8th International Symposium on Stratified Flows (ISSF)

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Monday, August 29
Time Session/Title Presenter: bold except where indicated by **
9:00 to 10:00

IAHR Fluid Mechanics Committee Lecture: Intraseasonal Dynamics of Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans

Chair: Kraig Winters

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

H.J.S. Fernando, University of Notre Dame
10:00 to 10:15

Coffee break

 
10:15 to 12:00

Morning Parallel Sessions:

Emil J. Hopfinger Session

Oceanic Internal Waves

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

 
10:15 to 12:00

Session: Emil J. Hopfinger

Chair: Larry Armi

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
10:20 Internal hydraulic jumps: Interactions between entraining shear layers and altered conjugate states Gregory Lawrence, Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
10:40 Dynamics of lock-release gravity currents over sparse and dense rough bottoms Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
11:00 The front condition for gravity currents propagating over rough boundaries Roger Nokes, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, Univ. of Canterbury
11:20 Tracking mixing by overturning internal waves Philippe Odier, Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon, France
11:40 Gyre generation after a typhoon-induced upwelling in a stratified lake Guillaume Auger, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Oceanic Internal Waves

Chair: Thomas Peacock

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
10:20 Global patterns of internal wave variability from observations of full-depth rotary shear spectra Amy Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:40 Variability of the internal wave continuum: study of 2500 worldwide seasonal to inter-annual time series Arnaud Le Boyer, MPL, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
11:00 Interactions Between Surface Gravity Wave Groups and Deep Stratification in the Ocean Sean Haney, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
11:20 Propagation of near-inertial waves beneath atmospheric storm tracks on the non-traditional β-plane Marine Tort, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
11:40 Near-inertial wave transmission in the Arctic Ocean Thomas Peacock, MIT
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Chair: Andy Hogg

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
10:20 Influence of forced near-inertial motion on the kinetic energy of a nearly-geostrophic flow Stephanne Taylor, McGill, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
10:40 Laboratory modelling of momentum transport by internal gravity waves and eddies in the Antarctic circumpolar current Joel Sommeria, Laboratoire LEGI, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes
11:00 Interacting SQG Vortices and Passive Scalar Transport Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD
11:20 Boussinesq dynamics of an idealized tropopause Olivier Asselin, McGill University
11:40 Buoyancy-driven gyres in the midlatitude ocean Andy Hogg, Australian National University
12:00 to 1:20

Lunch

 
1:20 to 3:00

Afternoon Parallel Sessions I:

Instabilities in Laboratory Flows

Internal Wave Energy Cascade

Stratified Turbulence: Observations

 
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Instabilities in Laboratory Flows

Chair: Patrice Le Gal

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
1:20 Experimental study of flow instabilities in a rotating annulus with local convective forcing Hélène Scolan, Department of Physics, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
1:40 Layer formation in stratified Taylor-Couette Flow Jamie Partridge, University of Cambridge
2:00 Shear instabilities in a tilting tube Edmund Tedford, Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
2:20 The Barostrat Instability: the baroclinic instability in a rotating stratified fluid Patrice Le Gal, IRPHE, CNRS - Aix Marseille University - Centrale Marseille
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Internal Wave Energy Cascade

Chair: Kurt Polzin

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
1:20 Three-dimensional Instability of Internal Gravity Wave Beams Takeshi Kataoka, Kobe University
1:40 Damping of 3D internal wave attractors by lateral walls Felix Beckebanze, Mathematical Institute, Utrecht University, Netherlands
2:00 Energy Cascade in Internal Wave Attractors Thierry Dauxois, ENS de Lyon & CNRS
2:20 A Space-Time Approach to Wave Turbulence --- WITHDRAWN 8/27 Kurt Polzin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Stratified Turbulence: Observations

Chair: Rocky Geyer

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
1:20 Direct Measurements of Flux Richardson Number in the Nearshore Coastal Ocean Jeffrey Koseff, Stanford University
1:40 Anatomy of a turbulent patch in a large shallow lake Leon Boegman, Civil Engineering, Queen's University
2:00 Mixing in stratified-shear flows forced by internal waves Cynthia Bluteau, Univ. of Western Australia, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering
2:20 Tidal mixing, scattering, and reflection on the East Tasman Slope Robert Pinkel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2:40 Shear instabiliity at marginally subcritical Ri Rocky Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
3:00 to 3:20

