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The Turbulence group at Warwick
is very vibrant and it has a first rate international
standing. The areas of interest of the turbulence group range from classical
Navier-Stokes (Barkley,
Kerr,
Nazarenko,
Robinson
J, Zaboronski)
to astrophysical magneto-fluids and atmospheres
(Kerr,
Nazarenko)
to quantum and optical turbulence described by the Nonlinear Schrödinder
equation (Nazarenko,
Zaboronski),
to the Burgers shock turbulence (Tribe,
Zaboronski)
through to the turbulence of dispersive waves such as the water surface
waves and sound (Nazarenko).
Although dissimilar at first sight, all of these problems share such fundamental
properties as the strongly non-equilibrium spectral cascades, intermittency
and formation of singularities, which can be attacked by means of the modern
methods of the theoretical physics and newly emerging mathematical techniques
in PDE's, asymptotical analysis, probability, dynamical systems and numerical
simulation.
There is significant interaction with other Departments at Warwick,
in particular through the Fluid
Dynamics Research Centre, which is a joint venture between Engineering
and Mathematics. This Centre also organizes weekly Fluid
Dynamics seminars. Study of turbulence often involves extensive numerical
modelling for which we use excelent supercomputing facilities offered
by the Warwick Centre for Scientific Computing.
In adition the turbulence group is strongly linked
to the other research groups at the Mathematics Institute such as in
Computational
Mathematics (Barkley),
Pattern Formation, PDE's
(Robinson,
Zaboronski),
Dynamical
Systems (MacKay,
Rand, Robinson
J) and Probability
(Elworthy,
Tribe).
Being genuinely interdisciplinary in nature, the turbulence group is
an essential part of the MIR@W
programme. This group enjoys extending the boundaries of their understanding
at informal Turbulence Seminars. The members of the turbulence group will
be very happy to welcome new PhD students or post-docs to join it for a
happy and productive time at Warwick.
In the past, the Warwick group was a part of the European network "Intermittency
in turbulence". Currently we are in the process of bidding for a new EC research and
training network (RTN) "Wave Turbulence" of which Warwick will be the central node.
Marie Curie RTN's provide an excellent environment for the staff
and the PhD students to exchange ideas at the conferences and collaborate
with other members of the turbulence community across Europe.
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