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SUMMARY:"Fluid Mechanics Tour des Alpes" : Prof. Colm-Cille Caulfield (Cam
 bridge\, UK) Stratified Turbulence: Climate’s Mysterious Mixer
DTSTART:20250410T131500
DTEND:20250410T141500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Colm-cille P. Caulfield\, DAMTP & IEEF\, University of C
 ambridge\nAbstract:\nStatically stable density stratification is ubiquitou
 s in geophysical flows\, and due to the buoyancy force\,  such statical
 ly stable density distributions typically suppress vertical motions. Such
  inevitable anisotropy complicates even further developing an understandi
 ng of stratified turbulence. This is not `just’ an interesting resear
 ch challenge in classical physics\, since stratified turbulence actu
 ally plays a leading order role in the transport of heat and other scala
 rs (such as carbon dioxide) in the world’s oceans and atmosphere. Inde
 ed\, stratified turbulent mixing is a central (and still highly controvers
 ial) component of the (rapidly changing) global climate system.   In th
 is talk\, I will review some recent studies by my collaborators that have 
 advanced our understanding of various key properties of stratified tu
 rbulence and mixing\, while also demonstrating that there is still much m
 ore to learn about this fascinating and vitally important class of fluid
  flows. \n\nBiography:\nColm-cille P. Caulfield is Professor of Environm
 ental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Applied Mathemati
 cs and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge\, and a 
 faculty member of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF).
  He is also a Professorial Fellow in Mathematics at Churchill College\, Ca
 mbridge. He is the co-chair of the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discov
 ery\, the University’s  Inter-disciplinary Research Centre (IRC) which 
 brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departm
 ents and industry to drive research into the analysis\, understanding and 
 use of data science and AI.  He is also Co-Director (Science) of the Univ
 ersity’s Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS)\, which studi
 es and supports the role of software engineering\, computer science\, AI a
 nd data science within climate science. Prof. Caulfield’s personal resea
 rch interests include instability\, turbulence transition and turbulent mi
 xing processes in stratified flows\, with particular focus on understandin
 g and improving the modelling of heat transport in the world’s oceans. F
 ollowing postdoctoral training in the Department of Physics at the Univers
 ity of Toronto\, Canada\, and the Department of Engineering Science at Hok
 kaido University\, Japan\, he was a lecturer in the School of Mathematics 
 at the University of Bristol\, UK. Prof. Caulfield subsequently joined the
  faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the 
 University of California\, San Diego. Following tenure at UCSD\, Prof. Cau
 lfield joined the BP Institute (now IEEF) and  DAMTP. Prof. Caulfield cur
 rently serves as the Head of DAMTP\, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
  Fluid Mechanics\, and the Chair of the Euromech Turbulence Conference Com
 mittee. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division
  of Fluid Dynamics) in 2014.
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