Coffee break

 
3:20 to 5:00

Afternoon Parallel Sessions II:

Layered Flows

Generation of Internal Gravity Waves

Stratified Turbulence in the Lab

 
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Layered Flows

Chair: Larry Pratt

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
3:20 Internal Hydraulic Jumps with Upstream Shear and Topography Kelly Ogden, MIT & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
3:40 Experimental study on dynamical blocking conditions of net exchange flows Janek Laanearu, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
4:00 Extended fully-nonlinear and strongly-dispersive internal wave equations in a three-layer system Keisuke Nakayama, Kobe University
4:20 Ageostrophic Instability and Mixing in a Dense Overflow Larry Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Generation of Internal Gravity Waves

Chair: Peter Baines

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
3:20 SOMAR-LES for multiscale modeling of internal tide generation Vamsi Chalamalla, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:40 Oceanic Internal Gravity Waves Radiated After a Cyclonic Surface Stress Disturbance Georg Sebastian Voelker, University of Bremen, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Science
4:00 Soliton-like internal waves on a shelf: processes of their generation Andrey Serebryany, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Space Research Institute RAS, Andreyev Acoustics Institute
4:20 Basin Mode Internal Tides Jennifer Thomas, Oregon State University, CEOAS
4:40 The Generation of Internal Waves by Explosive Volcanic Eruptions Peter Baines, Dept. of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Stratified Turbulence in the Lab

Chair: Olivier Eiff

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
3:20 First report of the Milestone experiment: strongly stratified turbulence and mixing efficiency in the Coriolis platform Antoine Campagne, Laboratoire LEGI, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes
3:40 Three-dimensional, time-resolved velocity and density measurements of the stratified shear flow in an inclined duct Adrien Lefauve, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
4:00 Mixing Efficiency in a Lock Exchange Experiment Diane Micard, LMFA, CNRS, Université de Lyon
4:20 High Reynolds Number Stratified Wakes Alan Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
4:40 Decaying stratified grid turbulence measurements Olivier Eiff, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
5:15 to 6:15

Plenary: Vertical transport of particles, drops, and microorganisms in density stratified fluids

Chair: Eckart Meiburg

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

Arezoo Ardekani, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

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Tuesday, August 30
Time Session/Title Presenter: bold except where indicated by **
9:00 to 10:00

Plenary: High-resolution observations of internal wave induced turbulence in the deep ocean

Chair: Thierry Dauxois

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

Hans van Haren, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) & Utrecht University
10:00 to 10:15

Coffee break

 
10:15 to 12:00

Morning Parallel Sessions:

Paul F. Linden Session

Lab Experiments II

Stratified Turbulence: Theory

 
10:15 to 12:00

Session: Paul F. Linden

Chair: Colm-cille Caulfield

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
10:20 Buoyant convection from a discrete source in closed and leaky porous media Morris Flynn, Univ. of Alberta
10:40 A Study of a Model for the Generation of Internal Waves by a Moving Body and Its Turbulent Wake James Rottman, Leidos, Inc.
11:00 Dynamics of plumes driven by localized heating in a stably stratified ambient Juan Lopez, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
11:20 Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Interaction between a Vortex Ring and a Stratified Interface: The Evolution of the Density Field Jason Olsthoorn, University of Cambridge - DAMTP
11:40 The significance of engulfment in the process of turbulent entrainment by plumes Henry Burridge, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Lab Experiments II

Chair: Alberto de la Fuente

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
10:20 A filtering approach for analyzing turbulent stratified shear flows Robert Ecke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:40 High Stokes number wave focusing by a circular ridge: Internal, inertial and inertia–gravity waves Natalia Shmakova, Labo. des Ecoulements Geophys. et Industriels (LEGI)
11:00 Measurements of fluid transport by controllable vertical migrations of plankton Isabel Houghton, Stanford University
11:20 An affordable, open-source, microscale conductivity and temperature probe for density measurements in stratified flows Marco Carminati, Politecnico di Milano
11:40 Laboratory study on periodic heat exchanges between water and sediment in extremely shallow flows Salvador López, Ingeniería Civil, Universidad de Chile
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Stratified Turbulence: Theory

Chair: Antoine Venaille

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
10:20 Reduced Modeling of Strongly Stratified Turbulence Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
10:40 On the mixing efficiency in stably stratified turbulence Karan Venayagamoorthy, Colorado State University
11:00 Isolating turbulent spots in stratified Plane-Couette flow John Taylor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
11:20 Mixing efficiency in stratified turbulence Andrea Maffioli, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
11:40 A statistical theory of mixing in stratified fluids Antoine Venaille, Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Univ Lyon
12:00 to 1:20

