Monthly Archives: April 2012

July 8-11, 2013: BIFD2013: Instabilities and Bifurcations in Fluid Mechanics 2013 (Haifa, Israel)

Posted by on 30 April 2012 Comments Off on July 8-11, 2013: BIFD2013: Instabilities and Bifurcations in Fluid Mechanics 2013 (Haifa, Israel)

Dear Colleague

The Fifth International Symposium “Instabilities and Bifurcations in Fluid Mechanics” will be held on July 8-11, 2013 at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Traditional topics, detailed in the Scope of Symposium, are instabilities and bifurcations in shear, rotating and convective flows; experimental, theoretical and numerical methods for studying instabilities and bifurcations; bifurcations and instabilities in various technological applications. Attached please find the scope of the symposium.

More information is available on the symposium web site http://BIFD2013/technion.ac.il

We invite you to submit your original contribution and to attend this symposium. Abstracts of up to 500 words on any of the topics covered by the symposium should be submitted by January 15, 2013.

The abstracts should be sent to the symposium organizers by e-mail bifd2013(@)technion.ac.il . Should you prefer to schedule your talk with one of the special sessions listed below, please send your abstract directly to the session organizer/s with a copy to the symposium organizers at bifd2013(@)technion.ac.il and state your preference explicitly in the body of your email message.

Further details about the conference are given below.

Invited speakers (with tentative titles of their lectures):

Professor Gustav Amber, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
“Surface tension driven instabilities and bifurcations”

Professor Jose Eduardo Wesfreid, PMMH, ESPCI, Paris, France
“Transient states in the transition to turbulence in channels”

Professor Roger Ohayon, CNAM, LMSSC, Paris, France: TBA

Special sessions

Instabilities in films and drops. Organizer Alex Oron, Technion, Israel

Instabilities in biofluid flows. Organizer Pinhas Bar-Yoseph, Technion, Israel

Bifurcation and instabilities in technological applications. Organizer Alexander Gelfgat, Tel Aviv Univ, Israel

Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. Organizer Oleg Zikanov, University of Michigan, USA

Instabilities in geophysical flows. Organizer Nili Harnik, Tel Aviv Univ, Israel

Localised states in fluids. Organizer Isabel Mercader, UPC, Spain

Subcritical transition in shear flows. Organizers Alessandro Bottaro, Univ of Genova, Italy and Yohann Duguet, LIMSI, France

Instabilities in astrophysical flows. Organizer Michael Mond, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Computational methods for bifurcation and instability analysis. Organizers Henk Dijkstra (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands) and Fred Wubs (Univ of Groningen, The Netherlands).
Fluid-Structure Interaction. Organizers Oded Gottlieb (Technion, Israel) and Andrei Metrikine (TU- Delft, The Netherlands).
Colleagues who are willing to organize other special sessions in their field of expertise are welcome to contact one of co-chairpersons or just write us via the conference e-mail address.

Venue, accommodation and registration

The symposium will take place at the Technion (Haifa, Israel) campus. Details can be found at http://www.technion.ac.il. Limited accommodation is available on campus, a short walk from the venue for the meeting.

Sincerely,
Co-Chairpersons:
Prof. Pinhas Z. Bar-Yoseph (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; e-mail: merbygr(@)technion.ac.il)
Prof. Morten Brøns (Technical University of Denmark; e-mail: M.Brons(@)mat.dtu.dk)
Prof. Alexander Gelfgat (Tel Aviv University; e-mail: gelfgat(@)eng.tau.ac.il)
Prof. Alexander Oron (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; e-mail: meroron(@)technion.ac.il)

Ph.D. FELLOWSHIP ON CONVECTION IN THE LIQUID CORE OF THE EARTH AT COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (UK)

Posted by on 28 April 2012 Comments Off on Ph.D. FELLOWSHIP ON CONVECTION IN THE LIQUID CORE OF THE EARTH AT COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (UK)

A Ph.D. position in experimental fluid mechanics is offered at Coventry University (UK). The project is aimed at reproducing convection under a magnetic field in the so called “tangent cylinder” region of the Earth’s liquid core, in controlled laboratory conditions. This problem of fundamental research is of crucial importance in understanding both the morphology and the dynamics of the Earth’s magnetic field. The successful completion of the project will help explain the presence of weak and reversed magnetic flux spots in the polar regions.

The student will be in charge of conducting the experimental project under the joint supervision of Alban Pothérat (http://nestor2.coventry.ac.uk/research/appmath/staff/potherat/potherat.php) and Binod Sreenivasan (http://home.iitk.ac.in/~bsreeni/index.html). He/she will be assisted by a Development Officer and by the university’s mechanical and electrical workshops and their staff. He/she will build a rig where the convective flow is generated in an electrically conducting fluid (an electrolyte/liquid metal) on a rotating table, placed inside the bore of Coventry’s new 8T superconducting magnet. He/she will also have to set up PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) and dye-based flow visualisation techniques. He/she will then perform a series of experiments in order to reproduce convective structures that would help explain the main features of the observed geomagnetic field.

Applicants must hold a Masters degree or equivalent with a solid background in fluid mechanics and be specially motivated by the conduct of highly technical projects. The successful candidate will receive a tax-free fellowship of approximately £13k per annum. The project is funded by a grant from the prestigious Leverhulme Trust (http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk).

A good command of English is essential. To apply, please send a full CV with up-to-date academic records to Alban Pothérat, Coventry University (alban.potherat(at)coventry.ac.uk). Please note that this position is open to EU citizens only. For informal inquiries, contact Alban Pothérat (+44 (0) 2476 88 88 65) or Binod Sreenivasan (bsreeni(at)iitk.ac.in).

New Book

Posted by on 27 April 2012 Comments Off on New Book

A Voyage through Turbulence (CUP., Eds. P.Davidson, Y.Kaneda, H.K.Moffatt, & K.Sreenivasan) has recently been published. See

http://www.cambridge.org

Thanks for producing the Newsletter;  its greatly appreciated!

Keith Moffatt