Eberhard Bodenschatz How Can the Statistical Properties of a Turbulent Flow Be Calculated?
Eberhard Bodenschatz is Chair of the Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section and Member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society as well as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany. Bodenschatz is also an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University (USA) where he has held several faculty positions in experimental physics since 1992. His research interests include self-organizing complex systems and electrophysiological turbulence. Bodenschatz is a recipient of the Stanley Corrsin Award of the American Physical Society and the Alfred P. Sloan foundation fellowship among others. In 2016, he became also a Member of the Board of the German Physical Society.
Area of Research
Biocomplexity, Self-Organizing Complex Systems, Electrophysiological Turbulence
since 2014
Chair of the Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section
Max Planck Society
since 2007
Full Professor of Physics
University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
since 2005
since 2005
Professor
Cornell University
Department of Physics & Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2012-2014
Deputy Chair and Chair Elect of the Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section
Max Planck Society
2011-2013
Managing Director
Max Planck Society (more details)
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
2005-2007
Managing Director
Max Planck Society (more details)
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
2003-2005
Scientific Member
Max Planck Society (more details)
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
2003-2005
Full Professor of Physics
Cornell University
1998-2002
Associate Professor of Physics
Cornell University
1999-2000
Visiting Scholar
University of California, San Diego
1995
1992-1998
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cornell University
1989-1992
Postdoctoral Associate
University of California, Santa Barbara
1989
PhD in Theoretical Physics
University of Bayreuth (Universität Bayreuth)
1985
Diploma in Theoretical Physics
University of Bayreuth (Universität Bayreuth)
- American Physical Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
- Institute of Physics
- European Mechanics Society
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Prizes
- Stanley Corrsin Award of the American Physical Society (2014)
- Publication Price of the Deutsche Museum (2012)
Fellowships
- Linné FLOW Centre Lecture, KTH (2013)
- Crocco Colloquium Lectureship, Princeton University (2011)
- Einstein Colloquium Lectureship, Weizmann Institute (2007)
- Creativity Extension NSF-PHY for Turbulence Research (2003)
- Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation (1995)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1993)
- Research Fellowship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1989-1991)
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Max Planck Society
"The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The more than 15,000 publications each year in internationally renowned scientific journals are proof of the outstanding research work conducted at Max Planck Institutes – and many of those articles are among the most-cited publications in the relevant field." (Source)
Institute
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
"The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) belongs to the Max Planck Society. Its research focus is in physics, with strong interdisciplinary aspects. It emerged in 2004 from the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics. In 2011 it moved from the Bunsenstrasse in Göttingen to the Max Planck Campus at Fassberg, located between the main town of Göttingen and its suburb Nikolausberg. The MPIDS is now right next to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, with which it already had and continues to have cooperations in interdisciplinary areas between physics, biology and medicine. There is also a close connection with the Faculty of Physics at the University of Göttingen.
The MPIDS consists of three departments. Besides that, there are presently three independent Max Planck Research Groups at the institute." (Source)
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For more than one hundred years, scientists have been working to uncover how turbulent flows occur. This would enable them among other things to predict how pollutants spread in water or how pollen travel in air. As EBERHARD BODENSCHATZ explains in this video, new insights are offered by an approach based on Lagrangian Particle Tracking Technique: The researchers focused on a single particle in a fluid and followed it through the flow, using tracers both numerically and experimentally. By tracking more than three thousand particles at a given time, the researchers derived statistics of the particle motion in the flow. In this way, they are able to predict turbulences in the flow and prove that these turbulences are irreversible. This irreversibility, in turn, shows that vortex stretching is really at the basis of a turbulent flow.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10273
Lagrangian View of Time Irreversibility of Fluid Turbulence
- Haitao Xu, Alain Pumir and Eberhard Bodenschatz
- Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy
- Published in 2016
