2022

20 April: Christophe Gissinger (ENS Paris): "Angular momentum transport in astrophysics" [Talk]

13 April: V. Balaji (Princeton University): "Climbing down Charney's ladder" [Talk]

6 April: Andres Armua (University of Edinburgh): "Chaos and criticality in incompressible turbulence"[Talk]

30 March: Alexandros Alexakis (ENS, Paris): "Phase transitions in rotating and stratified turbulence" [Talk]

23 March: Dhrubaditya Mitra (Nordita) : "Post-modern turbulence" [Talk]

16 March: Avinash Khare (Sikkim University): "Gravitational collapse of dust in molecular clouds: Approach based on thermodynamics and Virial theorem"

9 March: Pablo D. Mininni (Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET): "Geometry, topology, and dimension reduction in geophysical turbulence" [Talk]

2 March: Alexandre Delache (University of Saint Etienne & Ecole Centrale de Lyon) : "Interaction between waves, eddies and large structure in rotating or stratified turbulence" [ Talk]

23 February: Vinodh Bandaru (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching), "Magneto-fluid equilibrium and stability in fusion plasmas" [ Talk]

16 February: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay (Princeton University), "Parker Solar Probe Enters Sub-Alfvénic Solar Corona" [ Talk]

9 February: Sridhar Balasubramanian (IIT Bombay), "Energetics and mixing efficiency in lock-exchange gravity currents" [ Talk, Q&A ]

2 February: Rupak Mukherjee (Princeton University), "Plasma Turbulence at the Edge of Fusion Reactors" [ Talk, Q&A ]

19 January: Tulasi Parasar (Victoria University of Wellington), "Exploring the potential of neural networks to predict statistics of solar wind turbulence"

2021

17 November: Amita Das (IIT Delhi), "Novel boundary driven mechanism of magnetic field generation in electron beam plasma system" [ Talk, Q&A ]

10 November: Pinaki Chakraborty (OIST, Japan), "The spectral link in turbulent frictional drag" [ Talk, Q&A ]

3 November: NO SEMINAR (DIWALI WEEK)

27 October: Jason R. Picardo (IIT Bombay), "Scission of polymers in turbulent flows" [ Talk, Q&A ]

20 October: Abhishek Kumar (Coventry University), "Mixed baroclinic convection in a cavity"

13 October: No seminar

7 October: Dinshaw S. Balsara (University of Notre Dame), "Geodesic Mesh MHD – Modeling Magnetic Massive Stars in 3D; Simulations of a Magnetic O Star" [ Talk, Q&A ]

29 September: Rama Govindarajan (ICTS, Bengaluru), "Clouds and Covid"

22 September: Mani Chandra (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), "Hydrodynamic charge transport"

15 September: Prasad Perlekar (TCIS, Hyderabad), "Turbulence modulation in buoyancy-driven bubbly flows" [ Talk, Q&A ]

8 September: Samriddhi Sankar Ray (ICTS, Bengaluru), "Many-body chaos in a thermalised fluid" [ Talk, Q&A ]

1 September: Sébastien Galtier (Université Paris-Saclay & École polytechnique), "Gravitational Wave Turbulence" [ Talk, Q&A ]

25 August: Prateek Gupta (IIT Delhi), "Spectral energy dynamics in nonlinear acoustics"

18 August: Sean Oughton (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand), "The unstable nature of Iroshnikov-Kraichnan Turbulence" [ Talk, Q&A ]

11 August: V. Shankar (IIT Kanpur), "Linear Mechanisms for Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Rectilinear Viscoelastic Shearing Flow" [ Talk, Q&A ]

4 August: Nairita Pal (LANL, USA), "Multiscale phenomena in fluid mixing" [ Talk, Q&A ]

28 July: J. K. Bhattacharjee (IACS), "The elusive nature of the Bolgiano-Obukhov energy spectrum for stratified fluids" [ Talk, Q&A ]

14 April: A. Sameen (IIT Madras), "Effect of heating and heat transfer scaling for Vogel-Escudier flows" [ Talk, Q&A ]

7 April: Kannabiran Seshasayanan (IIT Kharagpur), "Surface gravity waves propagating in a rotating frame: The Ekman-Stokes instability" [ Talk, Q&A ]

