Program (last modification: 31.08.08)


Sunday, August 31
18:00 - 21:00 Registration
19:30 - 22:00 Welcome buffett

Monday, September 1
09:00 - 10:30 M. Maxey
Particle tracking and equations of motion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 O. Piro
Bailout embedding, a dynamics inspired by the motion of inertial particles in flows (I)

Tuesday, September 2
09:00 - 10:30 M. Maxey
Particles in simple and turbulent flows

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 E. Bodenschatz
Lagrangian dynamics of turbulence (I)

Wednesday, September 3
09:00 - 10:30 E. Villermaux
Sprays and raindrops (I)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 E. Bodenschatz
Lagrangian dynamics of turbulence (II)

Thursday, September 4
09:00 - 10:30 M. Wilkinson
Planet formation: Observational evidence and review of theories

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45 Z. Toroczkai
Trapping inertial tracers in open chaotic flows


11:45 - 12:30 J. Vollmer
Phase separation under slow cooling

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 E. Villermaux
Sprays and raindrops (II)

Friday, September 5
09:00 - 10:30 O. Piro
Bailout embedding, a dynamics inspired by the motion of inertial particles in flows (II)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 J. Cartwright
Complex interacting entities in fluid flows: Beyond passive scalars

14:00 - 15:30 Short presentations of participants

Monday, September 8
09:00 - 10:30 M. Maxey
Force-coupling method for particles in suspension

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 J. Bec
Basic tools from dissipative dynamical systems: Attractors, fractal dimensions, Lyapunov exponents

Tuesday, September 9
09:00 - 10:30 M. Wilkinson
Planet formation: Dust aggregation model versus a new hypothesis

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 J. Bec
Stochastic suspensions of inertial particles

Wednesday, September 10
09:00 - 10:30 S. Malinowski
Turbulent mixing in atmospheric clouds: Interactions between evaporating cloud particles and turbulence (I)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 J. Bec
Dissipative and inertial range clustering in turbulent flows


12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 S. Malinowski
Turbulent mixing in atmospheric clouds: Interactions between evaporating cloud particles and turbulence (II)

Thursday, September 11
09:00 - 10:30 S. Malinowski
Turbulent mixing in atmospheric clouds: Interactions between evaporating cloud particles and turbulence (III)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 J. Bec
Caustics and velocity statistics, application to collision rates

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 S. Malinowski
Turbulent mixing in atmospheric clouds: Interactions between evaporating cloud particles and turbulence (IV)

Friday, September 12
09:00 - 10:30 B. Mehlig
Clustering of inertial particles in turbulent flows

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 A. Lanotte
Condensation of cloud microdroplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 S. Malinowski
Turbulent mixing in atmospheric clouds: Interactions between evaporating cloud particles and turbulence (V)

Sunday, September 14
18:00 - 21:00 Registration
19:30 - 22:00 Welcome buffett

Monday, September 15
08:50 - 09:00 Opening session

09:00 - 09:35 L.-P. Wang
Turbulent collision-coalescence of cloud droplets and its impact on warm rain formation

09:35 - 10.10 S. Malinowski
Small-scale turbulent mixing in clouds

10:10 - 10:45 T. Elperin
Turbulent thermal diffusion of aerosols: Theory, laboratory experiments and atmospheric observations

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 11:50 J.-R. Angilella
Chaotic particle settling in elementary flow structures

11:50 - 12:25 N. Ouellette
Transport of finite size particles in chaotic flow

12:25 - 13:00 A. Lanotte
Spatial distribution and relative dispersion of heavy particles in turbulent flows

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 14:50 C. Grebogi
Open chaotic advection

14:50 - 15:25 R. Vilela
Signatures of fractal clustering of aerosols advected under gravity

15:25 - 16:00 A. Motter
Trapping and clustering heavy particles in open flows

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

DIPOAP08 Colloquium:
16:30 - 17:30 M. Maxey
Active particle suspensions: Inertial particles in turbulence to micro-swimmers

18:30 - 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, September 16

09:00 - 09:35 E. Meiburg
Dynamics of turbidity currents

09:35 - 10:10 J. Zahnow
Modeling of aggregate dynamics: An inertial particle approach

10:10 - 10:45 A. Provenzale
Plankton in turmoil: Stories on plankton sinking and suspension

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 11:50 M. Lunau
Biological reactivity of inertial particles in aquatic environments

11:50 - 12:25 C. Lopez
Oceanic mixing studies from satellites

12:25 - 13:00 M. Bourgoin
Experimental investigations of the turbulent transport of material particles

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 14:50 J. Gollub
Using particle trajectories to track topological features in chaotic flow

14:50 - 15:25 L. Collins
Inertial bias and its role in particle accelerations and clustering in isotropic turbulence

15:25 - 16:00 H. Xu
An experimental study of inertial particles in fully-developed turbulence

16:00 - 16:20 E. Calzavarini
Turbulent dispersion of inertial particles: Modeling of particle's finite size effect

