Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Rotating Flows

Presentations

• Testing Asymptotic Scaling Trends in Laboratory-Numerical Rotating Convection and Dynamo Experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 12:50 PM – Nov. 25, 2025, 1:03 PM

  Publication: This work is still in progress, but builds nicely off of: <br>Aurnou, Jonathan M., Susanne Horn, and Keith Julien. "Connections between nonrotating, slowly rotating, and rapidly rotating turbulent convection transport scalings." Physical Review Research 2.4 (2020): 043115.

  Presenters

  • Jonathan M Aurnou

    University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Jonathan M Aurnou

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Paula Wulff

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Jewel A Abbate

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Hao Cao

    University of California, Los Angeles

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• Nonequilibrium continuous transition in rotating turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 1:03 PM – Nov. 25, 2025, 1:16 PM

  Publication: 1. Lohani, C.S., Nayak, S.K., Seshasayanan, K. and Shukla, V., 2025. Nonequilibrium continuous transition in a fast rotating turbulence. Europhysics Letters, 149(5), p.53002

  Presenters

  • Chandra Shekhar Lohani

    IIT Kharagpur, India

  Authors

  • Chandra Shekhar Lohani

    IIT Kharagpur, India

  • Suraj Kumar K Nayak

    IIT Kgp

  • Kannabiran Seshasayanan

    IIT Madras

  • Vishwanath Shukla

    IIT Kgp

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• Probing quasigeostrophic turbulence via complex networks

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 1:16 PM – Nov. 25, 2025, 1:29 PM

  Publication: Probing quasigeostrophic turbulence via complex networks (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.054402)

  Presenters

  • Krishna Priya V R

    IIT Kharagpur

  Authors

  • Krishna Priya V R

    IIT Kharagpur

  • Snehal S Patil

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  • rajaram lakkaraju

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

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• Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasts through Vorticity-based Diffusion Adjustments in the Planetary Boundary Layer

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 1:29 PM – Nov. 25, 2025, 1:42 PM

  Publication: Khondaker, M. M. H., and M. Momen, 2024: Vorticity-based Adjustment of Diffusion in Planetary Boundary Layer Schemes for Improving Hurricane Forecasts of Weather Models. Submitted and currently under review.

  Presenters

  • Md Murad Hossain Khondaker

    University of Houston

  Authors

  • Md Murad Hossain Khondaker

    University of Houston

  • Mostafa Momen

    University of Houston

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• ToRoCo: 3D reconstruction of coherent flow structures in laboratory rotating convection with topography

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 1:42 PM – Nov. 25, 2025, 1:55 PM

  Presenters

  • Amirhooshang Zeraatkardevin

    University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Amirhooshang Zeraatkardevin

    University of Rochester

  • Xinyu Si

    University of Rochester

  • Mohammad Y Abdelshafy

    University of Rochester

  • Athena Summers

    University of Rochester

  • Brandon Scortino

    University of Rochester

  • Sayes Abdulwahab

    University of Rochester

  • Jonathan S Cheng

    US Naval Academy

  • Douglas H Kelley

    University of Rochester

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• Helicity in rotating convection with topography: 3D Lagrangian particle tracking in ToRoCo

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 1:55 PM – Nov. 25, 2025, 2:08 PM

  Presenters

  • Xinyu Si

    University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Xinyu Si

    University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester

  • Mohammad Yasser Abdelshafy

    University of Rochester

  • Athena Summers

    University of Rochester

  • Amirhooshang Zeraatkardevin

    University of Rochester

  • Brandon Scortino

    University of Rochester

  • Sayes Abdulwahab

    University of Rochester

  • Jonathan S Cheng

    US Naval Academy

  • Douglas H Kelley

    University of Rochester

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