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Session H9: Instabilities and Fluid Dynamics

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Yale University
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7


Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

H9.00001: Low Frequency Oscillations in the Upper Atmosphere
Sudip Sen

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

H9.00002: Capillary-controlled instability in immiscible, parallel flow in porous media
Thomas Ramstad , Alex Hansen

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

H9.00003: Stability of multi-layer Hele-Shaw flows with and without diffusion
Prabir Daripa

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

H9.00004: Meandering instability of a rivulet on a partially wetting incline
Adrian Daerr , Laurent Limat

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

H9.00005: A quasi 2-D molecular dynamics study of the initiation and evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
Kyle Caspersen , Robert Rudd , David Richards , Jim Glosli , John Gunnels , Fredrick Streitz

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

H9.00006: A fully 3-D molecular dynamics study of the initiation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
Robert E. Rudd , K.J. Caspersen , D.F. Richards , J.N. Glosli , J.A. Gunnels , F.H. Streitz

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

H9.00007: Bubble Pinch-off at High Pressures
J.C. Burton , P. Taborek

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

H9.00008: First order phase transition in the height of a meniscus in a tapered capillary
Michael Pettersen , Etienne Rolley

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

H9.00009: Luminescence from Laser-Induced Bubbles in Water-Glycerol Mixtures: Effect of Viscosity
Erin Englert , Allison McCarn , Gary A. Williams

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

H9.00010: Hysteretic and Chaotic Dynamics of Viscous Drops in Creeping Flows with Rotation
Yuan-Nan Young , Jerzy Blawzdziewicz , Vittorio Cristini , Roy Goodman

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

H9.00011: A Temporal Period Doubling Route to Spatiotemporal Chaos in a System of Amplitude Equations for the Nematic Electroconvection
Iuliana Oprea , Gerhard Dangelmayr

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

H9.00012: Angular momentum transport in complex fluids
Xiaoyu Zheng , Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Michael Shelley

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
10:24AM - 10:36AM

H9.00013: Particle Dynamics in Bi-Disperse Liquid Fluidized Beds
Phil Segre , Gary L. Hunter , James Davidheiser , Elizabeth Baker

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
10:36AM - 10:48AM

H9.00014: Polygonal hydraulic jump on microtextured surfaces
Emilie Dressaire , Laurent Courbin , Jerome Crest , Howard A. Stone

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
10:48AM - 11:00AM

H9.00015: Enstrophy-constrained stability analysis of beta-plane Kolmogorov flow with drag
Yue-Kin Tsang , William Young

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