Complex Fluids Seminar

Scope. The scope of this seminar is to encourage models that describe complex processes in fluids, e.g. those involving some type of emergent aspect, self-organization, bistability, oscillations, scale interactions, long-ranged order, you name it ;) Examples are bistability in the climate system, convective processes, extreme events, self-similarity and pattern formation in geology or atmospheric processes, interactions and feedbacks between atmosphere and biosphere, etc.

Conceptual models. We are interested in conceptual (but not necessarily complicated) models that are able to capture the core dynamical processes and (some of) the feedbacks in a fluid dynamical system, without getting lost in comprehensive models and many parameters. The sacrifice may sometimes be, that not all processes are considered, and that quantitative detail is missing.

The gain however lies in the theoretical understanding of the model and thereby at least some aspects of reality. We therefore encourage talks that offer a speculate, provocative view on crucial processes, e.g. in the climate system, that are currently not well understood or uncertain.