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17th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
University of Leeds
Monday 25 - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
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Invited Speakers
Professor Dwight Barkley (Warwick)
Professor Juan Lopez (Arizona State)
Professor Chao Sun (Twente)
Registration and
Accommodation
Accommodation (fully en-suite at £45/night, or semi
en-suite at £35/night) has been reserved at Storm
Jameson Court, which is at the heart of the university
campus.
The early registration fee (valid until April 15th) for the
meeting is: £200 (£120 for Research
Students). This will include lunch on all three days,
plus coffee/tea breaks. The conference dinner on
Tuesday evening is £40.
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University of Leeds secure online conference booking and
payment system. You can also book accommodation via this
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If you require alternative means of payment, please note a
surcharge may apply. Contact Paul on ICTW2011@leeds.ac.uk
for more information.
Workshop Venue
The Workshop will be held at the University of Leeds,
Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre (Business School).
The conference dinner will take place in the Great
Woodhouse Suite, University House, at the University of
Leeds on Tuesday 26 July.
Click
here for directions to the University of Leeds.
Directions to the School
of Mathematics.
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(84 = Maths / Earth and Environment Building, 19 = Business
School, 28 = University House, 86 = Storm Jameson Court).
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Programme
[Click here for pdf file of
programme, without abstracts]
Monday July 25
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8:30 - 9:15
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Welcome and
Registration
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S Altmeyer, C
Hoffmann
Secondary
bifurcation of mixed cross-spirals connecting
different travelling wave solutions
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R Lueptow, E Serre, D
Martinand
The
transition to wavy vortices
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H Furukawa, M Ohno, N
Ohazama, N Suzuki, T Watanabe
Analysis
of Taylor vortex flow with small aspect ratio by
particle image velocimetry (PIV) method
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Y Tasaka, M Iima
Global flow
transition induced by local disturbances generated
by rotor-cylinder gap in rotating fluids with free
surface
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C Guervilly, P
Cardin, N Schaeffer
A dynamo
driven by zonal jets at the upper surface:
applications to giant planets
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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D Brito, T
Alboussiere, P Cardin, N Gagniere, D Jault, P La
Rizza, J-P Masson, H-C Nataf, D Schmitt
Zonal shear
and super-rotation in a magnetized spherical
Couette flow experiment
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C Gissinger, A Roach,
E Edlund, E Spence, H Ji, J Goodman
Magnetorotational
instability (MRI) in laboratory experiments
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M Seilmayer, G
Gerbeth, T Gundrum, F Stefani, T Weier, M Gellert, G
Rudiger
A liquid
metal experiment on the Tayler instability
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M Gellert, G Rudiger,
M Schultz, F Stefani, M Seilmayer
Tayler
instability influenced by internal heating
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O Kirillov, F Stefani
Paradox
of Velikhov-Chandrasekhar and the ultimate limit
for the onset of helical magnetorotational
instability
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12:30 - 2:00
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Lunch
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R Hollerbach, X Wei,
A Jackson
Electromagnetically
driven
flows
in
a
rapidly
rotating spherical shell |
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T Watanabe
Bead-like
vortex and sickle-like vortex found around a thick
rotating disk in a casing
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A Christl, N Scurtu,
C Egbers
Eccentric
Taylor-Couette flow with orbital motion of the
inner cylinder
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P Stucke, M Schmidt,
M Nobis
Three-dimensional
computation
of the Couette flow in journal bearings
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T Seelig, U
Harlander, R Faulwetter, C Egbers
Irregular
and singular vector growth in the differentially
heated rotating annulus
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3:30 - 4:00
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Coffee Break
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D Barkley (Invited Talk, 45
minutes)
Simplifying
the complexity of pipe flow
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G Pfister, M Heise, C
Will, O Staack, J Abshagen
A
stationary-turbulent transition in enclosed
Taylor-Couette flow
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M Burin
Gap-width and
end-cap effects on the sub-critical transition to
turbulence
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5.30 - 6.30
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Drinks Reception
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Tuesday July 26
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9:00 - 9:15
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Registration Desk
Open
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M Gassa Feugaing, O
Crumeyrolle, I Mutabazi
Modulated
Couette-Taylor flow
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C Panades, F Marques
Bifurcations
