The talks will take place in the Manfred Eigen Lecture Hall at MPI.
All time slots include 5 minutes for questions and change over to the next speaker.

Programme

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Keynote lectures Printable pdf version

7:30 – 8:00 Bus transfer

8:00 – 8:45 Registration

8:45 – 9:15 Opening

Lord Rayleigh Session, Chair: Detlef Lohse

9:15 – 9:55 Keynote lecture by Xiaozhou He, D.P.M. van Gils, E. Bodenschatz, G. Ahlers
Temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
at high Rayleigh numbers

9:55 – 10:20 Eberhard Bodenschatz
The transition to the ultimate regime

10:20 – 10:45 Guenter Ahlers, P. Wei, S. Weiss
Many Kinds of Turbulence!

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

Henri Claude Bénard Session, Chair: Penger Tong

11:15 – 11:40 Jörg Schumacher, V. Bandaru, A. Kholchynska, K. Padberg-Gehle, J.D. Scheel
Skin friction field and plume formation in turbulent convection

11:40 – 12:05 Ronald du Puits, C. Resagk, C. Willert
The evolution of the boundary layer in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in air

12:05 – 12:30 Baburaj A. Puthenveettil, V. Koothur
Boundary layer velocity field in turbulent convection

12:30 – 12:45 Mohammad Emran, J. Schumacher
Large-scale patterns in extended convection cells

12:45 – 13:00 Mikhail Ovsyannikov, D. Krasnov, M.S. Emran, J. Schumacher
Joint buoyancy and pressure gradient effects in a horizontal boundary layer flow

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Ludwig Prandtl Session, Chair: Guenter Ahlers

14:00 – 14:40 Keynote lecture by Siegfried Großmann, D. Lohse, and C. Sun
The law of the wall – A challenge for the Euler-Navier-Stokes equations

14:40 – 15:05 Denis Funfschilling, G. Castanet, N. Rimbert
Plumes visualization in a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell

15:05 – 15:20 Klaus Petschel, S. Stellmach, M. Wilczek, J. Lülff, U. Hansen
Kinetic Energy Transport in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break

Robert Harry Kraichnan Session, Chair: Ke-Qing Xia

15:50 – 16:15 Francesca Chillà
Effect of roughness on Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

16:15 – 16:30 Julien Salort, R. Kaiser, O. Liot, R. du Puits, F. Chillà
Roughness-induced boundary layer structure in turbulent RBC

16:30 – 16:45 Yi-Chao Xie, K.-Q. Xia
Observation of a 1/2 scaling in turbulent thermal convection in water

16:45 – 17:10 Robert M. Kerr
Are convective boundary layers turbulent?

17:10 – 17:35 Sahadev Pradhan, V. Kumaran
Analytical and numerical modeling of strongly rotating rarefied gas flows

17:35 – 20:00 Poster session & reception

Susanne Horn, O. Shishkina
Toroidal and poloidal energy in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Olga Shishkina, S. Horn, S. Wagner, E.S.C. Ching
Thermal boundary layer equation for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Sebastian Wagner, O. Shishkina
DNS of turbulent thermal convection influenced by obstacles

Holly L. Capelo, Haitao Xu, Michiel Lambrechts, Anders Johansen, Eberhard Bodenschatz
Studies of gas-particle interaction: Implications for the streaming instability in protoplanetary disks

G.S. Gunasegarane, Baburaj A. Puthenveettil
Dynamics of plumes on horizontal surfaces in turbulent convection

G.S. Gunasegarane, Baburaj A. Puthenveettil
Effect of shear on plume structure and flux scaling

Christian Kästner, C. Resagk
Large scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection at large aspect ratio

Vera Musilová, P. Urban, T. Králík, L. Skrbek
Reynolds number scaling in aspect ratio one cryogenic Rayleigh-Bénard convection experiment

Innocent Mutabazi, N. Legrand, L. Danaila, V. Moureau, A. Prigent
Transition to turbulence in a vertical Couette-Taylor flow with a radial temperature gradient

M. Gisselbrecht, Emmanuel Plaut
K-epsilon model of turbulent pipe flow: towards an ultimate regime?

Daniel Schmeling, J. Bosbach, C. Wagner
Dynamics of thermal plumes in turbulent mixed convection studied with combined Particle Image Thermometry and Velocimetry

