physical systems,
  high-performance systems
• Round Tables informal discussions (action items)
• connection to well-established fields and
  problems
• identification of a model problem, with a wide
  range of applications
• elaboration of quantitative criteria for

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Who are we?

• Conference participants
• over 160 people, submitted 200 contributions of
  400 authors, over 60 invited lectures and
  tutorials
• Our Participants involve
• students and young researchers
• seasoned scientists
• members of leading scientific institutions
• members of National Academies of Science and
  Engineering,
• founders of scientific schools, leader of
  research institutions
• industry and high-tech
• Europe, USA, Russia and FSU, Australia, Canada,
  Japan, India,
• The key word respect.

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Committees
Organization Snezhana I. Abarzhi (chairperson,
USA) Malcolm J. Andrews (Los Alamos National
Laboratory, USA) Sergei I. Anisimov (Landau Inst
Theoretical Physics, Russia) Hiroshi Azechi
(Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka,
Japan) Christopher J. Keane (Lawrence Livermore
Natl Laboratory, USA) Serge Gauthier
(Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique,
France) Joseph J. Niemela (local organizer, Int
Centre Theor Physics, Italy) Robert Rosner
(Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Katepalli R.
Sreenivasan (Int Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Italy) Alexander L. Velikovich (Naval Research
Laboratory, USA)
W.A. Goddard III (California Institute of
Technology, USA) J. Jimenez (Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)L.P. Kadanoff (The
University of Chicago, USA) D.Q. Lamb (The
University of Chicago, USA)D.P. Lathrop
(University of Maryland, USA) S. Lebedev
(Imperial College, UK)P. Manneville (Ecole
Polytechnique, France) D.I. Meiron (California
Institute of Technology, USA) P. Moin (Stanford
University, USA)A. Nepomnyashchy (Technion,
Israel)J.J. Niemela (International Center for
Theoretical Physics, Italy)K. Nishihara
(Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka, Japan)
S.S. Orlov (Stanford University, USA)S.A.
Orszag (Yale University, USA) E. Ott (University
of Maryland, USA)N. Peters (RWTS, Aachen,
Germany) S.B. Pope (Cornell, USA) A. Pouquet
(University Corp Atmospheric Research, USA)B.A.
Remington (Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA) R. Rosner (Argonne National
Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA) A.J.
Schmitt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) C.-W.
Shu (Brown University, USA)K.R. Sreenivasan (Int
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy)E. Tadmor
(University of Maryland, USA) Y.C. F. Thio (U.S.
Department of Energy)A.L. Velikovich (Naval
Research Laboratory, USA) V. Yakhot (Boston
University, USA)P.K. Yeung (Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA) F.A. Williams (University of
California at San Diego, USA) E. Zweibel
(University of Wisconsin, USA)
Scientific Advisory Committee S.I. Abarzhi
(University of Chicago, USA) Y. Aglitskiy
(Science Applications International Corporation,
USA) H. Azechi (Institute for Laser Engineering,
Osaka, Japan)M.J. Andrews (Los Alamos National
Laboratory, USA) S.I. Anisimov (Landau Institute
for Theoretical Physics, Russia) E. Bodenschatz
(Max Plank Institute, Germany) F. Cattaneo
(University of Chicago, USA) P. Cvitanovich
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) S. Cowley
(Imperial College, UK)S. Dalziel (DAMTP,
Cambridge, UK) W.S. Don (Brown University,
USA)R. Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory,
USA)H.J. Fernando (Arizona State University,
USA) I. Foster (University of Chicago, USA)S.
Gauthier (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique,
France) G.A. Glatzmaier (University of
California at Santa Cruz, USA) J. Glimm (State
University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
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We gratefully acknowledge support of
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP), ItalyNational Science Foundation (NSF),
USA Programs Plasma Physics Astronomy and
Astrophysics Computational Mathematics
Applied Mathematics Fluid Dynamics
Combustion, Fire and Plasma Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems Computer and Network
SystemsAir Force Office of Scientific Research
(AFOSR), USA Programs Hypersonics and
Turbulence Flow Control and AeroelasticityEurope
an Office of Aerospace Research and Development
(EOARD) of FOSR, UK Programs Aeronautical
SciencesDepartment of Energy (DOE), USA DOE
Office of ScienceUS Department of Energy
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),
USA Programs National Ignition Facility Fusion
EnergyUS Department of Energy Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL), USAUS Department of
Energy Argonne National Laboratory (ANL),
USACommissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA),
FranceInstitute for Laser Engineering
(ILE), JapanThe University of Chicago, USAASC
Alliance Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear
Flashes, USAIllinoins Institute of
Technology, USA College of Science and
LettersPhotron (Europe) Ltd., UK
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We gratefully acknowledge assistance of
ICTP, Trieste, Italy Administration Dag
Johannessen (Directors administrator), Suzie
Radosic (secretary) Publication Office Dilys
Grilli and Guido Comar (publishing) Housing
Office Tiziana Botazzi and Dora Phtiou Finance
Office Andrej Milchelcich SDU team Carlo Fonda,
Marco Zennaro, Canessa Enrique Visa Office
Adriano Maggi, Eric Jost and Mauro
Calligaris ICTP drivers Pierre Agbediro and
Fabricio Coana Chicago, USA Web Daniil Ilyin
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Welcome to the TMB-2009
TMB-2009 is organized to advance the
state-of-the-art in understanding of
fundamental physical properties of
non-equilibrium turbulent processes have a
conspicuously positive impact on their
predictive modeling capabilities and physical
description and, ultimately, on control of
these complex processes.
Success of the TMB consists from the successful
work of all of us. You are encouraged to
highlight the strongest parts of your work.