31 March: David Hughes (University of Leeds), "Force Balance in Dynamos Driven by Rapidly Rotating Convection" [ Talk, Q&A ]

24 March: Adrian Barker (University of Leeds), "Convection with Misaligned Gravity and Rotation: Simulations and Rotating Mixing Length Theory" [ Talk, Q&A ]

17 March: Joerg Schumacher (TU Ilmenau), "Large-scale flows in turbulent convection: direct numerical simulations and reservoir computing models" [ Talk, Q&A ]

10 March: Willam Matthaeus (Univ. Delaware, USA), "Shear driven solar wind turbulence outside the Alfven critical zone: flocculation and switchbacks" [ Talk, Q&A ]

3 March : Amitabh Bhattacharya (IIT Delhi), "An Energy Consistent Gaussian Integral Model for Jet with Off-Source Heating"

24 Feb: Bishakhdatta Gayen (University of Melbourne & IISc), "The role of turbulent convection in driving geostrophic gyres and overturning circulation" [ Talk, Q&A ]

17 Feb: Akshay Bhatnagar (Nordita), "Relative velocities of particles in turbulence" [ Talk, Q&A ]

10 Feb: Manikandan Mathur (IIT Madras), "Polydisperse droplet size growth in turbulence" [ Talk, Q&A ]

3 Feb: Prateek Sharma (IISc, Bangalore), "Turbulence in galaxy clusters" [ Talk, Q&A ]

27 Jan: Amit Agrawal (IIT Bombay), "Quest for Equations beyond the Navier-Stokes" [ Talk, Q&A ]

20 Jan: Dhawal Buaria (NYU), "Understanding extreme velocity and scalar gradients in fully developed turbulence using extreme-scale computing" [ Talk, Q&A ]

2020

11 Nov: Pinaki Pal (NIT Durgapur), "Convective patterns and low dimensional modeling"

4 Nov: Narsing Kumar Jha (WIS), "Elastic instability in plane Poiseuille flow"

28 Oct: Priya Ranjan (SRMU Andhra Pradesh),"HRIDAI: A Tale of Two Categories of ECGs"

7 Oct: Raja Lakkaraju (IIT Kharagpur), "Flow reversals in thermal convection"

30 Sept: Manohar Kumar Sharma (IIT Kanpur), "Statistical properties of rapidly rotating turbulence"

23 Sept: Ravi Samtaney (KAUST Saudi Arabia), "Wall-modeled LES of Turbulent Flow Past Complex Geometries"

16 Sept: Avishek Ranjan (IIT Bombay), "The generation and segregation of helicity in geodynamo simulations"

9 Sept: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay (PU, USA), "Collisionless Dissipation in Turbulent Plasmas – Theory and Observations"

2 Sept: Rodion Stepanov (ICMM Russia), "Turbulence and Wavelets-2"

26 Aug: Sonakshi Sachdev (IIT Kanpur), "Korteweg-type nonlinear dispersive regularization of gas dynamics"

19 Aug: Supratik Banerjee (IIT Kanpur), "Scale dependent anisotropy of the solar wind turbulence with heliospheric latitudes"

12 Aug: Rajesh Ranjan (Ohio State University), "Data-interrogation Techniques for Turbulent Flows"

29 Jul: Ambrish Pandey (NYU Abu Dhabi), "Thermal boundary layer structure in low-Prandtl-number turbulent convection"

22 Jul: Shashwat Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur), "Forecasting Reynolds and Nusselt numbers in turbulent thermal convection using modified Grossmann-Lohse model"

15 Jul: Pankaj Mishra (IIT Guwahati), "Dynamics of quantized vortices in counterflow Superfluid Turbulence"

8 Jul: Rodion Stepanov (ICMM Russia), "Turbulence and Wavelets"

1 Jul: Mahendra Verma (IIT Kanpur), "Turbulence in Equilibrium"

17 Jun: Franck Plunian (UGA, France), "Axisymmetric dynamo action is possible with anisotropic conductivity"