Modeling and Simulations in Fluids

Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM)

September 7, 2024 - September 8, 2024
Saturday, September 7, 2024
  • 8:30 - 8:45 am EDT
    Check In
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 8:45 - 8:55 am EDT
    Welcome
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Brendan Hassett, ICERM/Brown University
  • 8:55 - 9:00 am EDT
    Opening Remarks
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Tulin Kaman, University of Arkansas
  • 9:00 - 10:00 am EDT
    Second Order Phase Transitions
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • James Glimm, Stony Brook University
    • Session Chair
    • Tulin Kaman, University of Arkansas
    Abstract
    Second order phase transitions describe in a macroscopic manner the decay of energy of a physical system Applied to fluid turbulence, they lead to a proof of existence of non-smooth solutions for the Navier-Stokes equation, with the mathematical proof outlined here. Applied to Yang-Mills quantum fields, they give rise to the mass gap, a Millenium Prize problem. Applied to cosmology and astrophysics, they support a novel explanation for dark matter and dark energy.
  • 10:15 - 11:00 am EDT
    Poster Session/Coffee
    Poster Session - 11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 11:00 - 11:40 am EDT
    Exascale DNS and time-dependent reduced order model of turbulent premixed ammonia/hydrogen jet flames for power generation
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
    • Session Chair
    • Tulin Kaman, University of Arkansas
  • 11:55 am - 12:35 pm EDT
    State Redistribution on Adaptive Mesh Hierarchies with Embedded Boundaries
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Ann Almgren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Session Chair
    • Tulin Kaman, University of Arkansas
  • 12:50 - 12:55 pm EDT
    Group Photo (Immediately After Talk)
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
  • 12:55 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 2:00 - 2:40 pm EDT
    High-order finite-volume methods on locally structured grids: algorithms and software.
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Session Chair
    • Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
    Abstract
    We will discuss current work on fourth-order accurate finite-volume methods for conservation laws on locally-rectangular adaptive grids, including discretization methods for mapped-multiblock coordinate systems, and the use of embedded domain-specific languages and run-time compilation for obtaining high performance and high productivity on CPU and GPU-based systems. We will illustrate the use of these methods for CFD calculations in spherical geometries.
  • 2:55 - 3:20 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 3:20 - 4:00 pm EDT
    Inverse Lax-Wendroff Procedure for Numerical Boundary Conditions
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
    • Session Chair
    • Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
    Abstract
    When solving partial differential equations, finite difference methods have the advantage of simplicity, however they are usually only designed on Cartesian meshes. In this talk, we will discuss a class of high order finite difference numerical boundary condition for solving hyperbolic Hamilton-Jacobi equations, hyperbolic conservation laws, and convection-diffusion equations on complex geometry using a Cartesian mesh. The challenge results
  • 4:15 - 4:55 pm EDT
    Fully resolved Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Gretar Tryggvason, Johns Hopkins University
    • Session Chair
    • Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
    Abstract
    Fully resolved simulations of multiphase flow have come a long way in the last two to three decades and we now routinely simulate flows where we fully resolve a large range of temporal and spatial continuum scales, at least for relatively simple disperse flows of bubbles, drops and solid particles. The challenges now are twofold: How to use the results to increase our ability to predict industrial scale flows and how to conduct direct numerical simulations of much more complex systems. Routine predictions usually require course models where the large scales are evolved deterministically, and small scales are included statistically. We will discuss strategies to coarsen results of fully resolved simulations of multiphase flows in a systematic way, retaining sharp interfaces, as well as initial efforts to develop models to evolve the coarse flow. We also discuss efforts to simulate more complex flows, including three-phase liquid-gas-solid disperse flows where the solid particles are either hydrophobic or hydrophilic.
  • 5:00 - 6:30 pm EDT
    Reception
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Sunday, September 8, 2024
  • 9:00 - 9:40 am EDT
    Efficient Computation through Tuned Approximation
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    • Session Chair
    • Gretar Tryggvason, Johns Hopkins University
    Abstract
