These characteristics are found in many natural phenomena, including ocean or atmosphere and ice interaction, flows along rough surfaces such as ocean floors to planetary surfaces, dissolution effects of solid bodies in a fluid, wildland fire propagation, compositionally complex magma and rock-water interactions, reactive fluids including burning chemical fronts in engines (engineering) and nuclear burning, thermonuclear explosions of stars, interstellar dust, etc.. Another area where such effects play a key role is climate modeling. Multiphase modeling is ideally suited to the simulation of the complex interactions between components of the climate system, yet there is very limited experience with this in the climate community. This initiative would contribute to a new direction in this area as well.

We will have several speakers at the Workshop, including:

Outside Speakers:

Dr. Larry Pratt from Woods Hole

Nonlinear fluid dynamics, boundary layers, turbulence.

Dr. Daozhi Han from Indiana

Applied analysis of partial differential equations; Boundary layer theory; Numerical analysis and simulation.

Dr. J. Wang from Georgia Tech

Air-sea-land boundary layers.

FSU Speakers:

Dr. Ming Cai (FSU/EOAS)

Dr. David Collins (FSU/Physics)

Dr. Dewar (FSU/EOAS)

Dr. Bruno Deremble (FSU/EOAS)

M. Bourassa (FSU/COAPS)