Cascades in Quantum, Classical and Stratified Turbulence

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报告题目: Cascades in Quantum, Classical and Stratified Turbulence

报告人:Prof. Robert Kerr 
主持人:佘振苏
报告时间:2013年3月8日下午15:00
报告地点:工学院一号楼210会议室

报告内容简介:

Numerical results will be given for the generation of energy cascades to small scales from the interaction and reconnection of very long anti-parallel vortices for three types of flows: Superfluids, Navier-Stokes turbulence and stably stratified fluids. All are known to generate an energy cascade to small scales and a -5/3 kinetic energy spectrum in experiments and large isotropic forced or decaying simulations, but it has been very difficult to generate evidence for a cascade using simple combinations of initial vortices.

About the speaker:

Research Interests: Turbulence, nonlinear PDEs, atmospheric modelling

Most relevant recent publications:

D. Donzis, J.D Gibbon, A. Gupta, R.M. Kerr, R. Pandit, D. Vincenzi: 2013 Vorticity moments in four numerical simulations of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. arXiv:1302.1768v1

R.M Kerr: 2012 Incompressible hydrodynamic turbulence from a chain reaction of vortex reconnection events. arXiv:1212.3829v2

R. M. Kerr: 2012 Bounds on a singular attractor in Euler using vorticity moments. arXiv:1212.1106v1.

R.M. Kerr: 2012 Dissipation and enstrophy statistics in turbulence: Are the simulations and mathematics converging?

J. Fluid Mech. 700, 1-4.

R.M. Kerr, M. Oliver: 2011 The Ever-Elusive Blowup in the Mathematical Description of Fluids. In An Invitation to Mathematics: From Competitions to Research, D. Schleicher and M. Lackmann (eds.), pp. 137--164, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Proceedings of the 50th International Mathematics Olympiad, Bremen, Germany, August 2009.

R.M. Kerr 2011: Vortex stretching as a mechanism for quantum kinetic energy decay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224501.

Research grants:

Leverhulme, Anti-paralell Vortex in three dimensional (01/04/2006 - 31/03/2009)

ONR, Environmental Turbulence Workshop (02/03/2006 - 17/03/2007)

EPSRC Generating High Resolution DNS for LES Comparisons (1.10.2005 - 30.9.2009)