Presentations

T. A. Zaki – Invited
American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), Chicago, USA, 2020
“From limited observations to the state of turbulence: Fundamental difficulties of flow reconstruction”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, 2020 “Decoding Observations of Wall-Bounded Turbulence”

T. A. Zaki – Plenary
IUTAM symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, London, UK, 2019
“Tackling the Uncertainty of Transition Prediction in High-Speed Boundary Layers”

T. A. Zaki and A. Esteghamatian – Invited
“Particle-laden viscoelastic turbulence in channel flow” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meet- ing” (Seattle, USA) 2019.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2019 “Vorticity dynamics in viscoelastic turbulence”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Harvard University, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, 2019 “The onset of chaos in shear flows”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Fluid flows, from Graphene to planet atmospheres, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (17-28 De- cember, 2018). “The dynamics of vorticity and polymer torque in viscoelastic shear flows”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Northeastern University, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2018 “Data-Enabled Discovery in Transition Research”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Texas Tech University, Department of Mechanical Engineering 2018 “Precursors of Wall Turbulence”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics 2018 “Harbingers of Turbulence in Boundary Layers”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Workshop: Control of Turbulent Friction Drag, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2018 “Dynamical and structural modifications of boundary layers by free-stream turbulence”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Workshop: Elastic Turbulence, Princeton University, Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics, 2018 “Nonlocal vorticity amplification in viscoelastic Couette flow over wavy surfaces”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Mini-symposium on Complex Flows: Dynamics of Viscoelastic and Inertioelastic flows, Okinawa Insti- tute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan 2018
“Natural transition and turbulence in viscoelastic channel flow”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Japan Science and Technology Agency and National Science Foundation (JST-NSF) Big Data Joint Workshop, Tokyo 2017 “A Big-Data Computational Laboratory for the Optimization of Olfactory Search Algorithms in Turbulent Environments”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
61st Workshop on Investigation and Control of Transition to Turbulence, University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan 2017 “Theoretical and data-enabled predictions of boundary-layer transition”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan 2017 “Interfaces in transitional and turbulent boundary layers”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan 2017 “Modulation of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface by energetic turbulence structures”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit, Okinawa, Japan 2017 “Large-scale motion in wall-bounded turbulence”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Kyoto, Japan 2017 “Large-scale structures in transitional and turbulent boundary layers”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Osaka University, Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, Osaka, Japan 2017 “Signature of large-scale motions on turbulent/non-turbulent interface in boundary layers”

T. A. Zaki – Plenary
The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers (CSME) International Congress, Kelowna 2016 “High-fidelity simulations and predictive theory of boundary-layer transition”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Japan Science and Technology Agency and National Science Foundation (JST-NSF) Big Data Joint Workshop, Tokyo 2016 “A Big-Data Computational Laboratory for the Optimization of Olfactory Search Algorithms in Turbulent Environments”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 2017 “Transition to tturbulence in boundary layers buffeted by free-stream disturbances”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Okinawa Institute of Technology, Fluid Mechanics Unit, 2016 “Boundary layer transition beneath free-stream turbulence: Linear precursors of nonlinear breakdown”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, 2016 “Primary and secondary instabilities of transitional boundary layers beneath free-stream turbulence”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Nagoya University, Center for Computational Science, 2016 “Vorticity wave propagation and reverse-Orr amplification in polymeric shear flows” 

T. A. Zaki and J. Page – Invited
Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2016 “Splitting vortices and re-energizing streaks: The dynamics of vortical disturbances in viscoelastic shear flows”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2016 “Linear analysis and nonlinear simulations of boundary-layer transition”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
The Pennsylvania State University, The Fluid Dynamics Research Consortium, 2014 “Inner and outer interactions in transitional wall-bounded shear flows”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
McGill University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2014 “Laminar-turbulent interfaces”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Minnesota, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, 2014 “Laminar-to-turbulence transition: Rare events and their localized instabilities”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Cincinnati, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 2014 “Prediction and control of breakdown to turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows”

T. A. Zaki – Invited
United Technologies Research Center, Thermal & Fluid Sciences Department, 2014 “Boundary-layer transition in turbomachinery flows”

T. A. Zaki – Plenary
University of Maryland, Burgers Program Annual Fluid Dynamics Symposium, 2014
“Boundary layer transition beneath free-stream turbulence: Linear precursors of nonlinear breakdown”.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Michigan State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2014 “Predictive theory for inner and outer instabilities of Klebanoff distortions”.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Mechanical Engineering, Korea, 2013 “High-fidelity simulations of transition to turbulence in a compressor cascade”.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Mechanical Engineering, Korea, 2013 “Breakdown to turbulence in boundary layers: New insights from theory and simulations”.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
University of Tokyo, Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, Japan, 2013 “On the onset and evolution of localized turbulent spots in transition”.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
GE Global Research Center, Aero Systems Organization (ASO), Niskayuna, 2013 “Free-stream turbulence and wake induced transition in turbomachinery flows”.

T. A. Zaki
Johns Hopkins University, Center of Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics, 2013 “Streaks in viscoelastic Couette flow”.

L. Nicolaou and T.A. Zaki, “An implicit immersed boundary method for moving body problems in curvilinear coordinates” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Pittsburgh, USA) 2013.

P. Ray and T.A. Zaki, “Absolute instability in viscoelastic mixing layers” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Pittsburgh, USA) 2013.

J. Page and T.A. Zaki, “On the origin and evolution of streaks in polymeric shear flows” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Pittsburgh, USA) 2013.

A. Agarwal, L. Brandt and T.A. Zaki, “Localized disturbances in channel flow of a viscoelastic fluid” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Pittsburgh, USA) 2013.

