Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
The 2012 GFD Program theme was Coherent structures with Professors Jeffrey Weiss of
the University of Colorado at Boulder and Edgar Knobloch of the University of California
at Berkeley serving as principal lecturers. Together they introduced the audience in the
cottage and on the porch to a fascinating mixture of models, mathematics and applications.
Deep insights snaked through the whole summer, as the principal lecturers stayed on to
participate in the traditional debates and contributed stoutly to the supervision of the
fellows. The first ten chapters of this volume document these lectures, each prepared by
pairs of the summer's GFD fellows. Following the principal lecture notes are the written
reports of the fellows' own research projects. In 2012, the Sears Public Lecture was delivered by Professor Howard Bluestein, of the
University of Oklahoma on the topic of "Probing tornadoes with mobile doppler radars".
The topic was particularly suitable for the summer's theme: a tornado is a special examples
of a vortex, perhaps the mother of all coherent structures in
fluid dynamics. Howie "Cb"
showed how modern and innovative measurement techniques can yield valuable information
about the formation and evolution of tornadoes, as well as truly amazing images.
Description:
Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under Grant No. N00014-09-10844 and
the National Science Foundation under Contract No. OCE-0824636.
Keywords:
Tornadoes
;
Fluid dynamics
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
Format:
application/pdf
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