IMA Annual Program Year Workshop

Flowing Complex Fluids: Rheological Measurements and Constitutive Modeling

Description:

Fluids with nontrivial small-scale inhomogeneities (microstructure) include suspensions, emulsions, foams, polymer melts and solutions, surfactant solutions and liquid crystals. Flows of these complex fluids display features that are not found in simple fluids, including interfacial and bulk instabilities, texture formation and evolution and other novel flow phenomena that all can be traced back to the influence the fluid microstructure has on the stresses that develop within the flow. This workshop will focus on the experimental motivation and the constitutive modeling of complex fluids at all scales. Topics to be discussed include modeling from microscopic to mesoscopic to macroscopic, closures, constitutive model predictions including shear thinning and thickening regimes, inhomogeneities in flow including transient and steady state shearbanding, and shear induced phase transitions.

• Roger Bonnecaze (University of Texas, confirmed)
  
• Richard Braun (University of Delaware, confirmed)
  
• Wesley Burghardt (Northwestern University, confirmed)
  
• Jason Butler (University of Florida, confirmed)
  
• Paul Callaghan (Victoria University of Wellington, confirmed)
  
• Michael Cates (University of Edinburgh, confirmed)
  
• Phillipe Coussot (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), confirmed)
  
• Georges Debrégeas (École Normale Supérieure, confirmed)
  
• Suzanne Fielding (University of Manchester, confirmed)
  
• M. Forest (University of North Carolina, confirmed)
  
• Ravi Jagadeeshan (Monash University, confirmed)
  
• Dan Klingenberg (University of Wisconsin, confirmed)
  
• Ronald Larson (University of Michigan, confirmed)
  
• Sandra Lerouge (Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot), confirmed)
  
• Alexei Likhtman (University of Reading, confirmed)
  
• Gareth Mckinley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, confirmed)
  
• Scott Milner (Pennsylvania State University, confirmed)
  
• Peter Olmsted (University of Leeds, confirmed)
  
• Robert Owens (University of Montreal, confirmed)
  
• Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh, confirmed)
  
• Sriram Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, confirmed)
  
• Eric Shaqfeh (Stanford University, confirmed)
  
• Michael Solomon (University of Michigan, confirmed)
  
• Ajay Sood (Indian Institute of Science, confirmed)
  
• Kathleen Stebe (University of Pennsylvania, confirmed)
  
• Becca Thomases (University of California, Davis, confirmed)
  
• Norman Wagner (University of Delaware, confirmed)