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Monday, June 1, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Welcome (Mérieux amphiteater) | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | › Measured three-dimensional flow structure in turbulents Rayleigh-Bénard convection in slender cylindrical cells - Heng-Dong Xi, Northwestern Polytechnical University | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Experimental investigation of thermal boundary layers in turbulent liquid metal convection - N Kim, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › Mechanism of Symmetry Restoration in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection - Ke-Qing Xia, Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Magneto-Coriolis-centrifugal convection in the Little Earth Experiment 2 - Susanne Horn, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | › The ultimate state of turbulent convection : myths, facts and open questions - Philippe Roche, Institut Néel | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Transition from a classical to ultimate regime of melting: analogies to Rayleigh–Bénard turbulence - Kevin Zhong, University of Twente | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Boundary layer dynamics in 3d Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Jörg Schumacher, Technische Universität Ilmenau | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Lagrangian multi-particle analysis of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Matti Ettel, TU Ilmenau | |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | › High Rayleigh Number Convection in Slender Cylinders for Prandtl Number of 1 - Janet Scheel, Occidental College | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | › Enhanced temperature-velocity coupling and coherent heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with polymers - Fang Xu, Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | › Effective transport coefficients in Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Martin Caelen, Laboratoire de Physique de l'École normale supérieure | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | › Temperature Reconstruction in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks from Tomo-, Stereo-, and Mono-PIV Data - Marie-Christine Volk, German Aerospace Center, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique | |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | Break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 16:30 - 17:45 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | › Melting and freezing in a convective cell - Enrico Calzavarini, Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | › Universal Scaling of Stellar Convective Fluctuations: Evidence for the Ultimate Regime of Convection - Lionel Bigot, Laboratoire LAGRANGE | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | › On heat-transfer efficiency scaling in Rayleigh–Bénard convection deduced from high-Rayleigh-number cryogenic experiments - Pavel Urban, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Instruments | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | › Critical wave speed governs heat transfer in buoyancy-driven turbulence under hybrid spatiotemporal modulation - Kai Leong Chong, School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, PR China | |
| 17:45 - 20:00 | Cocktail (Mérieux atrium) |
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Thermal convection (Descartes Amphitheater) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | › Regimes of Rotating Convective Turbulence - Jonathan Aurnou, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Wall modes and pattern formation in molten-salt magnetoconvection - Linkmann Moritz, School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › Turbulent convection in rotating slender cells - Ambrish Pandey, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Turbulent thermal convection at very small but finite Ekman numbers - Edgar Knobloch, University of California at Berkeley | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Log-lattice simulations of Rayleigh-Benard and rotating convection - Keaton Burns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flatiron Institute | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Thermal convection (Descartes Amphitheater) | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | › Boundary layer dynamics in Rayleigh-Bénard convection using Direct Numerical Simulations - Anne Sergent, COuplages Multiphysiques Et Transferts - LISN, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Flow configuration and its relation to the heat flux in a rectangular convection box - Stephan Weiss, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, German Aerospace Center | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Learning to traverse convective flows at moderate to high Rayleigh numbers - Ao Xu, Institute of Extreme Mechanics, School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Measured multiple flow states in turbulent thermal convection with aspect ratio 10 - Chen Xin, Northwestern Polytechnical University [Xi'an] | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | › Direct numerical simulations of turbulent Rayleigh--Bénard convection with polymers in a cylindrical cell - Jiaxing Song, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | › Experimental studies of liquid metal convection: Effects of aspect ratio and rotation - Yi-Chao XIE, Xi’an Jiaotong University |
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | › Thermal convection in polar environments - Louis-Alexandre Couston, Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Saturation adjustment in a cloud-topped convective boundary layer - Robert Hartmann, Meteorology, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › A laboratory dry model of cyclone eye formation - Michael Le Bars, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Scaling and aggregation in three-dimensional moist convection - Chris Howland, University College Dublin | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Turbulent convection on the tilted f-plane - Benjamin Miquel, École Centrale de Lyon | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | › Impact of Temperature- and Salinity-driven Convection on Ocean Circulation: Insights from Direct Numerical Simulations - Catherine Vreugdenhil, University of Melbourne, Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Aspect ratio dependence of laminar horizontal convection - Giuseppe Vacca, Physics of Fluids Department, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Generation of helicity by salt-fingers - Wouter Bos, Laboratoire de Mecanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Suppression of Rayleigh-Bénard convection and