Home MaPS

17th International Couette-Taylor Workshop

University of Leeds

Monday 25 - Wednesday 27 July, 2011

Organiser: Dr. Rainer Hollerbach (rh_at_maths.leeds.ac.uk)
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~rh/

Couette-Taylor
                      Workshop


Registration and Accommodation
Programme
Links
Participants


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.

Registration is available with instant confirmation via the University of Leeds secure online conference booking and payment system. You can also book accommodation via this system. Payment must be made by credit or debit card. You will be required to create a new customer account. Please click here.

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.
Campus map (84 = Maths / Earth and Environment Building, 19 = Business School, 28 = University House, 86 = Storm Jameson Court).



Conference Photo

ICT
              conference photo


Programme

[Click here for pdf file of programme, without abstracts]

Monday July 25
8:30 - 9:15  
Welcome and Registration
                          
S Altmeyer, C Hoffmann
Secondary bifurcation of mixed cross-spirals connecting different travelling wave solutions

R Lueptow, E Serre, D Martinand
The transition to wavy vortices

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

Y Tasaka, M Iima
Global flow transition induced by local disturbances generated by rotor-cylinder gap in rotating fluids with free surface

C Guervilly, P Cardin, N Schaeffer
A dynamo driven by zonal jets at the upper surface: applications to giant planets
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break

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

C Gissinger, A Roach, E Edlund, E Spence, H Ji, J Goodman
Magnetorotational instability (MRI) in laboratory experiments

M Seilmayer, G Gerbeth, T Gundrum, F Stefani, T Weier, M Gellert, G Rudiger
A liquid metal experiment on the Tayler instability

M Gellert, G Rudiger, M Schultz, F Stefani, M Seilmayer
Tayler instability influenced by internal heating

O Kirillov, F Stefani
Paradox of Velikhov-Chandrasekhar and the ultimate limit for the onset of helical magnetorotational instability
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch

R Hollerbach, X Wei, A Jackson
Electromagnetically driven flows in a rapidly rotating spherical shell

T Watanabe
Bead-like vortex and sickle-like vortex found around a thick rotating disk in a casing

A Christl, N Scurtu, C Egbers
Eccentric Taylor-Couette flow with orbital motion of the inner cylinder

P Stucke, M Schmidt, M Nobis
Three-dimensional computation of the Couette flow in journal bearings

T Seelig, U Harlander, R Faulwetter, C Egbers
Irregular and singular vector growth in the differentially heated rotating annulus
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee Break

D Barkley (Invited Talk, 45 minutes)
Simplifying the complexity of pipe flow

G Pfister, M Heise, C Will, O Staack, J Abshagen
A stationary-turbulent transition in enclosed Taylor-Couette flow

M Burin
Gap-width and end-cap effects on the sub-critical transition to turbulence
5.30 - 6.30
Drinks Reception


Tuesday July 26
9:00 - 9:15
Registration Desk Open

M Gassa Feugaing, O Crumeyrolle, I Mutabazi
Modulated Couette-Taylor flow

C Panades, F Marques
Bifurcations to three-dimensional flows in a periodically driven cylindrical cavity 

T Watanabe
Time constant in the onset and decay flow of Taylor-Couette flow around critical Reynolds number 

R Khayat, B Albaalbaki
Non-Newtonian induced thermal convection patterns 
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break

N Latrache, I Mutabazi, O Crumeyrolle
Transition to inertioelastic turbulence via spatio-temporal intermittency in a viscoelastic Couette-Taylor flow

N Scurtu, P Gorenz, C Egbers
Magnetorotational-type instability in Couette-Taylor flows of viscoelastic polymeric liquids 

B Alibenyahia, C Lemaitre, C Nouar
Taylor-Couette flow of viscoplastic fluids

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 

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
Lunch

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

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 

M Paoletti, D Lathrop
Turbulent angular momentum transport measurements in rapidly rotating Taylor-Couette flow up to Re=4.4 x 10^6

S Merbold, C Egbers
Turbulent Couette-Taylor flow - An experimental investigation of the angular momentum flux 
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee Break

H Brauckmann, B Eckhardt
Torque calculations for Taylor-Couette flow

F Marques, J Lopez
Boundary layer instabilities in rapidly rotating flows 

S Huisman, D van Gils, C Sun, D Lohse
Turbulent statistics in Taylor-Couette flow 

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    
Dinner


Wednesday July 27
9:00 - 9:15
Registration Desk Open

D Zhilenko, O Krivonosova
Various turbulent states in wide gap spherical layer

D Zhilenko, O Krivonosova
Secondary flow state selection in wide gap spherical layer under inner sphere acceleration action: experiment and DNS 

S Koch, U Harlander, R Hollerbach, C Egbers
Laboratory experiment and numerical simulations of inertial wave interactions in a rotating spherical shell 

K Buhler
Numerical Simulations of spherical gap flows with superimposed mass flux 
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break

J Lopez (Invited Talk, 45 minutes)
Rotating thermal convection

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 

F Feudel, L Tuckerman, C Egbers
Convection patterns in a central forced spherical fluid shell under microgravity conditions 

O Crumeyrolle, M Smieszek, I Mutabazi, C Egbers
Dielectrophoretic instabilities in annular configurations 
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch

K Hirata, N Nakamura, H Tanigawa
On the effect of forced-oscillation amplitude upon thermal convection in a cube

R Bellatreche, M Ouali, A Bouabdallah
Assessment of entropy variation in Taylor-Couette flow

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 

M Nagata, K Deguchi
Mirror symmetric travelling wave solution in plane Poiseuille flow 
3:00 - 3:30
Coffee and Farewell



Links

Information on previous International Couette-Taylor Workshops.
School of Mathematics homepage.


Things to do in Leeds

Information about Leeds
Yorkshire Tourist Board
Royal Armouries
Harewood House

Surrounding Areas

York - general information, train information, York Minster, Jorvik Viking Centre, National Railway Museum
Harrogate - general information, bus information, Betty's Tea Rooms
Howarth (Bronte Country)
The Yorkshire Dales




Last updated: 6 October 2011