Lunch

 
1:20 to 3:00

Afernoon Parallel Sessions I:

Buoyancy Driven Flows

Instability of Stratified Shear Flow

Double Diffusion

 
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Buoyancy Driven Flows

Chair: Hugo Ulloa

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
1:20 Entrainment in stratified environments — an interface-based approach Dominik Krug, The University of Melbourne, Australia
1:40 Global stability and flow transition in horizontal convection Pierre-Yves Passaggia, UNC Chapel Hill
2:00 Surface salinity response to transient river discharges in a NZ ROFI system Joe O'Callaghan, NIWA
2:20 Tidal effects in a realistic model of a thermally buoyant plume north of Pt. Conception Sutara Suanda, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2:40 High variability in cross-shore thermally driven exchange Hugo Ulloa, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Instability of Stratified Shear Flow

Chair: Jeff Carpenter

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
1:20 Stability of stratified downslope flows with an overlying isolating layer Arjun Jagannathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
1:40 Prandtl number effects on mixing in Kelvin-Helmholtz billows Mona Rahmani, University of British Columbia
2:00 Stability and mixing of shear layers forced by standing internal waves Alexis Kaminski, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
2:20 The effect of vortex pairing and Prandtl number on mixing in moderate Reynolds number stratified flows Wenjing Dong, Civil Engineering, The University of British Columbia
2:40 Understanding critical layers in stratified shear flow instabilities: A wave interaction perspective Jeff Carpenter, Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz Zentrum
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Double Diffusion

Chair: Rich Pawlowicz

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
1:20 Salt-fingering convection in the small diffusivity ratio limit Jin-Han Xie, University of California, Berkeley
1:40 Double-diffusive sedimentation Peter Burns, UC Santa Barbara
2:00 Double-diffusive lock-exchange gravity currents Nathan Konopliv, UC Santa Barbara
2:20 Fingering convection in double-diffusive, sediment-laden flows. Ahmad Alsinan, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:40 Spatial and Temporal characteristics of Double-Diffusive Layering in Relic Seawater Rich Pawlowicz, University of British Columbia
3:00 to 3:20

Coffee break

 
3:20 to 5:00

Afernoon Parallel Sessions II:

Particle-laden Flows

Internal Tides

Convection

 
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Particle-laden Flows

Chair: Bernhard Vowinckel

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
3:20 Particle transport due to trapped cores Gonçalo T. C. Gil, Stanford University
3:40 High-resolution simulations of down-slope turbidity currents into a stratifi ed saline ambient Raphael Ouillon, UC Santa Barbara
4:00 Experiments on Gravity Current Andrew Woods, BP Institute, University of Cambridge
4:20 Comparison of Averaging Methods for Interface Conductivities in One-dimensional Unsaturated Flow in Layered Soils Ruowen Liu, Arizona State University
4:40 Phase-resolved simulations of sediment erosion due to unsteady pressure drag Bernhard Vowinckel, Mechanical Engineering; UC Santa Barbara
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Internal Tides

Chair: Scott Wunsch

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
3:20 Modeling internal solitary wave development at the head of a submarine canyon Timothy Duda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
3:40 The demise of semidiurnal internal tides in the Equatorial Pacific: Incoherence or dissipation? Maarten Buijsman, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center
4:00 A process study of tidal mixing over rough topography Young (Paul) Yi, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
4:20 On the baroclinic response of supercritical topography to an oscillating tide: LES results Masoud Jalali, University of California San Diego
4:40 Internal Tide Energy Transfer by Nonlinear Refraction Scott Wunsch, The Johns Hopkins University
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Convection

Chair: Bishakhdatta Gayen

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
3:20 Effects of solar radiation on convective plumes and internal waves in ice covered lakes Damien Bouffard, EPFL, Switzerland
3:40 The Interaction of Convection & Internal Waves: A Natural Co-Dimension-Three Dynamics Larry Redekopp, AME Department, University of Southern California
4:00 Internal Wave Excitation by Turbulent Convection Daniel Lecoanet, UC-Berkeley
4:20 Convection in rotating flows with simultaneous imposition of radial and vertical temperature gradients Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
4:40 Effects of stratification on the dissolution of a vertical ice-face: effect of Rayleigh number Bishakhdatta Gayen, The Australian National University
5:15 to 6:15

