[seminar] P. Cvitanovic (IRB, III krilo, 25.05., 15.00 c.t.)

[Larisa Jonke]

      INSTITUT "Ruder Boskovic"
      ZAVOD ZA TEORIJSKU FIZIKU
      Bijenicka c. 54, Zagreb, Hrvatska
 
 
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                     SEMINAR TEORIJSKE  FIZIKE
            (Zajednicki seminari Zavoda za fiziku PMF-a i
                 Zavoda za teorijsku fiziku  IRB-a)
 
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     Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

    "Geometry of turbulence: a stroll through 61,506 dimensions
     (A guided tour through ChaosBook.org/tutorials) 

      Vrijeme:  25. svibnja 2009. (ponedjeljak) 15.00, c.t.
 
      Mjesto:  Institut Rudjer Boskovic, predavaonica III krila
 
      Sazetak:   In the world of moderate Reynolds number, everyday
turbulence of fluids flowing across planes and down pipes a velvet
revolution is taking place. Experiments are almost as detailed as the
numerical simulations, DNS is yielding exact numerical solutions that one
dared not dream about a decade ago, and dynamical systems visualization of
turbulent fluid's state space geometry is unexpectedly elegant.

We shall take you on a tour of this newly breached, hitherto inaccessible
territory. Mastery of fluid mechanics is no prerequisite, and perhaps a
hindrance: the talk is aimed at anyone who had ever wondered why - if no
cloud is ever seen twice - we know a cloud when we see one? And how do we
turn that into mathematics?


             
  
     Voditeljica seminara:
     Larisa Jonke (larisa at irb.hr)