Dynamics of complex fluids; 10 years on

Workshop theme

The 1996 INIMS programme "Dynamics of Complex Fluids" was a pivotal point for Soft Matter Physics and Applied Mathematics in many ways. At the microstructural level, it brought together theoreticians previously focussed on colloids, polymers or surfactants, and provided a forum for the pooling of methods and for a survey of the common ground. In the field of Non-Newtonian flow, it created a meeting point for the molecular and macroscopic approaches. Computational methods for bulk flows started to adapt seriously to microstructural constitutive models. Now-standard models for dynamics of branched polymers were among the results. Early work on the theory of granular media and biological macromolecular dynamics began in the context of the DCF programme.

Ten years on it is time both to assess the long-term inpact of DCF and to look ahead once more and generate the next mathematical challenges in complex fluids. This week will bring together people whose research programmes were affected by the DCF programme: either because they were there themselves, or because the results have determined or shaped their own research. Like DCF, it will be forward-looking and innovative, devoting at least half of the time to unstructured discussion.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

Timetable

Monday 2nd October 2006
09:00 to 12:00	Registration	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at the Newton Institute	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:40	Gareth McKinley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Filament stretching rheometry ten years on	Room 1
14:40 to 15:20	Anthony Pearson Reflections and recollections	Room 1
15:20 to 15:40	Tea	No Room Required
15:40 to 16:20	Tom McLeish University of Leeds Pom-poms and beyond.. 10 more years of the branched polymer challenge	Room 1
16:20 to 17:00	Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh Rheology you can see: recent advances in the flow of concentrated suspensions	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Giuseppe Marrucci Mesoscopic simulations of entangled polymers, blends, copolymers, and branched structures	Room 1
18:00 to 19:00	Wine and Beer Reception	No Room Required

Tuesday 3rd October 2006
09:00 to 09:10	Experimentally precise polymer processing; predictions and surprises	Room 1
09:00 to 10:30	Short talks from participants: Complex flows; simulation and observation	Discussion Room
09:10 to 09:20	Oliver Harlen University of Leeds Visoelastic particulate flows	Room 1
09:20 to 09:30	Yuriko Renardy Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Drop deformation for visoelastic liquid-liquid systems	Room 1
09:30 to 09:40	Mike Webster Computational rheology - some challenges	Room 1
09:50 to 10:00	Mike Evans University of Leeds Statistical mechanics of driven steady states	Room 1
10:00 to 10:10	Mike Cates University of Edinburgh Towards a constitutive equation for colloidal glasses	Room 1
10:10 to 10:20	Stuart Clarke University of Cambridge Effect of shear flow on polymer-polymer miscibility: theoretical advance and challenges	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 12:30	Discussion	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at the Newton Institute	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:10	Dimitris Vlassopoulos Vitrification and melting in soft colloids	Room 1
14:00 to 15:30	Short talks from participants: Structured fluids and transitions	Discussion Room
14:30 to 14:40	Julia Higgins Imperial College London Effect of shear flow on polymer-polymer miscibility limits - the unanswered question	Room 1
14:50 to 15:00	Mark Warner University of Cambridge Challenges in nematic elastomers	Room 1
15:00 to 15:10	Wim Briels Coarse graining of slow variables: highly viscous 'ideal gases' showing strong shear thinning	Room 1
15:10 to 15:20	Simon Cox Aberystwyth University Modelling the response of aqueous foams (and emulsions?)	Room 1
15:20 to 15:30	Grid and particle based methods for complex flows - the way forward	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Discussion	Room 1

Wednesday 4th October 2006
09:00 to 10:30	Short talks from participants: Polymeric systems	Discussion Room
09:00 to 09:10	Manfred Wagner Nonlinear rheology of polymer melts - implications of the interchain pressure term in tube models with strain dependent tube diameter	Room 1
09:10 to 09:20	Gary Leal University of California, Santa Barbara Startup shear of stars	Room 1
09:20 to 09:30	Drying of a droplet of polymer solution on a substrate	Room 1
09:30 to 09:40	Michael Rubinstein Viscoelasticity of entangled rings	Room 1
09:40 to 09:50	Christian Bailly Plateau modulus and terminal relaxation time: old ideas and new questions	Room 1
09:50 to 10:00	Edo Boek Schlumberger Cambridge Research Mesoscopic simulations of the rheology of entangled wormlike micelles	Room 1
10:00 to 10:10	Tubes: means paths, constraint release and bimodal blends	Room 1
10:10 to 10:20	Alexander Semenov CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Dynamics of associating polymers with random structure	Room 1
10:20 to 10:30	Open questions in the slip-link models of entanglements	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 12:30	Discussion	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at the Newton Institute	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Short talks from participants: Instabilities and rheochaos	Discussion Room
14:00 to 14:10	Yuriko Renardy Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Are viscoelastic flows under control or out of control?	Room 1
14:10 to 14:20	Modelling complex dynamics in shear banding systems	Room 1
14:20 to 14:30	Mike Cates University of Edinburgh Rheochaos in simple shear-thickening models	Room 1
14:30 to 14:40	Gareth McKinley Massachusetts Institute of Technology A decade of elastic instability	Room 1
14:40 to 14:50	Joe Goddard Material instability in complex fluids - from conjecture to reality	Room 1
14:50 to 15:00	Fluids breakup dynamics	Room 1
15:00 to 15:10	Spatio-temporal rheochaos: recent experimental results	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	Room 1
16:00 to 17:00	Discussion	Room 1
19:00 to 18:00	Conference Dinner at St Catharine's College Pre-dinner drinks @ 19:00, Dinner served @ 19:30	No Room Required

Thursday 5th October 2006
09:00 to 10:30	Short talks from participants: Biological systems and discussion	Discussion Room
09:00 to 09:30	Self-organisation and mechanics of active polymer solutions	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	Active gels: cytoskeletal networks with contractile forces	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	From cell extracts to granular layers: the universal hydrodynamics of self-propelled systems	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 12:30	Short talks from participants: Emerging themes	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at the Newton Institute	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:10	Francisco Chinesta On the efficient numerical simulation of kinetic theory models of complex fluids and flows	Room 1
14:10 to 14:20	Come on - feel the noise!	Room 1
14:20 to 14:30	Tom McLeish University of Leeds Tube-deformation and PS in extension	Room 1

Speakers

Christian Bailly
Edo Boek Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Wim Briels
Mike Cates University of Edinburgh
Francisco Chinesta
Stuart Clarke University of Cambridge
Simon Cox Aberystwyth University
Mike Evans University of Leeds
Joe Goddard
Oliver Harlen University of Leeds
Julia Higgins Imperial College London
Gary Leal University of California, Santa Barbara
Giuseppe Marrucci
Gareth McKinley Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom McLeish University of Leeds
Anthony Pearson
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh
Yuriko Renardy Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Michael Rubinstein
Alexander Semenov CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Manfred Wagner
Mark Warner University of Cambridge
Mike Webster

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Dynamics of complex fluids; 10 years on

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