News archive (2020 and older)


12/7-10/2020 Talk by Denis Aslangil (Aslangil, Livescu and Banerjee) at the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC2020) .

11/22-24/2020 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team and MeLT Project members and collaborators: Denis Aslangil, Kevin Cherng, Criston Hyett, Arvind Mohan, Arash Nouri, Juan Saenz, Nek Sharan, Yifeng Tian, Dima Tretiak, and Michael Woodward at the 73rd APS/DFD Annual Meeting .

11/16-19/2020 Talk by Pascal Grosset (Grosset et al) at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC20) .

11/9-13/2020 Talk by Jeff Haack (Haack et al) at the 62nd APS/DPP Annual Meeting .

09/2020 Dr. Daniel Livescu has joined the Editorial Board of the AIAA Journal as an Associate Editor.

05/18-19/2020 Dr. Daniel Livescu co-organized (with Prof. M. Chertkov, University of Arizona) the Fluid Mechanics session of Arizona - Los Alamos Days , workshop. The workshop featured talks and presentations by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members, Y. Tian, N. Sharan and K. Cherng.

04/26-5/1 /2020 Talks by Dr. Arvind Mohan (Mohan, Lubbers, Livescu Chertkov and Mohan, Livescu, Chertkov) at the AI for Earth Sciences workshop of the Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR20) , Virtual Conference, formerly Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

02/2020 Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Mixing and Reaction was published by Springer.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-2643-5


02/2020 Congratulations to Nairita Pal who has been converted to staff scientist in T-3/LANL.

02/2020 Congratulations to Don Daniel and Gavin Portwood who have been converted to staff scientists in XCP-4/LANL.

02/10-11/2020 Talks by the MeLT DR members: Gavin Portwood, Arvind Mohan and Platon Karpov at NSF Workshop on Exuberance of Machine Learning in Transport Phenomena , Dallas, TX.

01/13-17/2020 Talks by the MeLT DR members: Gavin Portwood, Arvind Mohan, Misha Chertkov at 3rd Physics Informed Machine Learning (PIML 2020) , Santa Fe, NM.

01/6-10/2020 Talks by Yifeng Tian (Tian, Jaberi, Livescu) and Nek Sharan (Sharan, Brady, Livescu) at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Scitech Forum 2020 , Orlando, Fl.

12/2019 Dr. Daniel Livescu has been elected as a Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Computational Physics.

12/8-16/2019 Talks by the MeLT DR members: Gavin Portwood, Peetak Mitra, Misha Chertkov at NeurIPS 2019 , Vancouver, Canada.

11/23-26/2019 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members and collaborators: Denis Aslangil, Arvind Mohan, Gavin Portwood, Nek Sharan, Prakash Shrestha, Yifeng Tian, Jon Baltzer, Peter Brady, and Zhaorui Li at the 72th APS/DFD Annual Meeting , Seattle, WA.

11/11-14/2019 Congratulations to Dr. Denis Aslangil who has been awarded the best Theoretical Aproach Poster at the 2019 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition , Salt Lake City, UT.

10/10/2019 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a graduate seminar at University of Iowa.

09/6-7/2019 Dr. Daniel Livescu participated in the workshop Frontiers of Fluid and Thermal Sciences in Aerospace Engineering , in celebration of 60 years of scholarly contributions by Professor William A. Sirignano, Irvine, CA.

09/3-6/2019 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members and collaborators: Arvind Mohan, Jon Baltzer, and Juan Saenz at the 17th European Turbulence Conference , Torino, Italy.

07/26/2019 Congratulations to Denis Aslangil, Lehigh University, who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Denis will join the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team for a postdoctoral appointment.

04/22/2019 Congratulations to Yifeng Tian, Michigan State University, who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Yifeng will join the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team for a postdoctoral appointment.

04/22/2019 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a graduate seminar at Michigan State University.

04/19-21/2019 Dr. Daniel Livescu co-organized (with Prof. A. Tumin, University of Arizona) the Fluid Mechanics session of Arizona - Los Alamos Days , workshop, University of Arizona. The workshop featured talks and presentations by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members, D. Aslangil, A. Mohan and N. Pal.

04/12-13/2019 Dr. Daniel Livescu co-organized (with Prof. F. Battaglia, University of Buffalo, and Prof. P. Givi, University of Pittsburgh) the workshop Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Mixing and Reaction: For Power, Energy and Flight , Buffalo, NY.

