Since the ?rst meeting in Lyon in 1986, the biannual European Turbulence Conferences have provided an informative survey of the international e?orts in understanding turbulence in its fundamental and applied aspects. Now integrated into the conference cycles coordinated by the European Mechanics Society the meetings provide a regular forum for the exchange of ideas and the discussion of the latest developments. The more recent conferences in Barcelona (2000), Southampton (2002), Trondheim (2004), and Porto (2007) have attracted several hundred participants from 30 and more countries. The 12th meeting in this series, ETC 12, which was held in Marburg September 7-10, 2009, continues this tradition. Researchers from 34 countries submitted 336abstractstotheconference. Thenumberofsubmissionsissomewhatlower than for the Porto or Barcelona meetings, but in line with the previous ones in Northern Europe. The contributions that were presented in Marburg were selected by the international advisory board for the European Turbulence Conferences. The committee was chaired by Professor Arne V. Johannson (Stockholm) and consisted of Professors Helge I. Andersson (Trondheim), Konrad Bajer (W- saw), Luca Biferale (Rome), Claude Cambon (Lyon), Hans-Hermann Fe- holz(Berlin), PeterDavidson(Cambridge, UK), YuriKachanov(Novosibirsk), Detlef Lohse (Twente), Jose L. Palma (Porto), Jean-Francois Pinton (Lyon) and the local organizer. Impressedbythehighqualityoftheabstracts the committee selected 250 for oral presentation, corresponding to a record number of almost 75% of the submissions. In addition, 70 papers were selected for presentation in a poster and seminar session. These numbers attest to the healthy state of the ?eld and the reputation the conferences have achiev

Lagrangian aspects.- Lagrangian modeling and properties of particles with inertia.- Effect of Fax#x00E9;n forces on acceleration statistics of material particles in turbulent flow.- Lagrangian analysis of turbulent convection.- Linear and angular dynamics of an inertial particle in turbulence.- Collision rate between heavy particles in a model turbulent flow.- From cloud condensation nuclei to cloud droplets: a turbulent model.- Lagrangian statistics of inertial particles in turbulent flow.- Lagrangian statistics of two#x2013;dimensional turbulence in a square container.- Measurement of Lagrangian Particle Trajectories by Digital in-line Holography.- 3-D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) in gas flows using coloured tracer particles.- Two-particle dispersion in 2D inverse cascade turbulence and its telegraph equation model.- Numerical simulations of particle dispersion in stratified flows.- Instability and Transition.- Experimental study of the von K#x00E1;rm#x00E1;n flow from = 10 to 10: spontaneous symmetry breaking and turbulent bifurcations.- Flow reversals in a vertical channel.- Linear Instability of Streamwise Corner Flow.- DNS of turbulent plane Couette flow with emphasis on turbulent stripe.- Geometry of state space in plane Couette flow.- Linear and nonlinear instabilities of sliding Couette flow.- Localization in plane Couette edge dynamics.- Nonlinear optimal perturbations in plane Couette flow.- Order parameter in laminar-turbulent patterns.- Pattern formation in low Reynolds number plane Couette flow.- Quasi-stationary and chaotic convection in low rotating spherical shells.- Linear stability of 2D rough channels.- Transient turbulent bursting in enclosed flows.- On New Localized Vortex Solutions in the Couette-Ekman Layer.- Shear instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow.- Particle Tracking Velocimetry in Transitional Plane Couette Flow.- Experimental study of coherent structures in turbulent pipe flow.- Forced localized turbulence in pipe flows.- From localized to expanding turbulence.- Influence of test-rigs on the laminar-to-turbulent transition of pipe flows.- Interaction of turbulent spots in pipe flow.- Large-scale transitional dynamics in pipe flow.- Nonlinear coherent structures in a square duct.- Quantitative measurement of the life time of turbulence in pipe flow.- Experimental investigation of turbulent patch evolution in spatially steady boundary layers.- Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks.- Linear generation of multiple time scales by 3D unstable perturbations.- Convection at very high Rayleigh number: signature of transition from a micro-thermometer inside the flow.- Estimating local instabilities for irregular flows in the differentially heated rotating annulus.- Search for the #x201C;ultimate state#x201D; in turbulent Rayleigh-B#x00E9;nard convection.- Rayleigh#x2013;Taylor instability in two dimensions and phase-field method.- Split energy cascade in quasi-2D turbulence.- Stabililty and laminarisation of turbulent rotating channel flow.- The vortical flow pattern exhibited by the channel flow on a rotating system just past transition under the influence of the Coriolis force.- Transient evolution and high stratification scaling in horizontal mixing layers.- Control of turbulent flows.- Toward cost-effective Control of Wall Turbulence for Skin Friction Drag Reduction.- Active control of turbulent boundary layer using an array of piezo-ceramic actuators.- Flat plate turbulent boundary-layer control using vertical LEBUs.- Estimation of the spanwise wall shear stress based on upstream information for wall turbulence control.- Interactions between vortex generators and a flat plate boundary layer. Application to the control of separated flows..- Modulated global mode of a controlled wake.- Swirl effects in turbulent pipe flow.- Control of an axisymmetric turbulent wake by a pulsed jet.- Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent mixed convection in enclosures with heated obstacles.-

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