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CoMuEx researchers apply high-resolution diagnostics to study fluid dynamics in extreme environments to support modern technologies with a diverse applications, including efficient nuclear energy, stockpile stewardship and astrophysics.

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  • Center Director
  • Malcolm J. Andrews
  • (505) 606-1430
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  • Director of Applications
  • Robert A. Gore
  • (505) 665-0976
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Events
  • New statistical symmetries in statistical turbulence theory - resulting scaling laws and modelling implications / New non-modal hydrodynamic stability and resulting non-exponential growth rates - a symmetry approach  (Martin Oberlack (TU Darmstadt))
    Time: 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, August 18, 2016
    Place: T4
  • An extended Discontinuous Galerkin (XDG) scheme for high-order multi-phase simulations using non-smooth basis functions at the phase interface (Martin Oberlack (TU Darmstadt))
    Time: 10:00 a.m., Thursday, August 19, 2016
    Place: T4
  • Modeling the Force Variation within Random Arrays of Spheres
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2016
    Place: T4
  • Exploring Ocean Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions using the Eliassen-Palm Flux Tensor
    Time: 11:00 a.m., Thursday, June 24, 2016
    Place: T4
  • Model for non-stationary, inhomogeneous turbulent flows
    Time: 11:00 a.m., Thursday, March 31, 2016
    Place: T4
  • Rotational kinematics of finite-sized anisotropic particles in turbulence
    Time: 11:00 a.m., Thursday, February 18, 2016
    Place: T4
  • Analysis of instabilities and turbulence within a spiraling vortex filament using proper orthogonal decomposition
    Time: 11:00 a.m., Thursday, September 10, 2015
    Place: Otowi (NB)
  • Development of turbulent statistics and length scales for variable density mixing in buoyant jets
    Time: 3:30 a.m., Thursday, August 20, 2015
    Place: T4
  • Recent progress in our understanding of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Praveen Ramaprabhu University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Time: 11:30 a.m., Thursday, August 6, 2015
    Place: T4
  • Forward and backward in time dispersion of fluid and inertial particles in isotropic turbulence
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23, 2015
    Place: T4
  • Future Directions in Ejecta Research
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, March 26, 2015
    Place: T4
  • Progress on Simulation of Explosive Dispersal of Particles at the Center for Compressible Multiphase Turbulence (CCMT)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, March 19, 2015
    Place: T4
  • Neutralization of Bio-Agents in Post-Detonation Flow with Dense Particle Clouds
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, February 12, 2015
    Place: T4
  • Crossflow instability in the Mach 6 boundary layer on a cone
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, January 15, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Time evolution of turbulent mixing quantities in the shocked heavy gas curtain: an extended analysis.
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, December 11, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Modifying Shock-Driven Turbulent Mixing Through the Spectral Content of Initial Interface Perturbations
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, November 13, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Onset of Natural Convection in Saline Aquifers
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, October 30, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Multicomponent Reynolds-Averaged NavierStokes Simulations of Reshocked RichtmyerMeshkov Instability and Turbulent Mixing: Mach Number and Atwood Number Effects
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, October 23, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Numerical Solution of Multi-Dimensional Compressible Reactive Flow Using a Parallel Wavelet Adaptive Multi-Resolution Method
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, October 16, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Measurement of Favre-Averaged Statistics in Buoyant Jets
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, October 7, 2014
    Place: T4
  • 3D Simulations of OMEGA-type ICF Capsules
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, October 2, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Experiments on the expansion wave driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, September 25, 2014
    Place: T4 
  • Some exact statistical results for binary mixing and reaction in variable density turbulence (Unclassified)
    Abstract (pdf)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, August 21, 2014
    Place: T4 
  • Theories for inertial particle clustering in isotropic turbulence (Unclassified)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, July 10, 2014
    Place: T4
  • Effect of inhomogeneity and unsteadiness on the stability of high-speed shear flows (Unclassified)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, 2013
    Place: T4
  • High-fidelity prediction and control of turbulent flows with multi-physics (Unclassified)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, December 19, 2013
    Place: T4
  • Simplifying complex measurements:  Plenoptic cameras and the future of experimental flow diagnostics (Unclassified)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, December 12, 2013
    Place: T4
  • Postdoc interview talk by Peter Brady, Ph.D.(Unclassified)
    Time: 3:30 p.m., Thursday, November 14, 2013
    Place: T4
  • COMUEX All-Hands Meeting (Classified)
    Time: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday, August 26, 2013
    Place: SCC Rm 1014
Archived Seminars
  • January 10, 2013: Multiscale Organization of Turbulent Structures in Wall-Bounded Shear Flow Simulations - Jon Baltzer | Abstract (pdf)
  • December 18, 2012: Hypersonic boundary layer transition from laminar to turbulent flow - Joe Shepherd | Abstract (pdf)
  • November 8, 2012: Direct Numerical Simulation of High-Speed Turbulent Flows - Lian Duan | Abstract (pdf)
  • October 18, 2012: Simulations of Material Mixing in a Laser-Driven Reshock Experiment - Brian M. Haines | Abstract (pdf)
  • September 10, 2012: Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes Modeling of Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability-Induced Mixing - Oleg Schilling | Abstract (pdf)
  • August 16, 2012: Shock-initiated combustion: New insights into the nature of the shock-focusing phenomenon - Nicholas Haehn | Abstract (pdf)
  • July 16-20, 2012: IWPTCM13, Sculpture Gallery, Woburn Abbey, Woburn, England
  • May 31:  Hydrodynamical instabilities of a stationary shock:  from supernova theory to a shallow water experiment
  • May 24:  Progress toward a Common Mix model - Malcolm Andrews/Jon Reisner
  • May 17: Strength Experiments - Arindam Banerjee/Lehigh Univ
  • May 10: Post-Doc interview talk – host: Rob Gore
  • May 3: Coarse grained turbulence computations for the 21st century - update:  leaving the eddy viscosity paradigm behind - (a title purposely designed to elicit a response)  J R Ristorcelli
  • 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
    November 20-22, 2011
    Baltimore, MD

Archived Conferences
  • The International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows (ICNMMF)
    Penn State University June 12-14, 2012.
    www.icnmmf.org
  • Turbulent Mixing and Beyond (TMB), Third International Conference
    Aug. 21-28, 2011 - Completed
    Trieste, Italy
  • ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting
    July 8-12, 2012
    Puerto Rico, USA
  • ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
    November 11-17, 2011
    Denver, CO