Interfacial processes in industrial and environmental turbulent flows
I. Eames (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London)
A characteristic feature of many industrial and environmental flows is the presence of interfaces across which the properties of the fluid or flow change rapidly. The dynamics of these interfaces, which may partition regions of high turbulence from low turbulence, or dense fluid from light, largely control the gross dynamics of the entire flow. A physical understand of the processes which occur across and adjacent to these interfaces, requires using conditional averaging techniques or local/global conservation laws for momentum and impulse. The following series of talks provide an overview of the recent developments in this area.