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Fakultät 3
Lehrstuhl Aerodynamik und Strömungslehre Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Egbers

GeoFlow II

March, 22-23 2012

Topical Team Meeting

Thursday, March, 22nd 2012
1:00 pmIntroduction to Geoflow
(Chr. Egbers, BTU Cottbus)
1:15 pmGeoflow II Experiment
  • Experimental observation 
    (B. Futterer, BTU Cottbus)
  • Image processing
    (A. Krebs, BTU Cottbus)
  • Numerical simulation in low viscosity contrasts
    (F. Zaussinger, BTU Cottbus)
  • Numerical simulation in high viscosity contrasts
    (A. Plesa, DLR Berlin)
3:30 pmcoffee break
4:00 pmThermal convection in complex fluids: from the laboratory to planetary dynamics
(Anne Davaille, Laboratoire Fluides, Automatique et Systeme Thermiques, CRNS Paris )
4:30 pmFurther TT activities on the ESA framework
(S. Mazzoni, ESA ESTEC Nordwijk)
5:00 pmLaboratory tour on EuHIT facilities
7:00 pmDinner
Friday, March, 23rd 2012
9:00 amOpening 
(Christoph Egbers, BTU Cottbus)
9:10 amFramework of GeoFlow III:
  • Preliminary numerical simulation in thin spherical shells with a pole2equator temperature gradient
    (Florian Zaussinger, BTU Cottbus)
  • The range and diversity of circulation regimes in simplified numerical models of baroclinic atmospheres
    (Peter Read, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)
  • Structural vacillation in the transition to turbulence
    (Wolf-Gerrit Früh, Harriot Watt University Edingburgh)
  • Baroclinic instability/transition in the annular domains
    (Anthony Randriamampianina, Université Marseille)
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:00 amParabolic Flight Campaign "Convection in a Cylinder" (PFC-CIC) - Flow control on the Mesoscale:
  • 3D numerical simulation
    (O. Crumeyrolle, University of LeHavre)
  • Experiments with heat flux measurements
    (N. Dahley, BTU Cottbus)
12:00 pmLunch
2:30 pmExcursion to open mining areas (optional)