Plenary: Stratified shear instabilities at low Peclet numbers

Chair: Geno Pawlak

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

Pascale Garaud, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UC Santa Cruz

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Wednesday, August 31
Time Session/Title Presenter: bold except where indicated by **
9:00 to 10:00

Plenary: Making a LIST and checking it twice: Length scales of Instabilities and Stratified Turbulence

Chair: Alberto Scotti

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

Colm-cille Caulfield, BP Institute. DAMTP, University of Cambridge
10:00 to 10:15

Coffee break

 
10:15 to 12:00

Morning Parallel Sessions:

James J. Riley Session

Gravity Currents

Internal Gravity Waves

 
10:15 to 12:00

Session: James J. Riley

Chair: M.-Pascale Lelong

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
10:20 The elephant in the room: how to define a rotation-aware Available Energy Alberto Scotti, Dept. of Marine Sciences, UNC, Chapel Hill
10:40 The atmospheric boundary layer in an Alpine valley during wintertime persistent temperature inversions Chantal Staquet, LEGI, University Grenoble Alpes, France
11:00 Tidal bores, turbulence and mixing above deep-ocean slopes Kraig Winters, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
11:20 Toward Direct Numerical Simulations of the Stratified Turbulence Inertial Range Steve de Bruyn Kops, University of Massachusetts Amherst
11:40 Lateral stirring in the ocean on scales of .1-10km: the role of internal waves M.-Pascale Lelong, NorthWest Research Associates
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Gravity Currents

Chair: Mohamad Nasr-Azadani

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
10:20 Intrusive gravity currents propagating into two-layer stratified ambients: Vorticity modeling Mohammad Amin Khodkar, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:40 On a Slippery Slope Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London
11:00 On gravity currents over changing topography Eletta Negretti, LEGI, CNRS UMR
11:20 Mixing efficiency in a run-down gravity current Graham Hughes, Imperial College London
11:40 Vorticity-based modeling of gravity currents penetrating into ambients with arbitrary shear and density stratification Mohamad Nasr-Azadani, University of California at Santa Barbara
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Internal Gravity Waves

Chair: Jenny Thomas

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
10:20 Non-Linear Internal Waves Pulse Cold Water Into the Shallow Inner-Shelf and Surfzone Gregory Sinnett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:40 The Influence of a Shoaling Internal Gravity Wave on a Dense Gravity Current Charlie Hogg, The Bob and Norma Street EFML, Stanford University
11:00 Nonlinear Interactions of Two Incident Internal Waves Tom Dobra, University of Bristol
11:20 Transmission of Internal Waves Generated by a Localized Surface Forcing Rohit Supekar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:40 Scattering and trapping of obliquely incident, low-mode internal tides off a continental shelf and slope James Lerczak, Oregon State University
12:00 to 1:20

Lunch

 
1:20 to 3:00

Afternoon Parallel Sessions I:

Simulation of Stratified Turbulence I

Low-Fequency Flow and Topography

Stability: Theory and Numerics

 
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Simulation of Stratified Turbulence I

Chair: Joseph Werne

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
1:20 Orientation of Vortical Structures in Turbulent Stratified Shear Flow Frank Jacobitz, University of San Diego
1:40 Turbulent Mixing in a Marginally-stable Stratified Shear Layer Hieu Pham, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD
2:00 Energetics aspects in Direct Numerical Simulations of a turbulent stratified flow: irreversible mixing Ernesto Horne, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Universite de Lyon
2:20 Instability, Evolution, and Mixing in Stratified Shear Flow as a Function of Richardson Number Joseph Werne, NorthWest Research Associates
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Low-frequency Flow and Topography

Chair: Trevor McDougall

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
1:20 A new theory for downslope windstorms and trapped mountain waves Francois Lott, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
1:40 The momentum balance of steady flow past an island Ruth Musgrave, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 Observations of high-frequency internal waves and strong turbulent mixing in a channel flow between two coral atolls Matt Rayson, University of Western Australia
2:20 Fortnightly modulation of deep mixing inside a Mid-Ocean Ridge fracture zone in the Brazil Basin Louis Clement, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
2:40 The Bottom-Intensification of Mixing Causes Large Abyssal Upwelling and Downwelling Trevor McDougall, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1:20 to 3:00