Pavel Urban, T. Králík, V. Musilová, L. Skrbek
Experimental investigation of Rayleigh-Bénard convection
in a cylindrical aspect ratio two geometry

20:00 – 20:30 Bus transfer

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Keynote lectures Printable pdf version

8:30 – 9:00 Bus transfer

Theodore von Kármán Session, Chair: Ladislav Skrbek

9:00 – 9:40 Keynote lecture by Bérengère Dubrulle, F. Daviaud, B. St-Michel, D. Faranda,
S. Thalabard, D. Kuzzay, F. Ravelet, Y. Sato
What can the study of von Karman flow teach us about Rayleigh-Bénard convection?

9:40 – 10:05 Penger Tong, X. He, X.-D. Shang
Test of the anomalous scaling of passive temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with spatial inhomogeneity

10:05 – 10:30 S. Chibbaro, Francesco Zonta
Lagrangian study of Rayleigh-Bénard convection

10:30 – 10:45 Abhishek Kumar, A.G. Chatterjee, M.K. Verma
Energy Spectrum of Buoyancy-Induced Turbulence

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius Session, Chair: Francesca Chillà

11:15 – 11:55 Keynote lecture by Quan Zhou
Heat Transport Enhancement in Turbulent Thermal Convection

11:55 – 12:20 Ke-Qing Xia, K.-L. Chong, M. Kaczorowski, S.-D. Huang
Universal heat transport in plume-controlled Rayleigh-Bénard convection

12:20 – 12:45 S.-Q. Zhou, S.-X. Guo, X.-R. Cen, Ling Qu, Y.-Z. Lu, L. Sun, X.-D. Shang
The effect of cell tilting on turbulent thermal convection in a rectangular cell

12:45 – 13:00 Kai-Leong Chong, M. Kaczorowski, K.-Q. Xia
Influence of geometrical confinement on small-scale properties in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Anton Oberbeck Session, Chair: Denis Funfschilling

14:00 – 14:25 Sasa Kenjeres, R. Zinsmeester, L. Pyrda, E. Fornalik-Wajs, J.S. Szmyd
The wall-heat transfer control in turbulent thermomagnetic convection

14:25 – 14:50 Eric Brown
Modeling dynamics of the large-scale circulation

14:50 – 15:05 Dandan Ji, K. Bai, E. Brown
The oscillation modes of large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
in a cubic container

15:05 – 15:20 K. Bai, D. Ji, Eric Brown
Large-scale-circulation dynamics of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a cubic container

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break

Joseph Valentin Boussinesq Session, Chair: Jörg Schumacher

15:50 – 16:05 Philip Sakievich, R. Adrian, Y. Peet
Scales and Dynamics of Turbulent Heat Transport in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

16:05 – 16:20 Berengere Podvin, A. Sergent
POD analysis of a square Rayleigh-Bénard cell: wind reversal dynamics

16:20 – 16:35 Kim M.J. Alards, R.P.J. Kunnen, F. Toschi, H.J.H. Clercx
Lagrangian analysis of Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence

16:35 – 16:50 Andres Castillo-Castellanos, M. Rossi, A. Sergent
Flow reversals in Rayleigh-Bénard with modified boundary conditions

17:00 – 17:30 Bus transfer

17:30 – 19:00 Guided city tour

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Keynote lectures Printable pdf version

8:30 – 9:00 Bus transfer

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Session, Chair: Ulrich Hansen

9:00 – 9:40 Keynote lecture by Chao Sun, S.G. Huisman, R.C.A. van der Veen, D.P.M. van Gils,
G.W. Bruggert, D. Lohse
High Reynolds number Taylor-Couette turbulence: an experimental investigation

9:40 – 10:05 Detlef Lohse
The phase space of turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

10:05 – 10:20 Xiaojue Zhu, R. Ostilla-Mónico, R. Verzicco, D. Lohse
Enhanced angular velocity transport by grooved walls in Taylor-Couette turbulence

10:20 – 10:45 Innocent Mutabazi, Y. Bai, O. Crumeyrolle
Viscoelastic Taylor-Couette flow in Keplerian regime and analogy with MRI

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby Session, Chair: Richard J. A. M. Stevens

11:15 – 11:55 Keynote lecture by Rudie P.J. Kunnen
Flow structure in turbulent rotating convection: experiments and simulations

11:55 – 12:20 Stephan Weiss, P. Wei, G. Ahlers
How does the Prandtl number influence the heat-transport enhancement
in turbulent RBC under rotation?

