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What is Turbulence and Why Do We Care? Presented by Dr. Donald Webster - January 23, 2013
In the first webinar of this three-part series, Dr. Webster takes us, step-by-step, through the physical aspects of turbulence, something we see everywhere. We learn how turbulence works in the world, and how it is observed and measured. In his talk, Don shows us the scales at which turbulence occurs by using images and videos of things familiar to us: worldwide oceanic currents, breaking waves and even crabs trying to find food. The purpose of this webinar is to not only break down the tough physics behind this ever-present phenomenon, but to set the stage for observing the interaction of biological organisms with turbulent flow. These topics will be introduced in follow-up webinars by Dr. Jeannette Yen (“From Cosmos to Copepods - How Does Turbulence Impact Different Scales?”) and Dr. Peter Jumars (“How Does Turbulence Shift Advantage For the Tiniest Ocean Creatures?”). Webinar Archive You can watch a video of the webinar below. Below the video is Dr. Webster's interactive concept map so that you may follow along with the presentation. Concept Map This webinar features a map created by Dr. Webster entitled, "What is Turbulence and Why Do We Care About It?". You can explore this map in the window below, or save it to your own CLIMB account by clicking on the light blue wrench in the upper left corner and selecting Copy Map to My Maps. About the Presenter
Dr. Donald Webster Dr. Donald Webster received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. After a postdoctoral research position at Stanford University and a non-tenure track faculty position at the University of Minnesota, he joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in September 1997. Dr. Webster's research expertise lies in environmental fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on the influence of fluid mechanics and turbulence on biological systems.Georgia Tech This webinar series was supported by the National Science Foundation grant #OCE-0724744 “CMG Collaborative Research: Interactions of Phytoplankton with Dissipative Vortices.” PI: P. Jumars, Co-PI Karp-Boss. |
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