About The Geometry of Flows

A wide range of physical systems demonstrate fractal-like scaling behavior on mesoscales: atmospheric clouds, free boundary layers in both astrophysical and geophysical flows, burning fronts in both combustion chambers and supernova deflagration fronts, as well as biological systems like our lungs.

The broad and ambitious goal of this initiative is to understand how mesoscale dynamics determine structures with a particular focus on boundaries and surfaces.  A few of the many questions to be addressed include:

• How do physical flows determine the geometry of mesoscale structures?
• What is the relationship between the properties of the flow and the dimension of the structure?
• How do these structures differ for passive tracers, for active tracers that affect the flow, and for the level sets within the flow? 

This initiative brings together mathematicians, physicists and astrophysicists, and computational scientists across different disciplines at institutions around the world to address these and other challenges.  Click on the links below to learn more about the people and the science involved.