restratification by horizontal convection - Florian Rein | |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | › Melting with complications - Sander Huisman, University of Twente | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | › Multistability in Centrifugal Convection - Zhongzhi Yao, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | › The global flow structure in a Rayleigh-Bénard cell of aspect ratio Γ=3 - Ronald du Puits, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institute of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | › Scale invariance and energy spectra in geostrophic convective turbulence - Guang-Yu Ding, Research Institute of Intelligent Complex Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Center for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research and Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Coffee break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | › Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in highly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Michal Macek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Instruments | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | › A Persistent Clock in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection - Lázaro Martínez-Ortíz, Fluids and Flows, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | › Turbulent thermal convection across a stable liquid-liquid interface - Penger TONG, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | › Turbulent mixed convection in supraglacial channels - Corentin Prados | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | › Beyond Idealized Models: Experimental Characterization of Indoor Airflows in Educational Settings - Ostilla Monico Rodolfo, Universidad de Cádiz = University of Cádiz |
Thursday, June 4, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | › Thermally driven cross-shore flows in stratified lakes - Damien Bouffard, Eawag, University of Lausanne | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Buoyancy-driven flow regimes for a melting vertical ice cylinder in saline water - Detlef Lohse, University of Twente [Twente] | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › Physical mechanism behind the early onset of the ultimate state in supergravitational centrifugal thermal convection - Lei REN, Tsinghua University [Beijing] | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Stochastic Lorenz dynamics and wind reversals in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection - Yanni Bills, Yale University | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Are there wallmodes in tangent cylinders? - Alban Potherat, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University (UK) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | › Convection in planetary mantles - Anne Davaille, Laboratoire FAST, CNRS / University Paris-Saclay | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Compressible convection in large solid planets - Yanick Ricard, École normale supérieure de Lyon | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Formation of superswells and domes in layered turbulent convection systems - Xiaojue Zhu, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Ultimate heat transfer in convective turbulence with wall permeability - Genta Kawahara, University of Osaka | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | › Interactions between turbulent convection and internal waves - Julien Salort, Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | › Heat Transport Scaling in Rayleigh–Bénard Convection: From Deterministic Bounds to Stochastic Models - Camilla Nobili, University of Surrey | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | › Direct numerical simulations and multiple states of Taylor-Couette flow under realisitic boundary conditions - Marvin Kriening, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | › Suppressing Wall Modes in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection - Herman Clercx, Fluids and Flows, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | › Multiple hysteresis loops in a quasi-1-D RBC cell - Lu Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 16:30 - 17:45 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | › Experimental investigations of turbulent liquid metal Rayleigh-Bénard convection in various geometries and aspect ratios - Sven Eckert | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | › Dynamo Fields in Simulations of Receding Turbulent Rotating Convection - Jiah Jin, Northwestern University [Evanston] | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | › Transient states depend on the dimensionality of thermal convection - Katepalli Sreenivasan, Polytechnic Institute of New York University | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | › Turbulent Prandtl number for Rayleigh-Bénard convection at very low Prandtl numbers - Shashwat Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi |
Friday, June 5, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | › Heat transport and flow-state transition as Rayleigh-Bénard convection interacts with a self-proposed rigid rotor - Jin-Qiang Zhong, Fudan university | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Thermomagnetic convection in a ferrofluid in a cylindrical annulus under magnetic field and a radial temperature gradient - Innocent Mutabazi, Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes, LOMC, UMR CNRS 6294, Université Le Havre Normandie | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › On the absence of the ultimate regime in turbulent thermal convection - Mahendra Verma, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Stability, compressible Rossby waves and failure of the anelastic model - Thierry Alboussiere, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break (Mérieux atrium) | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Thermal convection (Mérieux amphiteater) | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | › Unifying constitutive law of vibroconvective turbulence in microgravity - Quan Zhou, Shanghai University | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | › Enhancing the heat flux of turbulent convection by heterogeneous porous layer - Yantao Yang, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems and Department of Mechanics, School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Duration of the thermal lunar overturn - Line Colin, LGL-TPE | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › An experimental study of rotating thermal convection with latitudinal variation - Yun-Bing Hu, Centre for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research and Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University |
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