Meetings/Workshops on Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Statistical Physics in the United States (USA)

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) and the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE)

PRTEC2019 provides an international forum for the exchange of new ideas and direction related to the future thermal engineering and the presentation of the latest work in this field.

American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE)

ASTFE is the premier international society by and for professionals within the thermal and fluids science and engineering community. The 2020 ASTFE conference provides an international forum for the dissemination of the latest research and knowledge in the thermal and fluid sciences.

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials,    Engineering (general)

The 2020 ASHRAE Annual Conference technical program is comprised of eight tracks as well as a mini-track, selected to represent areas of focus common among ASHRAE membership. The track focus areas include fundamentals and applications, HVAC&R systems and equipment, research summit, professional development and other specific topics including grid-interactive efficient built environment, multifamily and residential buildings, resilient buildings and communities, zero energy buildings, communities: opportunities and challenges and a building myths mini-track. ASHRAE is a diverse organization representing building system design and industrial processes professionals around the world.

Civil Engineering and Construction,    Ecosystems, Environment and Sustainable Development

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

A fascinating and surprising phenomenon that can occur in fluid and plasma turbulence is the spontaneous formation of arrays of layers in which material properties such as density adopt a so-called “staircase” structure. The most striking examples are potential vorticity staircases in planetary atmospheres, and thermohaline staircases in the oceans. Theoretical considerations suggest that layering also plays an important role in stellar interiors (particularly through various double-diffusive processes) and in fusion confinement devices (the so-called E x B staircase). Understanding the phenomenon of layering is, therefore, not only of intrinsic scientific interest (e.g., is there a common thread to layering in these very different contexts?), but is also crucial for an accurate description of turbulent transport in, for example, models of large-scale ocean flow, the evolution of stellar interiors and confinement in tokamaks.

Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion,    Mathematical Physics