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International Workshop on Numerical Methods in Non-Newtonian Flows 2010 (13/06/10 - 16/06/10)
Details:
The International Workshops on Numerical Methods in Non-Newtonian Flows
have been held roughly biennially, alternating between North America and
Europe since 1979. The next
installment in this series of workshops will be held in Northampton,
Massachusetts USA on June 13-16 2010, co-organized by Mike Graham of U.
Wisconsin-Madison and Jonathan Rothstein of U. Mass-Amherst. The
objective of IWNMNF-2010 is to bring together researchers at the
forefront of computational and experimental non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
and rheology to discuss challenges, recent progress, future directions
and emerging applications.
Topics covered in recent workshops include of course numerical methods
for solution of differential and integral constitutive models from
continuum descriptions of flowing complex fluids as well as also
mathematical analysis of models of flowing complex fluids and the
phenomenological and statistical mechanical framework for describing
them.
An important aspect of the workshops in recent years has been mesoscopic
and multiscale simulation methods. Topics have included
Brownian/Stokesian dynamics approaches for hydrodynamically interacting
polymer molecules in solution, dissipative particle dynamics simulations,
multiscale methods such as Brownian configuration fields and atomistic
approaches to polymer dynamics using MC and NEMD simulations in
generalized ensembles.
Finally, we emphasize that the workshop addresses not just numerical
methods but also the natural phenomena and engineering processes whose
prediction and understanding motivate those methods. Materials of
interest have ranged from polymer solutions and melts to liquid crystals
to suspensions of carbon nanotubes to micellar surfactant solutions to
blood. Phenomena include turbulent drag reduction, flow instabilities and
nonlinear dynamics, flows with complex geometries, multiphase flows,
shear banding, extensional rheometry and many more. Despite the name of
the workshop, presentations of experimental work are essential, as
motivation and validation for the newest generations of methods.
Northampton is 1 1/2 hours west of Boston, MA and 45 minutes north of
Hartford, CT. The Northampton area offers many appealing features, from a
quaint downtown with clubs and restaurants, museums and shops, and
theaters and spas to natural splendor with rivers and mountains and
opportunities for biking and hiking. The area is home to five world-class
universities including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
College, Mount Holyoke College, Hampshire College and Smith College. The
workshop venue is the Hotel Northampton, built in 1927 and a member of
Historic Hotels of America.
Conference Contact:
Mike Graham (graham@engr.wis.edu)
Jonathan Rothstein (rothstein@ecs.umass.edu).
Conference Website: http://www.ecs.umass.edu/mie/faculty/rothstein/IWNMNF_home.html
26th Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society (04/07/10 - 07/07/10)
Details:
Banff, Canada
Conference Contact:
U. Sundararaj
5th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology (01/08/10 - 06/08/10)
Details:
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference Website: http://prcr2010.com
82nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology (18/10/10 - 22/10/10)
Details:
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Conference Website: http://www.rheology.org
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