J. Hwang, J. Lee, S.Y. Jung, T.A. Zaki and H.J. Sung, “Spatial properties of large-scale structure in a turbulent boundary layer” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Pittsburgh, USA) 2013.

L. Nicolaou and T.A. Zaki
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Japan, 2013.
“Predictive simulations of the respiratory airways using a robust IB method for moving boundaries”.

K. Nolan and T.A. Zaki, “Development of Turbulent Spots in Bypass Transition” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (California, USA) 2012.

J. Lee, S.Y. Jung, H.J.Sung and T.A. Zaki, “The influence of viscosity stratification on boundary-layer turbulence” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (California, USA) 2012.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Johns Hopkins University, Center of Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics, 2012 “Receptivity, instability and breakdown to turbulence in boundary layers”.

T. A. Zaki – Plenary
“From streaks to spots and on to turbulence: Exploring the dynamics of boundary layer transition” in “The 9th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements”, (Greece) 2012.

L. Nicolaou and T. A. Zaki
Integrated Simulation of Living Matter Group, RIKEN, Japan, 2012 “Subject-specific prediction of aerosol deposition in the extrathoracic airways”.

T. A. Zaki
Kyoto University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Japan, 2012
“A hierarchical computational approach to multi-scale interfacial dynamics”.

L. Cheung and T. A. Zaki, “Computation of two-fluid shear flows with complex interfacial topology using nonlinear PSE” in the “International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flow” (State College PA, USA) 2012.

K. Nolan and T.A. Zaki, “Conditional sampling of bypass transition in pressure gradient boundary layers” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Maryland, USA) 2011.

M. J. P. Hack and T.A. Zaki, “Secondary instability analysis of pre-transitional streaks in boundary layers” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Maryland, USA) 2011.

S. Y. Jung and T.A. Zaki, “Numerical simulations of two-fluid boundary layers beneath free-stream turbulence” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Maryland, USA) 2011.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2011.
“On Shear sheltering and the bypass route to boundary layer turbulence”.

T. A. Zaki – Invited
Cambridge University, Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), UK, 2011. “Discrete, continuous and Görtler modes in transitional boundary layers”.

T. A. Zaki, L-U. Schrader and L. Brandt
“Receptivity, Growth and Breakdown of Görtler Vortices”, in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Long Beach, USA) 2010.

P. Hack, L. Burini and T. A. Zaki
“Bypass transition delay via oscillating Stokes layers”, in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Long Beach, USA) 2010.

L. Burini and T. A. Zaki
“Non-linear evolution of vortical disturbances in two-fluid boundary layers”, in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Long Beach, USA) 2010.

L. Cheung and T. A. Zaki
“The development of nonlinear instability waves in two-fluid shear flows with complex interfacial topology”, in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Long Beach, USA) 2010.

S. Saha and T. A. Zaki
“On the transient amplification of vortical disturbances in sheared wall-films”, in the “International Conference on Multiscale Complex Fluid Flows and Interfacial Phenomena – MULTIFLOW 2010” (Belgium) 2010.

T.A. Zaki – Invited
The University of Tokyo, The International Specialist Workshop on Open-Loop versus Closed-Loop Control of Wall Turbulence, Japan, 2010.
“Physics-based strategies for transition delay and turbulent drag reduction”.

T.A. Zaki
“On the structure of vortical modes and the non-linear evolution of instability waves in two-fluid shear flows” in “The Euromech Colloquium 517 on Interfaces and Inhomogeneous Turbulence” (University College London, UK) 2010.

T.A. Zaki – Invited
The University of Tokyo, The 15th Global Center of Excellence of Mechanical Systems Innovations GMSI, Japan, 2009.
“Primary and secondary instabilities in pressure-gradient boundary layers”.

L-U. Schrader, L. Brandt, D. Henningson and T.A. Zaki, “Receptivity of Görtler flow” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Minneapolis, USA) 2009.

T.A. Zaki – Plenary
“Vortical mode interactions with single- and two-fluid boundary layers” in “The 13th Annual Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering” (Bangkok, Thailand) 2009.

T.A. Zaki — Invited
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Department of Mechanics, Stockholm, 2007. “The many routes to boundary-layer turbulence in adverse pressure gradient”.

Y. Liu, T.A. Zaki and P.A. Durbin, “Boundary Layer Transition by Interaction of Discrete and Continuous Modes” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Salt Lake City, USA) 2007.

T.A. Zaki, “The influence of free-stream vortical disturbances on transitional and separated boundary layers” in “Air Force Office of Scientific Research Joint Program Review” (Long Beach, USA) 2007.

T.A. Zaki and P.A. Durbin, “Continuous mode transition” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Seattle, USA) 2004.

T.A. Zaki — Invited
Cambridge University, Department of Engineering, UK, 2005. “Computer simulations of continuous mode transition”.

T.A. Zaki — Invited
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Hydromechanics, (Germany) 2005 “Instances of the bypass route to boundary layer turbulence”.

T.A. Zaki and P.A. Durbin, “Scalable simulations of transitional flows”, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, (USA) 2004.

T.A. Zaki and P.A. Durbin, “Orr-Sommerfeld mode interactions and bypass transition”, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, (USA) 2003.

S.K. Ghosh, T.A. Zaki, J.G. Brasseur and P.J. Kahrilas, “A mathematical model of fluid flow in fundoplication” in “The American Physical Society DFD Meeting” (Washington DC, USA) 2000.

T.A. Zaki, P.J. Kahrilas, S.K. Ghosh, R.P. Tatum, R.J. Joehl and J.G. Brasseur
“Mechanical consequences of tightness and length of wrap in fundoplication” in “DDW Conference” 2000 – Abstract of Distinction Award by The American Gastroenterological Association.