UCL DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
The Dynamics of Rotating Fluids
Friday 10 January 2014
A meeting on the above theme will be held on Friday 10 January 2014 in Room 505 (5th Floor of
Mathematics / Students Union building). The programme is as follows:
1.15pm Karima Khusnutdinova (Loughborough)
On strongly interacting internal waves in a rotating ocean with a shear flow
1.35pm Darryl Holm (Imperial)
Selective decay in rotating fluids
1.55pm Marine Tort (LMD)
Dynamically consistent shallow-atmosphere equations with a complete Coriolis
force
2.15pm Stephen Thomson (Cambridge)
Jupiter's unearthly jets: a model free of large-scale friction
2.35pm Yury Stepanyants (USQ, Toowoomba, Australia)
Interaction of a soliton with long waves in a rotating fluid
2.55pm Tea/Coffee
3.30pm Geoff Vallis (Exeter)
Superrotation in idealized atmospheres
3.50pm Peter Davidson (Cambridge)
The spontaneous conversion of a turbulent cloud into columnar waves
4.10pm Céline Guervilly (Leeds)
Large-scale vortices in rapidly-rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
4.30pm Chris Hughes (Liverpool and NOC)
Form stress in a steady inviscid flow
4.50pm Vladimir Zeitlin (LMD)
Centrifugal, barotropic and baroclinic instabilities of isolated ageostrophic
anticyclones in the two-layer rotating shallow water
5.10pm Close
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