International Symposium on Fluid Turbulence; Beijing, China

湍流是“经典物理学中最后一个悬而未决的问题”(费曼)，自从1883年雷诺发现层流-湍流转变以来，湍流已经伴随了我们100多年。对流体湍流的正确描述将对大气污染扩散、气象、商业化工过程和飞机设计等多个领域产生影响。信息技术、湍流模拟和实验技术的最新进展为克服流体湍流研究的根本困难带来了巨大的希望。此外，现代数据库技术使对TB级数据集的探索成为可能，这成为了解流体湍流的关键组成部分。拟议中的流体湍流国际研讨会将于9月9日在北京大学中国共和国人民S举行。2009年21月25日。这次研讨会旨在提供一个论坛，让来自世界各地的科学家齐聚一堂，介绍他们在流体湍流方面的最新研究成果，并加强学术交流。与会者将讨论和分享流体湍流的理论、数值和实验研究的发展和创新，涵盖其各个方面。重点将集中在流体湍流的物理和数学方面，以及它们与工程建模和应用的联系。对流体湍流的更好理解将使科学和技术的各个领域受益，从设计节能机械到预测污染物在大气中的传输，再到对地球气候的长期预测。本次研讨会的目的是汇聚世界领先的实验、理论和数值专家，他们对流体湍流，特别是拉格朗日和欧拉湍流、非理想流动、统计工具、次网格建模和数据分析的最新进展非常感兴趣。这将有助于促进这些社区之间的紧张和富有成效的互动，鼓励合作的想法。中国是世界上经济增长最快的地区之一。预计此次研讨会将为美国与会者提供一个直接的平台，与来自世界各地的科学家就流体湍流问题交换意见，并促进与中国学者的合作。此次研讨会也将成为中国研究生更好地了解美国湍流研究的窗口。所要求的财政支持旨在支持28位美国特邀演讲者参加这次研讨会。

Turbulence, "the last unsolved problem in classical physics" (Feynman), has been with us for over 100 years since Reynolds identified the laminar-turbulence transition in 1883. The correct description of fluid turbulence will impact such diverse fields as atmospheric pollution dispersion, weather, commercial chemical processes and aircraft design. Recent advances on information technology, turbulence modeling and experimental techniques have shown a great promise to overcome the fundamental difficulty in studying fluid turbulence. In addition, modern database technology has made exploration of Terabyte datasets possible, which becomes a key component in understanding fluid turbulence. The proposed International Symposium on Fluid Turbulence will be held at Peking University, Beijing, People?s Republic of China on Sept. 21-25, 2009. This Symposium aims to provide a forum to bring together scientists from all over the world to present their latest research results on fluid turbulence and to enhance academic exchanges. The participants will discuss and share developments and innovations in theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of fluid turbulence, covering all of its aspects. The focus will be given to physical and mathematical aspects of fluid turbulence and their connections to engineering modeling and applications. Improved understanding of fluid turbulence will benefit diverse areas of science and technology, from engineering energy-efficient machinery, to predicting transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, and to long-term forecasting of Earth's climate. The purpose of this Symposium is to bring together the world leading experimental, theoretical and numerical experts with a key interest in recent advances in fluid turbulence, in particular Lagrangian and Eulerian Turbulence, non-ideal flows, statistical tools, sub-grid modelisation and data analysis. This would help stimulate an intense and fruitful interaction between these communities, with the idea of encouraging collaborations. China is among the world fastest economical growth regions. It is expected that this Symposium will provide a direct platform for US participants to exchange ideas on fluid turbulence with scientists from over the world and to foster collaborations with Chinese scholars. This Symposium will also serve as a window to allow Chinese graduate students to know US turbulence research better. The requested financial support is intended to support 28 US invited speakers attending this Symposium.