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[2012-03-17]
LTCS sponsors KITPC program
The State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Peking University, has sponsored a six-week academic exchange program "New Directions in Turbulence" of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITPC), the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Shiyi Chen, director of LTCS, acts as chair of the program. LTCS Professor Zhensu She and Cunbiao Lee are co-local coordinators. Many professors of LTCS attended the program.
Turbulence means a physical state of a flow with many dynamically active variables and far from equilibrium. It is one of the great problems of classical physics still mainly unsolved. Advances in key issues such as energy generation, pollution mitigation, and climate change, as well as progress in several fields of fundamental science from astrophysics to geophysics, are limited by the lack of understanding of the physics of turbulence.
In these circumstances, international and local coordinators organized the six-week program, lasting from March 12 to April 20, to serve as a platform for experts in turbulence study to communicate the recent development with a hope to identify promising breakthrough directions. 84 scientists from theory, numerics and experiments have participated. Topics include sub-grid modeling, wall bounded flows, non Newtonian flows, turbulence in rotating systems, geophysical flows, Lagrangian and Eulerian turbulence, thermal convection & magnetohydrodynamics, turbulence modeling and theory.
Luca Biferale, Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", is the main international organizer. He said that as China is having an increasing impact in the world as a fast developing country, it is important that foreign scientists come to China and contact with Chinese counterparts.
Professor Shiyi Chen is the main local coordinator. He said that LTCS supports the program so that local young scholars and students may get to know the frontier research in this area, as well as to interact with distinguished scientists both at home and abroad, without having to travel around. Chen has over 20 years’ research experience in turbulence. He gave a talk on turbulent flows simulation titled "Constrained Large Eddy Simulation for Incompressible and Compressible Separated Turbulent Flows" on March 15.
The program is hosted by KITPC of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There was a similar program “The Nature of Turbulence” conducted in the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara last year.
Program schedule: http://www.kitpc.ac.cn/program.jsp?id=PN20120312