Contact organisers: Simon Malham & Michal Branicki

Understanding the topological structure of fluid flows is key for tackling many fundamental issues in fluid dynamics, including the possible finite time ‘blow-up’ in the incompressible three-dimensional Euler and Navier–Stokes equations. Recent theoretical, numerical and experimental research has highlighted the plethora of such coherent structures in real flows beyond vortex tubes and sheets, including vortex rings, trefoil vortex knots and fluid-fluid surface cusps.

This one day meeting brings together five experts in the area and aims to develop links to other areas of mathematics and  computational sciences in the hope to provide new insight and new approaches to the analysis of complex turbulent flows.

Invited speakers:

J.D. Gibbon (Imperial), G. Hornig (Dundee), R. Kerr (Warwick), R. Krasny (Michigan), H.K. Moffatt (Cambridge)