Studies of turbulence and coherent structures in quasi two-dimensional plasmas and fluids

自然界中最著名但最不为人所知的复杂系统之一是湍流。这个跨学科的项目旨在为一类被称为准二维流体的湍流提供基本的科学知识，这种流体通常表现出自组织特性、稳定的剪切流动和相对较弱的耗散。其意义在于，通过建模和模拟研究，提出了一个有充分根据的假设，即剪切流对湍流的抑制是这种流体中的普遍现象，并且可以利用它来控制流体成分的输运。将开发这种新知识的应用。

One of the most celebrated but least understood complex systems in nature is turbulent flow. This cross-disciplinary project aims to contribute to basic scientific knowledge of a class of turbulent flows, known as quasi two-dimensional fluids, that typically exhibit self-organizing properties, stable sheared flow, and relatively weak dissipation. The significance lies in the proposed testing, by modelling and simulation studies, of the well-grounded hypothesis that suppression of turbulence by sheared flow is a universal phenomenon in such fluids, and that it can be exploited to control transport of fluid constituents. Applications of this new knowledge will be developed.