10th International Conference on Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from different fields to explore the latest advancements in high Rayleigh number convection. By bridging experimental, numerical, and theoretical approaches, we aim to foster collaborations across the field of Rayleigh-Bénard convection and its applications—from industrial processes to geophysical systems.

A full day will review critical connections between turbulent thermal convection and geophysical processes, offering new insights into convection in Nature.

It is the tenth workshop on Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence after Santa Barbara (2000), Ilmenau (2001), Leiden (2003), Trieste (2006), Les Houches (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Göttingen (2015), Twente (2018) and Xi'an (2023).

Program:

• Jonathan Aurnou (UCLA, USA) - Regimes of Rotating Convective Turbulence
• Damien Bouffard (Eawag, Swiss) - Thermally driven cross-shore flows in stratified lakes
• Enrico Calzavarini (Université de Lille, France) - Melting and freezing in a convective cell
• Louis Couston (ENS de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, France) - Thermal convection in polar environments
• Anne Davaille (FAST, France) - Convection in planeraty mantles
• Sven Eckert (Helmholtz Center Dresden, Germany) - Experimental investigations of turbulent liquid metal Rayleigh-Bénard convection in various geometries and aspect ratios
• Sander Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands) - Melting with complications
• Michal Macek (ISI Brno, Czech Republic) - Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in highly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
• Camilla Nobili (University of Surray, UK) - Heat Transport Scaling in Rayleigh–Bénard Convection: From Deterministic Bounds to Stochastic Models
• Philippe-E. Roche (Institut Néel, CNRS, France) - The ultimate state of turbulent convection : myths, facts and open questions
• Janet Scheel (Occidental College California, USA) - High Rayleigh Number Convection in Slender Cylinders for Prandtl Number of 1
• Anne Sergent (LISN, Sorbonne Université, France) - Boundary layer dynamics in Rayleigh-Bénard convection using Direct Numerical Simulations
• Cat Vreugdenhil (University Melbourne, Australia) - Impact of Temperature- and Salinity-driven Convection on Ocean Circulation: Insights from Direct Numerical Simulations
• Hengdong Xi (School of Aeronautics Xi'an, China) - Measured three-dimensional flow structure in turbulents Rayleigh-Bénard convection in slender cylindrical cells
• Yi-Chao Xie (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Experimental studies of liquid metal convection: Effects of aspect ratio and rotation
• Jin-Qiang Zhong (Fudan University, China) - Heat transport and flow-state transition as Rayleigh-Bénard convection interacts with a self-proposed rigid rotor