    Numerical software is being reinvented to provide opportunities to tune dynamically the accuracy of computation to the requirements of the application, resulting in savings of memory, time, and energy. Floating point computation in science and engineering has a history of “oversolving” relative to expectations for many models. So often are real datatypes defaulted to double precision that GPUs did not gain wide acceptance until they provided in hardware operations not required in their original domain of graphics. However, computational science is now reverting to employ lower precision arithmetic where possible. Many matrix operations considered at a blockwise level allow for lower precision and many blocks can be approximated with low rank near equivalents. This leads to smaller memory footprint, which implies higher residency on memory hierarchies, leading in turn to less time and energy spent on data copying, which may even dwarf the savings from fewer and cheaper flops. We provide examples from several application domains, including a look at campaigns in geospatial statistics, seismic processing, genome wide association studies, and climate emulation that earned Gordon Bell Prize finalist status in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
  • 9:55 - 10:20 am EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 10:20 - 11:00 am EDT
    Turbulent-laminar patterns in wall-bounded shear flows
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Virtual Speaker
    • Laurette Tuckerman, Sorbonne UniversitĂ©
    • Session Chair
    • Gretar Tryggvason, Johns Hopkins University
  • 11:15 - 11:55 am EDT
    Green's function for a general system of hyperbolic-parabolic balance laws with application
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    • Session Chair
    • Gretar Tryggvason, Johns Hopkins University
    Abstract
    We consider a general system of hyperbolic-parabolic balance laws, which contains both second order dissipation (viscosity) and lower order damping. As dictated by physics, the viscosity matrix and the Jacobian matrix of the lower order term are usually rank deficient. We study the Green's function of its linearization around a constant equilibrium state. The Green's function is constructed using heat kernels along equilibrium characteristics directions and delta functions along frozen characteristics direction. A detailed error estimate is given in space-time pointwise sense. Our result applies to polyatomic gas flows.
  • 12:10 - 1:30 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 1:30 - 2:10 pm EDT
    Convection: Lord Kelvin’s brilliant blunder
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Katepalli Sreenivasan, New York University
    • Session Chair
    • Ann Almgren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Abstract
    One of the three modes of heat transport is convection. This detail matters in many contexts: interior of the sun, interior as well as the atmosphere of the earth, nuclear cooling structures, and many engineering applications. For example, an improper understanding of convection inside the earth led Lord Kelvin to underestimate the age of the earth (as is well known) by a factor of a few hundreds. We discuss turbulent convection in this talk. In particular, we will examine its behavior at parameter values characteristic of geophysical and astrophysical problems, taking guidance from experiment, simulation, and theory.
  • 2:25 - 2:50 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 2:50 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Interface dynamics in ideal and realistic fluids
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Snezhana Abarzhi, California Institute of Technology / University of Western Australia
    • Session Chair
    • Ann Almgren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Abstract
    Interface and mixing and their non-equilibrium kinetics and dynamics couple micro to macro scales, and are ubiquitous to occur in fluids, plasmas and materials, in high energy density regimes. Stellar evolution, plasma fusion, reactive fluids, purification of water, and nanofabrication are a few examples of many processes to which dynamics of interfaces is directly relevant. This talk presents the rigorous theory of the stability of the interface – a phase boundary broadly defined. We directly link the structure of macroscopic flow fields to microscopic interfacial transport, quantify the contributions of macro and micro stabilization mechanisms to interface stability, and discover the fluid instabilities never previously discussed. In ideal and realistic fluids, the interface stability is set primarily by the interplay of the macroscopic inertial mechanism balancing the destabilizing acceleration, whereas microscopic thermodynamics create vortical fields in the bulk. By linking micro to macro scales, the interface is the place where balances are achieved.
  • 3:45 - 4:25 pm EDT
    Stability and Instability of Characteristic Interfaces and Free Boundary Problems in Fluid Flows
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Speaker
    • Gui-Qiang Chen, University of Oxford
    • Session Chair
    • Ann Almgren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Abstract
    We will discuss some recent progress of our research program in developing rigorous mathematical approaches, techniques, and ideas to analyze the nonlinear stability/instability of characteristic interfaces (including vortex sheets and entropy waves) and related free boundary problems for compressible fluid flows governed by the Euler equations and related nonlinear PDEs, and explore stabilizing mechanisms such as magnetic, relativistic, thermoelastic, and compressibility effects for the characteristic interfaces. We also discuss how the principle of maximum entropy provides an approach for determining the physical probability distributions of the turbulent flow in the presence of constraints on the mean energy, if time permits.
  • 4:25 - 4:30 pm EDT
    Closing Remarks
    11th Floor Lecture Hall

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