12:20 – 12:45 Jin-Qiang Zhong, H.-M. Li
Retrograde rotation of the large-scale flow in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
with high Rossby number

12:45 – 13:00 Dennis P.M. van Gils, X. He, G. Ahlers, E. Bodenschatz
The Göttingen rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection facility

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Vagn Walfrid Ekman Session, Chair: Stephan Weiss

14:00 – 14:40 Keynote lecture by Robert E. Ecke
Heat Transport in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

14:40 – 15:05 Stephan Stellmach, M. Lischper, K. Julien, G. Vasil, J. S. Cheng, A. Ribeiro, E. M. King, J. M. Aurnou
Approaching the Asymptotic Regime of Rapidly Rotating Convection:
Boundary Layers vs Interior Dynamics

15:05 – 15:20 Pranav Joshi, R.P.J. Kunnen, H.J.H Clercx
Tuning transitions in turbulent rotating convection

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis Session, Chair: Ronald du Puits

15:50 – 16:05 Hadi Rajaei, R.P.J. Kunnen, H.J.H Clercx
Lagrangian statistics in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

16:05 – 16:20 Olivier Liot, J. Salort, M. Bourgoin, F. Chillà
Experimental Lagrangian investigation in turbulent convection

16:20 – 16:35 Max Körner, C. Resagk, A. Thess
Archimedes number and Rayleigh number dependence of large-scale circulation
in turbulent mixed convection

16:35 – 16:50 Robert Kaiser, R. du Puits
Collapse of the global flow structure

16:50 – 17:00 Holger Nobach
EuHIT - European High-Performance Infrastructures in Turbulence

17:00 – 18:00 Bus transfer

18:00 – 22:00 Conference dinner

22:00 – 22:30 Bus transfer

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Keynote lectures Printable pdf version

8:30 – 9:00 Bus transfer

Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров Session, Chair: Bruno Eckhardt

9:00 – 9:40 Keynote lecture by Marcus Hultmark
Exploring the Details of Turbulence with Miniature Sensors

9:40 – 10:05 Ronald Adrian
Analogous structural organization in RBC and wall turbulence

10:05 – 10:30 Federico Toschi, A. Scagliarini, H. Einarsson, A. Gylfason
Law of the wall in an unstably stratified turbulent channel flow

10:30 – 10:45 Eléonore Rusaouen, J. Salort, O. Liot, B. Castaing, F. Chillà
Influence of stratification on a turbulent thermal channel

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

George Keith Batchelor Session, Chair: Charles R. Doering

11:15 – 11:55 Keynote lecture by Emily S.C. Ching
Effects of Polymers on Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence

11:55 – 12:20 Ladislav Skrbek, P. Urban
Has the Ultimate State of Turbulent Thermal Convection Been Observed?

12:20 – 12:45 Emmanuel Plaut, M. Jenny, M. Bouteraa, C. Métivier, C. Nouar
Subcritical Rayleigh-Bénard convection in strongly shear-thinning Carreau fluids

12:45 – 13:00 J. Verhoeven, T. Wiesehöfer,S. Stellmach
Anelastic Versus Fully Compressible Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier Session, Chair: Herman J. H. Clercx

14:00 – 14:40 Keynote lecture by Andreas Tilgner
High Rayleigh number convection with double diffusive fingers

14:40 – 15:05 Ulrich Hansen
Turbulent Convection in Planetary Mantles

15:05 – 15:20 Yantao Yang, E.P. van der Poel, R. Ostilla-Mónico, C. Sun, R. Verzicco, S. Grossmann, D. Lohse
Double diffusive convection between by two parallel plates

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break

Sir George Gabriel Stokes Session, Chair: Federico Toschi

15:50 – 16:15 Jonathan Aurnou
Geophysical Convection in Liquid Metals

16:15 – 16:40 Peter Frick, R. Khalilov, I. Kolesnichenko, A. Mamykin, V. Pakholkov, A. Pavlinov, S. Rogozhkin, A. Vasiliev
Turbulent convective heat transfer in long cylinders with liquid sodium