16:20 - 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 - 17:20 A. Moura
Finite size particles, advection, and chaos: A collective phenomenon of auto-excitability

17:20 - 17:55 G. Szabó
Boiling and other challenges in industry and environment

17:55 - 18:30 F. Toschi
Velocity gradients along particles trajectories in turbulent flows

18:30 - 19:30 Dinner

19:30 - 20:30 Short poster presentations

20:30 - 22:00 Poster Session

Wednesday, September 17

09:00 - 09:35 J. Bec
Caustics and multi-scaling of heavy particle velocities in turbulent flows

09:35 - 10:10 G. Falkovich
Sling effects and caustics

10:10 - 10:45 M. Cencini
Dynamics and statistics of polydisperse suspensions of inertial particles

10:45 - 11.05 L. Biferale
Universality and intermittency in Lagrangian turbulence

11:05 - 11:35 Coffee break

11:35 - 12:10 G. Boffetta
Lagrangian statistics in fully developed turbulence

12:10 - 12:45 A. Pumir
Tetrad dynamics and the velocity gradient tensor in the inertial range

12:45 - 13:05 P. Olla
Clustering and collision of inertial particles in random velocity fields

13:05 - 13:25 E.-W. Saw
Experimental study of inertial particle clustering using phase Doppler interferometry

13:25 Lunch

14:00 Excursion to Weesenstein castle and Pillnitz Garden, Conference Dinner in Pillnitz (tour by bus)

Thursday, September 18

09:00 - 09:35 G. Haller
Slow manifolds and instabilities in the dynamics of inertial particles

09:35 - 10:10 O. Piro
Transiently dissipative but asymptotically conservative dynamics: Neutrally buoyant bodies, tidal synchronization of celestial bodies

10:10 - 10:45 M. Wilkinson
Collisions in turbulent aerosols and the problem of planet formation

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 11:50 Z. Warhaft
Lagrangian measurements of inertial particle acceleration in a turbulent boundary layer

11:50 - 12:25 J.-F. Pinton
Lagrangian measurements using instrumented particles

12:25 - 13:00 N. Mordant
Laser Doppler measurement of inertial particle and bubble acceleration in turbulence

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 14:50 S. Shy
Interaction between particles and homogeneous turbulence: Particle settling and turbulence modification measurements

14:50 - 15:25 I. Scheuring
Sinking phytoplankton in a turbulent flow

15:25 - 15:45 I. Benczik
Multi-species coexistence of inertial competitors

15:45 - 16:05 C. Schrum
The role of inertial particle dynamics for modeling planktonic organisms in the ocean

16:05 - 16.25 J. Slawinska
Numerical modeling of cloud microphysics, impact of entrainment and mixing on clouds

16:25 - 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 - 17:10 J. Schumacher
Lagrangian aspects of heat transport in turbulent convection

17:10 - 17:30 T. Sapsis
Instabilities on the dynamics of inertial particles motion: Applications

17:30 - 17:50 V. Bezuglyy
Fingerprints of random flows

17:50 - 18:10 A. Scagliarini
Dynamics of vortex filaments in turbulence and their impact on particle dispersion

18:10 - 19:00 Dinner

19:00 - 21:00 Poster session

Friday, September 19
09:00 - 09:35 B. Eckhardt
Geometry of particle paths

09:35 - 10:10 E. Ermanyuk
Dynamics of a body in a continuously stratified fluid: Forces and internal wave generation

10:10 - 10:45 I. Janosi
Decaying turbulence in stratified fluids - An experimentalist's view

10:45 - 11:05 J. Martinez
On bubble clustering and bubble velocity statistics in pseudoturbulence

11:05 - 11:35 Coffee break

11:35 - 12:10 J. Cartwright
Complex interacting entities in fluid flows: Intelligent advection

12:10 - 12:45 A. Bracco
Scaling two-dimensional turbulence towards the classical limit of infinite Reynolds number

12:45 - 13:20 B. Mehlig
Relative velocities of inertial particles in turbulent flows

13:20 - 13:25 Closing remarks

Monday, September 22
09:00 - 10:30 M. Maxey
Active particle suspensions

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 L.-P. Wang
Computational and theoretical study of turbulent collision of inertial particles (I)

Tuesday, September 23
09:00 - 10:30 E. Bodenschatz
Turbulence in complex fluids (I)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 L.-P. Wang
Computational and theoretical study of turbulent collision of inertial particles (II)

Wednesday, September 24
09:00 - 10:30 E. Bodenschatz
Turbulence in complex fluids (II)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 B. Mehlig
Caustics and relative velocities of inertial particles in turbulent flows

Thursday, September 25
09:00 - 10:30 L.-P. Wang
Computational and theoretical study of turbulent collision of inertial particles (III)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 presentations by participants

Friday, September 26
09:00 - 10:30 L.-P.Wang
Computational and theoretical study of turbulent collision of inertial particles (IV)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 presentations by participants