The 16th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
(ICTW) will be held from September 9 to 11, 2009 at Princeton
University, New Jersey, USA. Topics to be covered are:
Classical Couette-Taylor flows
Centrifugal instabilities of Dean, Gortler, Taylor-Dean flows
Spherical Couette flows
Rotating flows, Von Karman flows
Vortex dynamics
Geophysical and astrophysical flow instabilities
Magnetohydrodynamic and dynamo effects
Rayleigh-Benard instabilities
Rotating complex fluids
Instability control
Pattern selection
Chaos
Turbulent flows in curved configurations
Other related topics
More detailed informaion will follow. The preliminary meeting website has been set up at http://mri.pppl.gov/ICTW.html Please check this website for updates, or email Hantao Ji at hji@pppl.gov or Lex Smits at asmits@princeton.edu for particular questions. We look forward to seeing you in Princeton in 2009.
Hantao Ji
Lex Smits
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