16:40 – 17:05 Janet Scheel, J. Schumacher
Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in Low Prandtl-Number Fluids

17:05 – 17:20 Fei Wang, S.-D. Huang, S.-Q. Zhou, K.-Q. Xia
An experimental study of bottom heating effects in horizontal convection

17:20 – 20:00 Barbecue

20:00 – 20:30 Bus transfer

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Keynote lectures Printable pdf version

8:30 – 9:00 Bus transfer

Maurice Marie Alfred Couette Session, Chair: Eberhard Bodenschatz

9:00 – 9:40 Keynote lecture by Luca Biferale
Convection in complex flows and with complex boundary conditions

9:40 – 10:05 Jörn Warnecke, P.J. Käpylä, M.J. Käpylä, A. Brandenburg
Magnetic field generation in the Sun driven by
rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection in spherical wedges

10:05 – 10:30 Bruno Eckhardt, M. Salewski, M.S. Emran, J. Schumacher
Broken symmetries and phase diffusion in convection

10:30 – 10:45 Wenjun Liu, D. Krasnov and A. Thess
DNS of natural convection in liquid metal with strong magnetic fields in rectangular box

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

Osborne Reynolds Session, Chair: Janet Scheel

11:15 – 11:40 Juan Pedro Mellado, C.C. van Heerwaarden
On the relation between large-scale circulations and near-surface properties

11:40 – 12:05 Johannes Wicht, A. Barik
Instabilities in the Spherical Couette system: Onset at fast rotation

12:05 – 12:30 Thomas Gastine, J. Wicht, J. Aurnou
Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in spherical shells

12:30 – 12:45 Ambrish Pandey, M.K. Verma, S.C. Ambhire
Flow reversals in turbulent convection with free-slip walls

12:45 – 13:00 Ankit Barik, J. Wicht
Flow Instabilities in Spherical Couette System

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Ernst Kraft Wilhelm Nußelt Session, Chair: Eric Brown

14:00 – 14:25 Enrico Calzavarini, S. Berti, S.C. Hirata
Effect of external radiation on the Rayleigh-Bénard system

14:25 – 14:40 Shi-Di Huang, F. Wang, H.-D. Xi, K.-Q. Xia
A Comparative Experimental Study of Fixed Temperature and Fixed Heat Flux
Boundary Conditions in Turbulent Thermal Convection

14:40 – 14:55 David Goluskin
Internally heated convection

14:55 – 15:20 Charles R. Doering, A.N. Souza, G.P. Chini, P. Hassanzadeh
Wall to wall optimal transport

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 – 16:05 Closing

16:05 – 16:35 Bus transfer

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Keynote lectures

Luca Biferale (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy)
Convection in complex flows and with complex boundary conditions
 Friday 5 June, 9:00 – 9:40

Emily S. C. Ching (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Effects of Polymers on Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence
Thursday 4 June, 11:15 – 11:55

Bérengère Dubrulle (CNRS, France)
What can the study of von Karman flow teach us about Rayleigh-Bénard convection?
Tuesday 2 June, 9:00 – 9:40

Robert E. Ecke (Center for Nonlinear Studies - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Heat transport in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Wednesday 3 June, 14:00 – 14:40

Siegfried Großmann (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
The law of the wall – A challenge for the Euler-Navier-Stokes equations
Monday 1 June, 14:00 – 14:40

Xiaozhou He (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany)
Temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection at high Rayleigh numbers
Monday 1 June, 9:15 – 9:55

Marcus Hultmark (Princeton University, USA)
Exploring turbulence with miniature sensors and large facilities
Thursday 4 June, 9:00 – 9:40

Rudie P. J. Kunnen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Flow structure in turbulent rotating convection: experiments and simulations
Wednesday 3 June, 11:15 – 11:55

Chao Sun (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Experimental investigation of Taylor-Couette turbulence
Wednesday 3 June, 9:00 – 9:40

Andreas Tilgner (University of Göttingen, Germany)
High Rayleigh number convection with double diffusive fingers
Thursday 4 June, 14:00 – 14:40

Quan Zhou (Shanghai University, China)
Heat Transport Enhancement in Turbulent Thermal Convection
Tuesday 2 June, 11:15 – 11:55

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Printable programme

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Abstracts

All abstracts sorted alphabetically by the first author can also be found here.

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