Session: Stability: Theory and Numerics

Chair: Kevin Chen

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
1:20 Coherent structures in stably stratified plane Couette flow Daniel Olvera, University of Bristol
1:40 Taylor-Caulfield Instabilities in a Layered Stratified Shear Flow Giordano Ponetti, Università di Catania - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
2:00 Stability and nonlinear dynamics of a settling fresh water particle laden fluid below a salt water layer Cristian Reyes, Department of Mining Engineering, Universidad de Chile
2:20 Surprising behaviour in the large-wavelength approximation of turbulent flow past a wavy bottom Paolo Luchini, Universitá di Salerno
2:40 The sensitivity of stratified flow stability to base flow modifications Kevin Chen, University of Southern California, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
3:00 to 3:20

Coffee break

 
3:20 to 5:00

Afternoon Parallel Sessions II:

Simulation of Stratified Turbulence II

Stratified Boundary Layers

Theory

 
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Simulation of Stratified Turbulence II

Chair: Peter Diamessis

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
3:20 A numerical study of axisymmetric flow regimes in a rotating annulus with local convective forcing Peter Read, University of Oxford, UK
3:40 Turbulence, mixing and Prandtl number effects in stratified plane Couette flows Qi Zhou, University of Cambridge
4:00 Temperature front formation in stably stratified turbulence Yoshifumi Kimura, Nagoya University
4:20 Dynamics of flow over a sphere at Re = 3700 in moderate to highly stratified environments. Anikesh Pal, UCSD
4:40 Reynolds number effects in stratified turbulent wakes Peter Diamessis, Cornell University
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Stratified Boundary Layers

Chair: Craig Stevens

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
3:20 Temperature fronts and vortical structures in turbulent stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers Peter Sullivan, National Center for Atmospheric Research
3:40 Observations and processes of persistent near-bottom offshore flow at the shelfbreak off South Carolina, USA Harvey Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:00 On the synergy between numerics and subgrid scale modeling in LES of stratified flows: Grid convergence of a stratocumulus-topped boundary layer Georgios Matheou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
4:20 Quantification of highly unsteady and inhomogeneous stratified turbulence in breaking internal waves on slopes Robert Arthur, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
4:40 Thorpe Scales in the “Largest” Oceanic Reynolds Number Flow (but still stratified) on the Planet Craig Stevens, National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand and University of Auckland, New Zealand
3:20 to 5:00

Session: Theory

Chair: Vladimir Zeitlin

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
3:20 Radiation of Internal Waves by Symmetrically Unstable Fronts Nicolas Grisouard, University of Toronto
3:40 Internal wave focusing by annular forcing Bruno Voisin, LEGI, CNRS / Université Grenoble Alpes
4:00 Thermohaline layering in dynamically and diffusively stable shear flows Timour Radko, Naval Postgraduate School
4:20 Spectral link for the mean velocity profile in the atmospheric boundary layer Dongrong Zhang, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
4:40 Understanding inertial instability on the f-plane with complete Coriolis force Vladimir Zeitlin, Laboratory of Dynamical Meteorology, Ecole Normale Superieure and University P. and M. Curie, Paris, France
6:00 to 10:00

Banquet

Location: Crown Room

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Thursday, September 1
Time Session/Title Presenter: bold except where indicated by **
9:00 to 10:00

Plenary: Flows Induced by 1D, 2D and 3D internal gravity wavepackets

Chair: Triantaphylios Akylas

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
10:00 to 10:15

Coffee break

 
10:15 to 12:00

Morning Parallel Sessions:

Larry G. Redekopp Session

Simulation of Stratified Turbulence III

Process Studies in the Ocean and Atmosphere

 
10:15 to 12:00

Session: Larry G Redekopp

Chair: Geoffrey Spedding

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
10:20 Transient and Global Instabilities of Internal Solitary Waves Pierre-Yves Passiggia, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
10:40 Large eddy simulations of turbulence under internal solitary waves of depression Takahiro Sakai, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California
11:00 Internal Solitary Wave-Induced Bed Failure in a Stratified Water Column Gustavo Rivera-Rosario, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell
11:20 Mode-2 Internal Solitary Wave Velocity Fields and the Effects of Shear Kenneth Kalumuck, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11:40 Oblique nonlinear interaction of internal solitary-like waves in the Andaman Sea Kenji Shimizu, CSIRO
10:15 to 12:00