01/7-11/2019 Dr. Peter Brady gave a talk (Brady and Livescu) at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Scitech Forum 2019 , San Diego, CA.

12/14/2018 Congratulations to Man Long Wong, Stanford University, who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

11/18-20/2018 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members and collaborators: Jon Baltzer, Peter Brady, Denis Aslangil, Balu Nadiga, Yifeng Tian, Nairita Pal, Man Long Wong, Arvind Mohan, and Maxime Bassenne at the 71th APS/DFD Annual Meeting , Atlanta, GA.

10/2018 Congratulations to Cale Harnish who has passed his Ph.D. general exam.

09/5-7/2018 Talks by Denis Aslangil (Aslangil, Livescu and Banerjee) and Dr. Don Daniel (Daniel and Livescu) at the iTi (interdisciplinary Turbulence initiative) Conference on Turbulence , Bertinoro, Italy.

07/29-08/02/2018 Cale Harnish gave a talk (Harnish, Matous and Livescu) at the XXX IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics , University of California, Davis, CA.

07/15-20/2018 Talks by Denis Aslangil (Aslangil, Livescu and Banerjee) and Dr. Balu Nadiga (Nadiga and Livescu) at the 16th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing , Marseille, France.

06/4-9/2018 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave an invited talk at the 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics , Chicago, IL. Cale Harnish also gave a talk (Harnish, Matous and Livescu) at the same conference.

04/2018 Congratulations to Yifeng Tian who has passed his Ph.D. general exam.

02/2018 Dr. Daniel Livescu has received the 2017 (inaugural) Frank Harlow Distinguished Mentor Award.

01/8-12/2018 Yifeng Tian gave a talk (Tian, Jaberi and Livescu) at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Scitech Forum 2018 , Kissimmee, FL.

12/9-12/2017 Dr. Peter Brady gave a talk (Brady and Livescu) at the SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD17) , Baltimore, MD.

12/06/2017 Congratulations to Scott Wieland who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Scott will stay at the University of Colorado Boulder for a postdoctoral appointment.

11/19-21/2017 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members and collaborators: Jon Baltzer, Peter Brady, Don Daniel, Scott Wieland, Denis Aslangil, Yifeng Tian, Daniel Livescu, Nairita Pal, Susan Kurien, Man Long Wong, Zhaorui Li and Arash Nouri at the 70th APS/DFD Annual Meeting , Denver, CO.

10/06/2017 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a graduate seminar at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

08/21-24/2017 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members: Jon Baltzer, Don Daniel, Denis Aslangil and Daniel Livescu at the 16th European Turbulence Conference , Stockholm, Sweden.

07/25-28/2017 Cale Harnish gave a talk (Harnish, Matous and Livescu) at the 54th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science , Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

07/17-20/2017 Cale Harnish gave a talk (Harnish, Matous and Livescu) at the 14th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics , Montreal, Canada.

07/9-14/2017 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a talk (Tian, Jaberi and Livescu) at the 31st International Symposium on Shock Waves , Nagoya, Japan.

07/6-9/2017 Yifeng Tian gave a talk (Tian, Jaberi and Livescu) at the 10th International Symposium on Turbulence Shear Flow Phenomena, Chicago, IL.

06/5-9/2017 Scott Wieland gave a talk (Wieland, Reckinger, Hamlington and Livescu) at the 47th Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Aviation Forum, Denver, CO.

03/2017 Congratulations to Scott Wieland who has passed his Ph.D. general exam.

03/2017 Congratulations to Peter Brady who has been converted to staff scientist in CCS-2/LANL.

11/20-22/2016 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members: Jon Baltzer, Scott Wieland, Denis Aslangil, Yifeng Tian and Daniel Livescu at the 69th APS/DFD Annual Meeting , Portland, OR.

10/2016 Dr. Daniel Livescu was elected as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

10/07/2016 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a distinguished seminar at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi.

10/2-5/2016 Cale Harnish gave a talk (Harnish, Matous and Livescu) at the 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science , University of Maryland, MD.

08/21-26/2016 Talks by Livescu and Li and Srinath, Livescu and Miller at the 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics , Montreal, Canada.

