Ye Zhou, Ph.D.Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Friday, October 14, 2022, 3:00 - 4:00 PM
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Title: Hydrodynamic Instabilities & Turbulence: A Journey Through Scales
ABSTRACT: Hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability and are found in many natural phenomenon and engineering applications. They frequently result in turbulent mixing, which has a major impact on the overall flow development and other effective material properties. This can either be a desired outcome, an unwelcome side effect, or just an unavoidable consequence, but must in all cases be characterized in any model. Examples of the pivotal roles played by the instabilities in applications are given in the context of inertial confinement fusion, supernovae, pulsed-power experiments, scramjets, solar prominences, and ionospheric flows in space. The presentation is addressed to a broad audience, but with particular attention to graduate students and researchers that are interested in the state-of-the-art in our understanding of the instabilities and the unique issues they present in the applications in which they are prominent.
BIO: Dr. Ye Zhou is a member of technical staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Prior to joining LLNL in 1999, Zhou was a Senior Staff Scientist at Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University and at the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware. He is an Associate Editor of Computers & Fluids and has been an Associate Editor/Guest Editor of J. Fluids Eng., J. Turbulence, J. Scientific Computing, Physica D, and Theoretical & Computational Fluid Dynamics. He is a fellow of American Physical Society.
