Multiscale Complex Fluid Flows and Interfacial Phenomena

Date

Oct 29, 2012 - Nov 1, 2012

Time

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Speaker

Detlef Lohse, Serafim Kalliadasis, Howard A. Stone, Uwe Thiele

Affiliation

University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands; Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering, London, UK; Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, USA ; Loughborough University, Mathemati

Series

MPI-PKS Workshops, Seminare und Konferenzen

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Physik

Host

Mandy Lochar

Description

Many flows of simple and complex liquids and, soft matter in general, involve deformable interfaces between different phases and interactions with solid rigid or deformable substrates. The presence of interfaces makes such flows inherently nonlinear, often subject to instabilities that may trigger transitions to complex spatiotemporal behaviour. Several other challenges include the presence of hierarchies of nested time and length scales while solid boundaries result in surface forces and wettability effects whose precise role is not fully understood, in particular, for complex liquids. The workshop will bring together experts on complex fluid flows from different disciplines, including mathematics, engineering, physics and chemistry. They will report on the latest experiments, theoretical advances and technological applications to foster a discussion of the underlying conceptional challenges.

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