CNRS-NSF Workshop on
Three-dimensional Stratified and Sheared Turbulent Flows:
Comparison between DNS, LES and Observations

December 19-20th, 2001


Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Université Pierre et Marie Curie


Campus de Jussieu, Paris
Tour 25, niveau rez-de-Chaussee
Metro: Jussieu




Program :




Wednesday December 19th afternoon :

Atmospheric boundary layer


2. 00 - 2. 30 p.m.

Joel Ferziger
Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, USA
and Invited Professor at LMD-ENS, Paris, France
Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation of the cloud topped atmospheric boundary layer

2. 30 - 3. 00 p.m.

Alain Lahellec and Frédéric Hourdin
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France,
About the atmospheric boundary layer sub-grid parametrization In Global Circulation Models

3. 00 - 3. 30 p.m.

Anne Mathieu
KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Characterization of the amtospheric boundary layer using observations and model output

3. 30 - 4. 00 p.m.

Pause

4. 00 - 4. 30 p.m.

Evgeni Fedorovich
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, USA
Zero-order model of penetrative convection in linearly stratified fluid reevaluated through Large Eddy Simulation

4. 30 - 5. 00 p.m.

Pierre Carlotti and Jean-Luc Redelsperger
Pôle Ventilation-Environnement, Centre d'Etude des Tunnels, Bron, France,
and CNRM, Meteo-France, France
Large Eddy Simulation and structure of turbulence near the ground

5. 00 - 6. 00 p.m.

Open discussion

 



Thursday December 20th morning :

Stratified and sheared turbulent flows


 


9. 00 - 9. 30 a.m

Marc Forestier, Richard Pasquetti and Roger Peyret
Laboratoire de Modélisation et de Simulation Numérique en Mécanique, Marseille, France,
and Laboratoire Dieudonné, Université de Nice-Sofia Antipolis, Nice, France
Numerical study of 3D wakes in stratified fluids, using a spectral multi-domain solver with a penalty method

9. 30 - 10. 00 a.m

Frank Jacobitz
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside, USA
Direct numerical simulations of turbulence in stratified shear flows

10. 00 - 10. 30 a.m.

Chantal Staquet
Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Interactions of inertia-gravity waves with a barotropic shear flow

10. 30 - 11. 00 a.m.

Pause

11. 00 - 11. 30 a.m.

Francis Dalaudier
Service d'Aéronomie, Vérrières-Le-Buisson, France
High resolution measurements within the stratosphere

11. 30 - 12. 00 a.m.

Alex Mahalov and Basil Nicolaenko
Departement of Mathematics and Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA,
and Invited Professors at LMD-ENS, Paris, France
Quasi-equilibrium dynamics of stratified turbulence in a model tropospheric jet

12. 00 - 1. 00 p.m.

Open discussion

 


Thursday December 20th afternoon :

Rotating and sheared turbulent flows



2. 00 - 2. 30 p.m.

Bérengère Dubrulle and Franck Hersant
Groupe Instabilite et Turbulence, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France
Small Eddy Simulation of plane parallel flows

2. 30 - 3. 00 p.m.

Keith Moffatt
Department of Applied and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, UK
Distortion of turbulence by uniform shear

3. 00 - 3. 30 p.m.

Claude Cambon
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique,
Ecole Centrale, Lyon, France
Turbulent diffusion in rapidly rotating flows with and without stable stratification

3. 30 - 4. 00 p.m.

Pause

4. 00 - 4. 30 p.m.

Susan Friedlander
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Nonlinear instability for stratified shear flow

4. 30 - 5. 00 p.m.

Jean-Marc Chomaz and Paul Billant
Laboratoire D'Hydrodynamique de l'X, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau,
France
Stability of columnar dipole in a stratified rotating fluid

5. 00 - 6. 00 p.m.

Open discussion

 

This workshop is organized in the framework of

the NSF-CNRS Collaboration on 'Transport and Mixing of Reactive and
Passive Scalars in Rotating Stratified Geophysical Flows',

the CNRS-DFG Research Program on 'Numerische Stroemungssimulation'

and the CNRS Network on 'Mecanique des Fluides Numeriques'

 

For more information, contact:

Marie Farge
LMD-CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure,
24, rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 5.

Tel: 33-(0)1-44-32-22-35
Fax: 33-(0)1-43-36-83-92
Email: farge@lmd.ens.fr

 

 


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