Please submit a brief abstract to F.Nicolleau@sheffield.ac.uk preferably in latex but other formats will be fine as well.

Conference programme & preliminary talks - TBC

• Michael Bestehorn, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus – Senftenberg, Germany
  Dimension-Reduced Model For One- And Two-Layer Systems

• Bernard Collet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris, France
  TBA
• Amirul Khan, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
  TBA
• Yi Li, School of Mathematics and Statistics, SFMG, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  Constructing inhomogeneous non-Gaussian turbulent fields with the assistance of optimization techniques
• Yanchen Hu, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, University of Sheffield, UK
  TBA
• Rachid Makhloufi, Université de Caen - ESIX, Cherbourg, France
  TBA
• Thomas Michelitsch, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris, France
  TBA
• Jacob Marlow & Franck Nicolleau, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, University of Sheffield, UK
  Wake Characterisation of 3-Dimensional Multiscale Porous Obstacles
• Andrzej Nowakowski, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, University of Sheffield, UK
  TBA
• Vinh Vu, Department of Applied Mathematics, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, University of Sheffield, UK
  Geometric analysis and parameterisation of array of obstacles undergoing high Reynolds number flows
• Alejandro Perez Riascos, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Mariana, San Juan de Pasto, Columbia -
  TBA

Audience:

This conference on synthetic turbulence co-organised by ERCOFTAC/SIG 42 and SIG14 is open to anyone interested in flow, heat and mass transfer modelling and/or "synthetic turbulence" including (but not restricted to) Kinematic Simulation, (KS hereinafter).More fundamental talks on particle dispersion in turbulent flows or heat and mass transfer are also welcome.

Motivation:

Synthetic models are widely used in various domains, including Lagrangian aspects in turbulence mixing/stirring, particle dispersion/clustering (KS). Flow realisations with complete spatial, and sometime spatio-temporal, dependency, are generated via superposition of random modes (mostly spatial, and  sometime  spatial  and  temporal, Fourier modes), with prescribed constraints such  as:  strict incompressibility (divergence-free velocity field at each point), high Reynolds energy spectrum, Recent improvements consisted in incorporating optimisation methods used in mathematics to generate synthetic fields.However, the absence of "sweeping effects" in present conventional KS versions is identified as a major drawback in very different applications: inertial particle clustering as well as in aeroacoustics. Nevertheless, this issue was addressed in some reference papers, and merits to be revisited in the light of new studies in progress. A further goal of this conference is to bring people from different disciplines together. In particular recent emerging fractal approaches and field reconstruction methods have the potential to provide the framework for the construction of new synthetic turbulent flows.This workshop will also focus on potential application to flow through complex porous media and multiphase flows. Interdisciplinary contributors are especially invited to contribute.

A non-exhaustive list of related topics can be proposed as follows:

Synthetic models of turbulence (KS and others),
Lagrangian aspects of turbulence,
Vortex dynamics and structure formation,
Particle dispersion/clustering,
Muliphase multicomponent flows,
Heat and mass transfer in complex flows (turbulence, Multiphase multicomponent flows)
Turbulent flows and multiscale (fractal) shapes,
Flow in porous media.

Participants (preliminary):

Michael Bestehorn, Lehtstuhl für Theoretische Physik Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus, Germany
Bernard Collet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris, France
Robertus Erdelyi, Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC/SoMaS), University of Sheffield, UK
Yanchen Hu, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, University of Sheffield, UK
Wernher Brevis, School of Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Amirul Khan, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
Yi Li, School of Mathematics and Statistics (SoMaS), University of Sheffield, UK
Thomas Michelitsch, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris, France
Franck Nicolleau, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, UK
Andrzej Nowakowski, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, UK
Alejandro Perez Riascos, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Mariana, San Juan de Pasto, Columbia
Vinh Vu, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, UK