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)

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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

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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

PhD studentship in Applied Mathematics (Fluid Dynamics) at Coventry University (UK)

Posted by on 18 March 2012 Comments Off on PhD studentship in Applied Mathematics (Fluid Dynamics) at Coventry University (UK)

(from Sergei Molokov, Coventry)

Coventry University invites applications for a 3.5-year PhD Industrial CASE studentship in Applied Mathematics (Fluid Dynamics). The studentship is co-funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/). The work, to be performed in collaboration with Culham and with Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany, http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/tfd/ ), involves Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent flow in rectangular ducts in the presence of a strong magnetic field with reference to liquid metal blankets for fusion reactors.

Candidates must be EU nationals holding a BSc degree in Mathematics, Physics or a related discipline (or those who will have obtained the degree by September 2012). Exceptional overseas students are also encouraged to apply.

The maintenance grant is £13,260 p.a. tax free. The starting date must be not later than the end of September, 2012.

For an informal discussion please contact Prof Sergei Molokov at s.molokov(at)coventry.ac.uk
(http://nestor2.coventry.ac.uk/research/appmath/staff/molokov.php).

Please submit an application form, a detailed CV, two references (one of which must be academic) and a covering letter to research-apps.pg(at)coventry.ac.uk.

The deadline for applications is 13th April, 2012. However, the position will remain open
until the suitable candidate is found.

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Proposals for Magnet Time at LNCMI are open from April 15 to May 15, 2012

Posted by on 29 February 2012 Comments Off on Proposals for Magnet Time at LNCMI are open from April 15 to May 15, 2012

The Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI), is one of the large scale facilities of the CNRS, it is part of the EuroMagNet consortium (Grenoble & Nijmegen for DC magnetic field, Toulouse & Dresden for pulsed magnetic field)
The LNCMI delivers to researchers each year 4000 hours of continuous (DC) high magnetic field up to 35 Teslas and 80 Teslas with pulsed field.The high field facility is open mainly to users from 27 countries of the European Union and from the associated states (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). Researches from other countries can also perform their experiments at LNCMI, but they are supposed to cover themselves their travel and living expenses. To perform experiments under high magnetic field, one has to submit a proposal to the programm Comittee that meets twice a year. During their stay in Grenoble, users can rely on the scientific, technical and administrative assistance of LNCMI staff. In particular they are helped by a “local contact”, a resident scientist or engineer.Call for the submission of proposals for magnet time allocation will be open from April 15th, 2012 to May 15th, 2012.
The application form will be available on EuroMagNET’s ‘ web site:

http://www.hfml.ru.nl/EuroMagNET2/proposals.shtml

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francois.debray(at)lncmi.cnrs.fr
Tel : 33 (0) 476 88 12 44 Fax : 33 (0) 456 38 70 37
http://lncmi.cnrs.fr/

Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Intenses
CNRS LNCMI site de Grenoble
25, rue des Martyrs BP.166
38042 Grenoble CEDEX 9, FRANCE