to three-dimensional flows in a periodically
driven cylindrical cavity |
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T Watanabe
Time
constant in the onset and decay flow of
Taylor-Couette flow around critical Reynolds
number |
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R Khayat, B
Albaalbaki
Non-Newtonian
induced
thermal convection patterns |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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N Latrache, I
Mutabazi, O Crumeyrolle
Transition
to inertioelastic turbulence via spatio-temporal
intermittency in a viscoelastic Couette-Taylor
flow
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N Scurtu, P Gorenz, C
Egbers
Magnetorotational-type
instability
in
Couette-Taylor
flows
of
viscoelastic
polymeric liquids |
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B Alibenyahia, C
Lemaitre, C Nouar
Taylor-Couette
flow of viscoplastic fluids |
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S Papacek, V
Stumbauer, D Stys, K Petera
Couette-Taylor
photo-bioreactor:
A perfect tool to explore both the impact of
hydrodynamic mixing and shear stress on microalgae
cells |
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V Stumbauer, S
Papacek, V Kotal, D Stys, K Petera
Couette-Taylor
photo-bioreactor:
A perfect tool to explore the microalgae cell
damage by shear stress |
12:30 - 2:00
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Lunch
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C Sun, D van Gils, S
Huisman, G-W Bruggert, D Lohse (Invited Talk, 45 minutes)
Torque scaling
in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with co- and
counter-rotating cylinders
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S Tokgoz, G Elsinga,
R Delfos, J Westerweel
An
experimental study on the influence of the
coherent structures to the torque scaling in
turbulent Taylor-Couette flow |
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M Paoletti, D Lathrop
Turbulent
angular momentum transport measurements in rapidly
rotating Taylor-Couette flow up to Re=4.4 x 10^6
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S Merbold, C Egbers
Turbulent
Couette-Taylor flow - An experimental
investigation of the angular momentum flux
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3:30 - 4:00
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Coffee Break
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H Brauckmann, B
Eckhardt
Torque
calculations for Taylor-Couette flow
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F Marques, J Lopez
Boundary
layer instabilities in rapidly rotating
flows |
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S Huisman, D van
Gils, C Sun, D Lohse
Turbulent
statistics in Taylor-Couette flow |
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D van Gils, D Guzman, C
Sun, D Lohse
Drag
reduction, bubble distribution and velocity
profiles in bubbly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow
(Awarded best
student presentation prize) |
6:30 - 10:00
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Dinner
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Wednesday July 27
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9:00 - 9:15
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Registration Desk Open
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D Zhilenko, O
Krivonosova
Various
turbulent states in wide gap spherical layer
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D Zhilenko, O
Krivonosova
Secondary
flow state selection in wide gap spherical layer
under inner sphere acceleration action: experiment
and DNS |
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S Koch, U Harlander,
R Hollerbach, C Egbers
Laboratory
experiment and numerical simulations of inertial
wave interactions in a rotating spherical
shell |
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K Buhler
Numerical
Simulations of spherical gap flows with
superimposed mass flux |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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J Lopez (Invited Talk, 45
minutes)
Rotating
thermal convection
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B Futterer, F
Zaussinger, S Koch, A Krebs, C Egbers
Nonlinear
effects
and associated instabilities in iso-viscous and
temperature-dependent viscous thermal convection
in spherical shells |
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F Feudel, L
Tuckerman, C Egbers
Convection
patterns
in a central forced spherical fluid shell under
microgravity conditions |
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O Crumeyrolle, M
Smieszek, I Mutabazi, C Egbers
Dielectrophoretic
instabilities in annular configurations
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12:30 - 2:00
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Lunch
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K Hirata, N Nakamura,
H Tanigawa
On the
effect of forced-oscillation amplitude upon
thermal convection in a cube
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R Bellatreche, M
Ouali, A Bouabdallah
Assessment
of entropy variation in Taylor-Couette flow
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T von Larcher, A
Fournier, R Hollerbach
The
influence of bottom topography on the linear
stability of baroclinic waves in the thermally
driven rotating annulus |
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M Nagata, K Deguchi
Mirror
symmetric travelling wave solution in plane
Poiseuille flow |
3:00 - 3:30
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Coffee and Farewell
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Links
Information on previous International
Couette-Taylor Workshops.
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Mathematics homepage.
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