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