Charting
new directions
A
symposium on laminar-tubular transition aims to improve understanding
of turbulence modelling, aerodynamics, and fluid mechanics
The IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
has organised a symposium on laminar-tubular transition. The symposium
will be held in Bangalore, India at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For
Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). It will be held from December
13-17, 2004. The special fields under discussion will be turbulence
modelling, turbulence theory, simulation of turbulence, DNS (Direct
Numerical Simulation) and LES (Large Eddy Simulation), non-newtonian
flows, multiphase flows, aerodynamics, instabilities flow and fluid
mechanics. The objective of the symposium is to increase understanding
of the dynamics of transition from laminar to turbulent flows. This
field has proved to be a major challenge in theoretical and applied
mechanics. However, a series of IUTAM symposia held at well-known centres
at Sendai(Japan), Novosibirsk(Russia), Stuttgart(Germany), Toulouse(France)
and Sedona(Arizona) – over the last twenty five years have proved
to be a great catalyst in speeding up the understanding of this field.This
has given a boost to research and an increased assimilation of the field.
At this point of time, the field is changing significantly with several
emerging directions. The sixth meeting in the series is being held,
to discuss progress after the Sedona meeting in 1999 and chart out important
directions for the future. The sponsors include various prestigious
organisations such as the JNCASR, the US Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development at Tokyo,
the Defence Research & Development Organisation of the Government
of India and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited located at Bangalore, India.
The speakers include members of the academia
and the industry such as:
Professor Jaywant H Arakeri, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science.
Professor Ndaona Chokani, Department of Mechanical Engineering
and Materials Science, Duke University, US
Professor Jeffery D Crouch, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington,
US
Professor Dan Henningson, Department of Mechanics, KTH, Stockholm,
Sweden
Professor Tom Mullin, Director, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear
Dynamics, Manchester University, UK
Dr Xuesong Wu, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, UK.
The scientific committee of the event will comprise of:
Professor Rama Govindarajan (Chair), Engineering Mechanics Unit,
JNCASR, India
Professor Roddam Narasimha (IUTAM Representative), Engineering
Mechanics Unit, JNCASR, India
Professor Daniel Arnal, ONERA -Toulouse Research Centre, Toulouse,
France
Professor Mike Gaster, Queen Mary, University of London, United
Kingdom
Professor Leonhard Kleiser, Elgenossische Technische Hochschule,
Zurich Institut fur Fluid Dynamik, Switzerland
Professor YP Kohama, Tohoku University, Aramaki aza Aoba, Sendai,
Japan
Professor William Saric, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Arizona, US ...
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