A new initiative to attract and support young researchers in
the field of flow, turbulence and combustion was launched by
ERCOFTAC in 2007. It is geared toward young doctoral
students and aims at exposing them to new and interesting
topics at the leading edge of scientific research and at
introducing them to the activities of ERCOFTAC. The workshop
is open to all doctoral students with a keen interest in the
specific topic of the workshop. Sixteen participants will be
invited and given full support beyond the cost of travel.
Active involvement, close mentoring and tutorial
presentations by invited guest speakers will be offered to
ensure a lasting impact on the participants' doctoral 
research.

Montestigliano
Scientific program 2008: Model Reduction

As simulations of complex fluid flow in increasingly
realistic geometries are becoming  more and more common, the
standard algorithms to analyze the flow quickly reach their
limit of convergence and efficiency. To counter this trend,
iterative schemes applied to large-scale simulations have
been developed to extract relevant information from the
fluid flow. These schemes rely on an approximation of
familiar concepts such as spectra or transfer functions to
assess the flow as to its stability and response behavior.
Alternatively, efforts to reduce the large-scale flow
simulations to equivalent dynamical system of significantly
reduced size have emerged and have led to efficient
algorithms. These algorithms are known as model reduction
algorithms.

In this Second Young ERCOFTAC workshop we will introduce
young scientists to the underlying principles of model
reduction. Guest scientists will give introductory tutorials
and supervise model reduction projects tied to each
participant's research interests.

Guest scientists for the Second Young ERCOFTAC workshop will
be Prof. Peter Schmid (Ecole Polytechnique) and Dr. Francois
Gallaire (Universite de Nice).