Session A14: Instabilities, Turbulence and Nonlinear Flows

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:00AM - 8:12AM

A14.00001: Search for the ``ultimate state" in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection for Rayleigh numbers up to $4\times 10^{13}$ and Prandtl numbers near 0.8.
Guenter Ahlers , Denis Funfschilling , Eberhard Bodenschatz

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:12AM - 8:24AM

A14.00002: Large-scale circulation and Nusselt number in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection.
Jin-Qiang Zhong , Richard Stevens , Herman Clercx , Detlef Lohse , Guenter Ahlers

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:24AM - 8:36AM

A14.00003: Geometry of turbulence: a stroll through 61,506 dimensions
Predrag Cvitanovic , John F. Gibson , Jonathan Halcrow

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:36AM - 8:48AM

A14.00004: Lagrangian and Eulerian Turbulence: intermittency and Universality
Luca Biferale

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:48AM - 9:00AM

A14.00005: Large-eddy simulation of swirling reacting flows
Marcel Ilie

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:00AM - 9:12AM

A14.00006: Methods to Approach Velocity Data Reduction and Their Effects on Conformation Statistics in Viscoelastic Turbulent Channel Flows
Gaurab Samanta , Antony Beris , Robert Handler , Kostas Housiadas

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A14.00007: Study of Influence of Rapid Pressure in MHD Turbulence
Saikishan Suryanarayanan , Aarthi Sekaran

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A14.00008: Anisotropic Particles in Fluid Flow
Monica Kishore , Nicholas T. Ouellette , Jerry Gollub

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A14.00009: Statistics of preferential particle concentration in free-surface
Jason Larkin , Walter Goldburg , Mahesh Bandi

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A14.00010: Vortex Street behind an Oscillating Wire on a Soap Film
Aaron Meyer , Ildoo Kim , X.L. Wu

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A14.00011: An Anomalous Behavior in Vortex Shedding in a Flowing Soap Film
ILDOO KIM , X.L. Wu

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A14.00012: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Nonlinear Optics
Shu Jia , Jason W. Fleischer

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A14.00013: Dispersive shock waves with negative pressure
Wenjie Wan , Dmitri Dylov , Christopher Barsi , Jason Fleischer

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A14.00014: Convective instability in pipe flow through a sudden expansion
James Seddon

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