8/9/2016 Scott Wieland gave a talk (Wieland, Livescu, Vasilyev and Reckinger) at the 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Fluid Mechanics Research Symposium , Boulder, CO.

07/11-15/2016 Dr. Balu Nadiga gave a talk (Nadiga and Livescu) at the 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing , Sidney, Australia.

06/2016 Congratulations to Rebecca Bertsch who has been converted to staff scientist in XTD-IDA/LANL.

03/2016 Dr. Daniel Livescu has become Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering.

12/16/2015 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave an invited talk at the AGU Fall Meeting , San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.

11/2015 Congratulations to Jon Baltzer who has been converted to staff scientist in CCS-2/LANL.

11/22-24/2015 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members and Alumni: Zhaorui Li, Jon Baltzer, Scott Wieland, Denis Aslangil, Yifeng Tian and Daniel Livescu at the 68th APS/DFD Annual Meeting , Boston, MA.

11/05/2015 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a graduate seminar at University of Pittsburgh, Mechanical and Materials Sciences Department.

10/08/2015 Congratulations to Denis Aslangil who has passed his Ph.D. general exam.

08/25-28/2015 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members Denis Aslangil, Jon Baltzer and Daniel Livescu at the 15th European Turbulence Conference , Delft, The Netherlands.

08/2015 Dr. Zhaorui Li has finished his postdoctoral appointment at LANL and is moving to Texas A&M University Corpus Christi as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations to Zhaorui!

06/16/2015 Livescu and Li, "Subgrid scale backscatter after the shock-turbulence interaction," and Tian, Jaberi, Li and Livescu, "Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulence and mixing in highly compressible flows," presentations at the 19th Biennial APS Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter , Tampa, FL, June 14-19, 2015.

05/07/2015 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a C-SWARM, University of Notre-Dame seminar, with the title "Physics of Rayleigh-Taylor instability from high resolution Direct Numerical Simulations."

04/27/2015 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a talk at the 1st Pan-American Congress on Computational Mechanics (PANACM15) , Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 27-29, 2015.

04/21/2015 Dr. Daniel Livescu gave a graduate seminar at University of California, Berkeley, with the title "An overview of recent results on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability."

03/2015 Dr. Daniel Livescu was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

02/09/2015 Dr. Don Daniel has joined the Fluid Dynamics Team as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

11/23-25/2014 Talks by the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team members Zhaorui Li, Jon Baltzer and Daniel Livescu at the 67th APS/DFD Annual Meeting , San Francisco, CA.

10/01/2014 Denis Aslangil has joined the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team to perform Direct Numerical Simulations of instability driven flows with complex acceleration histories. Denis is doing his Ph.D. at Lehigh University and will be jointly advised by Prof. Arindam Banerjee and Dr. Daniel Livescu.

09/23/2014 Dr. Daniel Livescu has joined the Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering as a Guest Editor.

09/01/2014 09/03/2014 Li and Livescu, "Generalized Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations for numerical simulations of flows with immiscible materials," and Livescu and Ryu, "DNS and LIA analysis of the shock-turbulence interaction," presentations at the 14th International Symposium on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing , San Francisco, CA, August 31 -September 5, 2014.

08/05/2014 A low Atwood number homogeneous variable-density buoyancy-driven turbulence dataset has been added to the Johns Hopkins Turbulence Databases. The dataset was generated by D. Livescu, with database ingest and web services by C. Canada (LANL), K. Kalin, R. Burns (JHU) & IDIES staff, and vizualization by J. Pulido (UC Davis). A description of the dataset can be found here: https://turbulence.pha.jhu.edu/docs/README-HBDT.pdf

08/05/2014 Dr. Livescu gave a talk at the 21st International Shock Interaction Symposium, Riga, Latvia, August 3-8, on "Turbulent vortex dynamics across a normal shock."

06/18/2014 Dr. Livescu organized a mini-symposium, on recent advances on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, at the 17th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, June 15 -19, 2014. The mini-symposium featured three talks from the CCS-2 Fluid Dynamics Team, by T. Wei and D. Livescu, Z. Li and D. Livescu, and D. Livescu.

04/05/2014 Dr. Livescu gave a Caltech (GALCIT) seminar with the title: "Spikes and bubbles in turbulent mixing: the Rayleigh-Taylor instability."


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