June 3 - 4, 2011, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Colloquium Programme
Friday, June 3, 2011
| 8.00 – 9.00 Registration | ||||
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Opening Addresses | |||
| Detlef Löhe | Vice President of KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany | |||
| Noboyuki Tamai | President of IAHR, Gakuin University, Japan | |||
| Reflections on Gerhard Jirka’s Scientific Contributions | ||||
| Helmut Kobus | University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany | Gerhard Jirka and his contributions to German Water Research | ||
| Johann Stocker | Consorzio Venezia Nuova, Venice, Italy | Safeguarding Venice – Advisory role of Professor Jirka | ||
| Tobias Bleninger, Cornelia Lang | IfH, KIT & Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil | Mixing and Transport Processes in Environmental Fluid Systems – Gerhard Jirka’s scientific achievements | ||
| Coffee | ||||
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Shallow Flows | |||
| Wim Uijttewaal | University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands | Horizontal Mixing in Shallow Flows | ||
| Mohamed Ghidaoui | The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology | Onset and Initial Development of Instabilities in Shallow Shear Flows | ||
| Gert Jan van Heijst | University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands | Laboratory Experiments on Shallow Flows | ||
| Lunch | ||||
| 13.30 – 15.30 | Ana Maria Ferreira da Silva | Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada | Characteristic Scales and Dynamics of Large-Scale Horizontal Coherent Structures in Shallow Open-Channel Flows: an Experimental Investigation | |
| Greg A. Lawrence | University of British Columbia, Canada | Waves and Currents: Hawking Radiation in the Hydraulics Laboratory | ||
| Fluvial Hydraulics | ||||
| Fotis Sotiropoulos | University of Minnesota, USA | Turbulent Flow and Sediment Transport Phenomena in Natural Waterways: Insights gained by LES | ||
| Giovanni Seminara | University of Genova, Italy | Progress in Tidal Morphodynamics | ||
| Coffee | ||||
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Peter Goodwin | University of Idaho, USA | Flow Structure and the Sustainability of Pools in Gravel-Bed Rivers | |
| Andreas Dittrich | Universität Braunschweig, Germany | Influence of Vegetation on Flow Resistance and Flow Field | ||
| Vladimir Nikora | University of Aberdeen, U.K. | Flow-Biota Interactions in Aquatic Systems: Scales, Mechanisms, and Challenges | ||
| 19.30 Conference Dinner | ||||
Saturday, June 4, 2010
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Small-scale Phenomena | ||
| Daoyi Chen | University of Liverpool, U.K. | Interaction of Flows and Particles in the Sub-Micrometer Scales | |
| Willi H. Hager | VAW, ETH Zurich, Switzerland | Environmental Aspects in Wastewater Hydraulics | |
| Alfred Wüest | EAWAG, Switzerland | Small scales in Natural Waters | |
| Coffee | |||
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Buoyant/Stratified Flows | ||
| Joseph Hun-wei Lee | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Mixing of Multiple Buoyant Jets | |
| Harinda Joseph S. Fernando | University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA | Jets, Plumes and Double Diffusion under Confinement! And their role in US Strategic Petroleum Reserves | |
| Peter Davies | University of Dundee, U.K. | Modelling Internal Solitary Waves in Shallow Stratified Fluids | |
| Lunch | |||
| 13.30 – 15.30 | Gravity Currents | ||
| Marcelo H. Garcia | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA | Fluid Mechanics of Density Currents and Salt Wedges | |
| Gary Parker | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA | Effect of Self-stratification due to Suspended Sediment: Rivers versus Turbidity Currents | |
| Johannes Bühler | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | Revisiting Gravity Currents and Free Shear Flows | |
| George Constantinescu | University of Iowa, USA | On the Effect of Drag on the Propagation of Compositional Gravity Currents | |
| Coffee | |||
| 16.00 – 17.40 | Mass Transfer | ||
| Bernd Jähne | University of Heidelberg, Germany | Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces | |
| John Gulliver | University of Minnesota, USA | Mass Transfer from Bubble Swarms | |
| Roger Falconer | Cardiff University, U.K. | Modelling Bacteria and Trace Metal Fluxes in Estuarine Systems | |
| Closing of Colloquium | |||
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