Particle Growth in Turbulent Aerosols

Friday 7 Nov 2014, 09:00 → 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

122:026 (Nordita West seminar room)

Axel Brandenburg (Nordita), Bernhard Mehlig (University of Gothenburg)

This is a kick-off meeting in connection with the project on Bottlenecks for Particle Growth in Turbulent Aerosols financed by the Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

For questions about the meeting please email the organizers, Bernhard Mehlig (Bernhard.Mehlig@physics.gu.se) or Axel Brandenburg (brandenb@nordita.org).

If you need help with accommodation, please email Anne Jifält (anne@kth.se).

1 Welcome

Speaker: Bernhard Mehlig (Gothenburg University)

2 Statistical models for particle dynamics in turbulent aerosols

Speaker: Bernhard Mehlig

10:10 Coffee break

3 Overview over the Göttingen experiments on particles in turbulence

Speaker: Bodenschatz Eberhard (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation)

4 The crystal ball experiment

Speaker: Greg Bewley (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation)

5 Collisions of water droplets in traps

Speaker: Dag Hanstorp (University of Gothenburg)

12:00 Lunch at AlbaNova

6 Microphysics in turbulent rain clouds

Speaker: Gunilla Svensson (MISU, Stockholm)

7 Microphysics in turbulent rain clouds

Speaker: Annica Ekman (MISU, Stockholm)

8 Quantifying the role of turbulence on droplet growth by condensation

Speaker: Gaetano Sardina (MISU Stockholm)

14:20 Coffee break

9 Nature of turbulence in accretion disks

Speaker: Anders Johansen (Lund University)

10 Coagulation dynamics with the Pencil Code

Speaker: Axel Brandenburg (NORDITA, Stockholm)

11 Geometry of heavy-particle tracks in turbulent flows

Speaker: Dhrubaditya Mitra

16:10 Coffee break

12 Discussion session

18:30 Conference Dinner