The international conference “Vortices and coherent structures: from ocean to microfluids”, Vladivostok, Russia, 28–31 August 2017

Abstract

The international conference "Vortices and coherent structures: from ocean to microfluids" was held at the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok (Russia) from August 28 to August 31, 2017. The event gathered experimentalists and theoreticians, oceanographers and physicists, with a common interest in observing and modelling fluid flows in different media, from the ocean to laboratory flows. It was a fruitful idea to bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds to benefit from a vigorous discussion of concepts across different disciplines in oceanography and hydrodynamics. Keywords Vortices • Waves • Coherent structures • Transport and mixing The present Topical Collection "Vortices, waves and coherent structures" contains 13 internationally peer-reviewed papers from participants of the conference providing an updated perspective on modelling a variety of vortex and wave motions, observation and simulation of transport and mixing processes in the ocean, observation and modelling of laboratory flows and novel tools for describing these processes. More details on these aspects are discussed in this preface. The serious hopes and prospects for further progress in understanding vortex and wave motions in geophysical, laboratory and model flows are essentially related to combined use of mathematical methods, computer simulation, laboratory experiments, satellite and in situ measurements. Such a multidisciplinary collaborations have led to interesting results that allow us to study the dynamical processes from