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September 14-18, 2009
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 modeling of these fluids and phenomena.
Topics to be
discussed include modeling from microscopic to macroscopic,
closures,
and model predictions. Areas of special interest include shear
rheometry,
especially transient and steady state flows, inhomogeneities,
shear
banding, vorticity banding, three-dimensional flows and
stability.
Schedule not yet available.
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