Workshop Programme
for period 2-5 October
Dynamics of Complex Fluids; 10 Years On
2-5 October
Timetable
| Tuesday 03 October |
| 09:00-10:30 |
Short talks from participants: Complex flows; simulation and observation |
DCF |
| 09:00-09:10 |
Mackley, M (Cambridge) |
DCF |
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Experimentally precise polymer processing; predictions and surprises | Sem 1 |
| 09:10-09:20 |
Harlen, O (Leeds) |
DCF |
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Visoelastic particulate flows | Sem 1 |
| 09:20-09:30 |
Renardy, Y (V Tech) |
DCF |
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Drop deformation for visoelastic liquid-liquid systems | Sem 1 |
| 09:30-09:40 |
Webster, M (Swansea) |
DCF |
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Computational rheology - some challenges | Sem 1 |
| 09:50-10:00 |
Evans, RML (Leeds) |
DCF |
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Statistical mechanics of driven steady states | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:10 |
Cates, M (Edinburgh) |
DCF |
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Towards a constitutive equation for colloidal glasses | Sem 1 |
| 10:10-10:20 |
Clarke, N (Durham) |
DCF |
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Effect of shear flow on polymer-polymer miscibility: theoretical advance and challenges | Sem 1 |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee |
DCF |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Discussion |
DCF |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at the Newton Institute |
DCF |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Vlassopoulos, D (FORTH) |
DCF |
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Vitrification and melting in soft colloids | Sem 1 |
| 14:00-15:30 |
Short talks from participants: Structured fluids and transitions |
DCF |
| 14:30-14:40 |
Higgins, J (Imperial) |
DCF |
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Effect of shear flow on polymer-polymer miscibility limits - the unanswered question | Sem 1 |
| 14:50-15:00 |
Warner, M (Cambridge) |
DCF |
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Challenges in nematic elastomers | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:10 |
Briels, W (Twente) |
DCF |
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Coarse graining of slow variables: highly viscous 'ideal gases' showing strong shear thinning | Sem 1 |
| 15:10-15:20 |
Cox, S (Aberystwyth) |
DCF |
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Modelling the response of aqueous foams (and emulsions?) | Sem 1 |
| 15:20-15:30 |
Phillips, T (Cardiff) |
DCF |
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Grid and particle based methods for complex flows - the way forward | Sem 1 |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Tea |
DCF |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Discussion |
DCF |
| Wednesday 04 October |
| 09:00-10:30 |
Short talks from participants: Polymeric systems |
DCF |
| 09:00-09:10 |
Wagner, M (Berlin) |
DCF |
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Nonlinear rheology of polymer melts - implications of the interchain pressure term in tube models with strain dependent tube diameter | Sem 1 |
| 09:10-09:20 |
Leal, G (UCSB) |
DCF |
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Startup shear of stars | Sem 1 |
| 09:20-09:30 |
Doi, M (Tokyo) |
DCF |
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Drying of a droplet of polymer solution on a substrate | Sem 1 |
| 09:30-09:40 |
Rubinstein, M (Chapel Hill) |
DCF |
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Viscoelasticity of entangled rings | Sem 1 |
| 09:40-09:50 |
Bailly, C (Louvain) |
DCF |
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Plateau modulus and terminal relaxation time: old ideas and new questions | Sem 1 |
| 09:50-10:00 |
Boek, E (Schlumberger) |
DCF |
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Mesoscopic simulations of the rheology of entangled wormlike micelles | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:10 |
Read, D (Leeds) |
DCF |
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Tubes: means paths, constraint release and bimodal blends | Sem 1 |
| 10:10-10:20 |
Semenov, A (CNRS) |
DCF |
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Dynamics of associating polymers with random structure | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:30 |
Likhtman, A (Leeds) |
DCF |
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Open questions in the slip-link models of entanglements | Sem 1 |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee |
DCF |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Discussion |
DCF |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at the Newton Institute |
DCF |
| 14:00-15:30 |
Short talks from participants: Instabilities and rheochaos |
DCF |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Renardy, M (V Tech) |
DCF |
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Are viscoelastic flows under control or out of control? | Sem 1 |
| 14:10-14:20 |
Fielding, S (Manchester) |
DCF |
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Modelling complex dynamics in shear banding systems | Sem 1 |
| 14:20-14:30 |
Cates, M (Edinburgh) |
DCF |
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Rheochaos in simple shear-thickening models | Sem 1 |
| 14:30-14:40 |
McKinley, G (MIT) |
DCF |
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A decade of elastic instability | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-14:50 |
Goddard, J (UCSD) |
DCF |
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Material instability in complex fluids - from conjecture to reality | Sem 1 |
| 14:50-15:00 |
Entov, VM (Russian Academy of Science) |
DCF |
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Fluids breakup dynamics | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:10 |
Ramaswamy, S (Bangalore) |
DCF |
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Spatio-temporal rheochaos: recent experimental results | Sem 1 |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Tea |
DCF |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Discussion |
DCF |
| 19:00-18:00 |
Conference Dinner at St Catharine's College Pre-dinner drinks @ 19:00, Dinner served @ 19:30 |
DCF |
