Workshop on Particle-Driven Flows

DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Tuesday 8 July 1997

PROGRAMME

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Prof. Herbert Huppert (Applied Maths, Cambridge):
Introduction and overview of particle-driven flows

11:20 Dr. Paul Cole (Geology, Luton):
Pyroclastic flows on Montserrat: a natural analogue for particle-driven flows

11:40 Dr. Jim Best (Earth Sciences, Leeds):
The influence of grain rotation on wake stability: implications for mechanisms of turbulence modulation in particle-driven flows

12:00 Dr. Bill McCaffrey (Earth Sciences, Leeds):
Mechanisms of grainsize sorting in turbidity currents - the influence of low amplitude topography, and implications for deposit character

12:20 Dr. Brian Dade (Earth Sciences, Cambridge):
Sedimentation under deep-sea currents

12:40 Prof. Keith Dyer (Marine Studies, Plymouth):
In-situ measurements in estuaries of floc size, settling velocity and density

13:00 Lunchbreak.

14:10 Laboratory demonstration

14:20 Prof. Tony Maxworthy (Mech.&Aerospace Engingeering, USC, LA):
Sedimenting surface gravity currents

14:40 Frans de Rooij (Applied Maths, Cambridge):
Experiments on particle-driven intrusions into ambient stratifications (link)

15:00 Dr. Charlotte Gladstone (Mathematics, Bristol):
Sedimentation from turbidity currents

15:20 Dr. Paul Emms (Oceanography, Southampton):
A streamtube model of rotating turbidity currents

15:40 Dr. Henry Pantin (Earth Sciences, Leeds)
Experiments on autosuspension

15:55 Dr. Paul Linden (Applied Maths, Cambridge):
Closure

16:00 Tea.


All presentations will be held in the Syndics Lecture Room in DAMTP, which is equipped with two overhead projectors, a VHS video recorder and a slide projector.

The coffee and tea will be served in the DAMTP Common Room. Lunch will be available from the cafeteria in the University Centre on Mill Lane.


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Frans de Rooij, last update 7 July 1997