RBC2026 : 10th International Conference on Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence

1-5 Jun 2026 Lyon (France)

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Monday, June 1, 2026

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Welcome

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8:45 - 9:00 (15min)

Welcome

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›9:00 (1h30)

Thermal convection

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9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)

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› Measured three-dimensional flow structure in turbulents Rayleigh-Bénard convection in slender cylindrical cells - Heng-Dong Xi, Northwestern Polytechnical University 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Experimental investigation of thermal boundary layers in turbulent liquid metal convection - N Kim, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Mechanism of Symmetry Restoration in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection - Ke-Qing Xia, Southern University of Science and Technology 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Magneto-Coriolis-centrifugal convection in the Little Earth Experiment 2 - Susanne Horn, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems 10:00-10:15 (15min)

›10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

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10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

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›11:00 (1h15)

Thermal convection

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11:00 - 12:15 (1h15)

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› The ultimate state of turbulent convection : myths, facts and open questions - Philippe Roche, Institut Néel 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Transition from a classical to ultimate regime of melting: analogies to Rayleigh–Bénard turbulence - Kevin Zhong, University of Twente 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Boundary layer dynamics in 3d Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Jörg Schumacher, Technische Universität Ilmenau 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› Lagrangian multi-particle analysis of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Matti Ettel, TU Ilmenau 12:00-12:15 (15min)

›12:15 (1h45)

Lunch

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12:15 - 14:00 (1h45)

Lunch

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›14:00 (1h15)

Thermal convection

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14:00 - 15:15 (1h15)

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› High Rayleigh Number Convection in Slender Cylinders for Prandtl Number of 1 - Janet Scheel, Occidental College 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Enhanced temperature-velocity coupling and coherent heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with polymers - Fang Xu, Southern University of Science and Technology 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Effective transport coefficients in Rayleigh-Bénard convection - Martin Caelen, Laboratoire de Physique de l'École normale supérieure 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› 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 15:00-15:15 (15min)

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Break

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15:15 - 16:30 (1h15)

Break

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16:30 - 17:45 (1h15)

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› Melting and freezing in a convective cell - Enrico Calzavarini, Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Universal Scaling of Stellar Convective Fluctuations: Evidence for the Ultimate Regime of Convection - Lionel Bigot, Laboratoire LAGRANGE 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› 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 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› 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 17:30-17:45 (15min)

›17:45 (2h15)

Cocktail

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17:45 - 20:00 (2h15)

Cocktail

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