Session: Simulation of Stratified Turbulence III

Chair: Bill Smyth

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
10:20 A multiscale point of view on the dynamics of stably stratified turbulence associated with geostrophic modes: simulations and model Fabien Godeferd, LMFA, CNRS, Université de Lyon
10:40 Acceleration-driven variable-density turbulent flow Ilana Gat, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
11:00 Turbulent mixing in strongly stratified shear flows Hesam Salehipour, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
11:20 Pulsating stratified turbulence in the upper equatorial oceans Bill Smyth, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State
10:20 to 12:00

Session: Process Sudies in the Ocean and Atmosphere

Chair: Ruth Musgrave

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
10:20 The dissolution of polar ice into a stratified ocean Craig McConnochie, RSES, The Australian National University
10:40 Turbulent Dissipation Rates, Mixing, and Heat Fluxes in the Canadian Arctic from Glider-based Microstructure Measurements Benjamin Scheifele, University of British Columbia
11:00 The Dynamics of Submesoscale Eddies in the Coastal Ocean Burkard Baschek, Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum
11:20 On the control of buoyancy-driven devices in stratified, uncertain flowfields Gianluca Meneghello, Flow Control Lab, UC San Diego
11:40 Mode-2 internal waves: observations in the non-tidal sea Elizaveta Khimchenko, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS
12:00 to 1:20

Lunch

 
1:20 to 3:20

Afternoon Parallel Sessions:

Internal Waves in a Variable Medium

Lakes and Rivers

Stratified Wakes and Plumes

 
1:20 to 3:20

Session: Internal Waves in a Variable Medium

Chair: Kevin Lamb

Location: Upper Grande Hall Left

 
1:20 Internal-Gravity wave propagation in a range-dependent waveguide with forcing at the bottom Noe Lahaye, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
1:40 The relative importance of transient wave-mean-flow interactions and turbulent wave breaking in atmospheric gravity-wave parameterizations Gergely Bölöni, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2:00 An experimental investigation of evanescent wave propagation through a turning depth Allison Lee, Brigham Young University
2:20 Instability Associated Baroclinic Critical Layers in Rotating Stratified Shear Flow Chen Wang, University of British Columbia
2:40 The Three-Dimensional Propagation of Tsunami-Generated Acoustic-Gravity Waves in the Atmosphere Yue Wu, University of California San Diego
3:00 Tide-Topography Interactions: Asymmetries in Internal Wave Generation due to Surface Trapped Currents Kevin Lamb, University of Waterloo
1:20 to 3:20

Session: Lakes and Rivers

Chair: Leon Boegman

Location: Upper Grande Hall Center

 
1:20 Thermobaric stratification and circulation in very deep freshwater lakes Bertram Boehrer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
1:40 Modeling the Oxygen depletion within stratified bottom boundary layers of lakes Aidin Jabbari, Civil Engineering, Queen’s University
2:00 Measurement of vertical oxygen flux in lakes from microstructure casts Nader Nakhaei, Civil Engineering, Queen’s University
2:20 Characteristics of Salt Water Movement in Mouth of River Iwaki Mikio Sasaki, Civil Engineering, Hachinohe Institute of Technology
2:40 Investigating the effect of the Coriolis force on internal wave dynamics and flushing of a coastal embayment Bryan Flood, University of Toronto
3:00 1DV model of wind-generated internal seiches Rob Uittenbogaard, Deltares, Delft, The Netherlands
1:20 to 3:20

Session: Stratified Wakes and Plumes

Chair: Joe O'Callaghan

Location: Upper Grande Hall Right

 
1:20 Porous media plumes: transient filling box solutions Ali Moradi, University of Alberta
1:40 Turbulent Scales Observed in a Buoyant River Plume Driven by a Highly Variable Flow Rebecca Adam McPherson, University of Auckland
2:00 Dynamics of a buoyant plume in linearly stratified environment using simultaneous PIV-PLIF Harish N Mirajkar, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
2:20 Experiments and simulations of low Re sphere wakes with and without stratification Xinjiang Xiang, University of Southern California
2:40 Large eddy simulation of buoyant jet in shallow water Akihiko Nakayama, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
3:00 Quasi-continuous 2-D observations of inner-shelf internal bore breaking and run-up from a novel fiber topic temperature sensing system Andrew J. Lucas, SIO, UCSD

 

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