Proceedings Volume 2011
2011 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
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Shear Turbulence: Onset and Structure
Norman Lebovitz and Philip Morrison, Directors
Fabian Waleffe and Richard Kerswell, Principal Lecturers
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Lecture Notes taken by GFD Fellows
Principal Lectures
Preface (pdf)
Lecture 1 (pdf)
Shear Turbulence: Onset and Structure
Lecture 2 (pdf)
Overview of Turbulent Shear Flows
Lecture 3 (pdf)
Stability of Shear Flow
Lecture 4 (pdf)
Stability of Shear Flow - Part 2
Lecture 5 (pdf)
Feedback on Vertical Velocity. Rotation, Convection, Self-Sustaining Process
Lecture 6 (pdf)
Exact Coherent States
Lecture 7 (pdf)
Transition Scenarios: Normality vs Non-Normality
Lecture 8 (pdf)
Edge Tracking - Walking the Tightrope
Lecture 9 (pdf)
Triggering Transitions - Towards Minimal Seeds
Lecture 10 (pdf)
Turbulence: Transient or Sustained?
Fellows' Reports
Constraints on Low-Order Models: The Cost of Simplicity (pdf)
Martín Hoecker-Martínez, Oregon State University
On One-Fluid MHD Models with Electron Inertia (pdf)
Keiji Kimura, Kyoto University
Traversing the Edge: A Study of Turbulent Decay (pdf)
Matthew Chantry, University of Bristol
A Low Dimensional Model for Shear Turbulence in Plane Poiseuille Flow: An Example to Understand the Edge (pdf)
Giulio Mariotti, Boston University
Upstream Basin Circulation of Rotating, Hydraulically Controlled Flows (pdf)
Adele Morrison, Australian National University
Islands in Locally Forced Basin Circulations (pdf)
Sam Potter, Princeton University
Stability Analysis of Two-Layer Immiscible Viscous in an Inclined Closed Tube (pdf)
Zhan Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Elliptic vortex patches: coasts and chaos (pdf)
Andrew Crosby, Cambridge University
On Brownian Motion in a Fluid with a Plane Boundary (pdf)
Chao Ma, University of Colorado, Boulder
Localized Solutions in Plane Couette Flow: A Continuation Study (pdf)
John Platt, Harvard University
Maximizing the Heat Flux in Steady Unicellular Porous Media Convection (pdf)
Lindsey Corson, University of Strathclyde