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Brian Duffy, University of Strathclyde
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G.M. "Bud" Homsy, University of California
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Stephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde
About:
This meeting brought together leading international experts in thin-film flow from across several different traditional academic disciplines, including mathematics, engineering, physics and chemistry, to report on their latest discoveries and to foster new inter-disciplinary collaborations. Such a genuine mixing of scientists with common interests from different specialities is rare and was the most likely way to spark genuinely new and exciting research.
This meeting built on the great success of the 1999 ICMS meeting "The Dynamics of Thin Fluid Films" organised by Wilson, Duffy and Michael Grinfeld from the University of Strathclyde.
The workshop covered the latest developments in thin-film flow including (but not limited to) the rapidly growing fields of foam dynamics, micro-fluidics and nano-technology, as well as the latest experimental and numerical techniques and asymptotic analysis, all of which are able to cast new light on the subtle interplay between competing physical effects in thin-film flows.
Specific topics:
- The analysis of evaporating layers and droplets
- The complex structure and dynamics of surfactant-laden flows, the coarsening dynamics of droplets, thin-film flow of visco-plastic and visco-elastic fluids (including exciting developments on cooling lava flows), the propagation of thin fluid-filled cracks
- Thin-film modelling of the Arctic ice sheet and shelf (including its breakup), and numerous new and exciting biological and medical applications (including wound healing, biofilm formation and growth
- The dynamics of fluid linings, and several aspects of cell motion
There were two main objectives:
- To raise awareness within industry of how ICMS can help companies access and commercially exploit academic research and expertise in mathematics and computing
- To understand how companies working in the area of thin films use mathematics and computing in their businesses and to identify potential areas of collaboration on new and industrially motivated problems
Speakers
Vladimir Ajaev, Southern Methodist University - The Effect of Evaporation on Fingering Instabilities
Nuri Aksel, University of Bayreuth - Linear and Nonlinear Resonance in Viscous Film Flow Over Topography
John Billingham, University of Nottingham - Thin Three Dimensional Climbing Drops
Jacy Bird, Harvard University - Dynamics of Thin Curved Films
Brian Duffy, University of Strathclyde - Non-Isothermal Flow of a Thin Film on a Stationary or Rotating Cylinder
Ulysse Delabre, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique - Coalescence Driven by Line Tension
Rosemary Dyson, University of Nottingham - A Fibre-Reinforced Fluid Model of Anisotropic Root Cell Growth
Jens Eggers, University of Bristol - Hydrodynamic Theory of Coating
Peter Evans, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Thin Film Models for Quantum Dot Structures in Solid Films
Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Marangoni Convection and Nano-Particles Deposition in Evaporating Liquid Films on Substrates with Non-Uniform Thermal Conductivity
David Gelder, Mathematics for Manufacturers - The Interaction Between Surface Diffusion and Very Low Reynolds Number Flow
Günther Grün, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg - On Phase-Field Models for Dynamic Electrowetting
Andrew Hazel, The University of Manchester - Steady Propagation of Air Fingers in Rectangular Tubes
Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol - The Flow and Arrest of Viscoplastic Fluids
Natalia Ivanova, Loughborough University - Kinetics of Spreading of Aqueous Trisiloxane Solutions Over Hydrophobic Surfaces
Dilwyn Jones, Emral Ltd - Institute of Physics Printing and Graphics Science Group
Luc Lebon, CNRS and Université Paris Diderot) - Liquid Spreading Without and With Flow
Laurent Limat, CNRS and Université Paris Diderot - Structure Formation Observed for Two Kinds of Dewetting Fronts
Anne Jue, University of Manchester - Partially-Occluded Tubes Can Force Switch-Like Transitions in the Behaviour of Propagating Bubbles
Serafim Kalliadasis, Imperial College London - Influence of Spatial Heterogeneities on Contact Line Dynamics
Mark Kelmanson, University of Leeds - Multiple-Timescale Asymptotics for Coating Flows
John King, University of Nottingham - Thin Film Modelling of Growing Populations of Cells
Rouslan Krechetnikov, University of California - Controversies of the Landau–Levich Problem
John Lister, University of Cambridge - The Dynamics of Pendent Drops on a Thin Film Coating
Lennon O'Naraigh, Imperial College London - Instability in Two-Phase Turbulent Stratified Flow
Alex Oron, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - Stability of Temporally Forced Liquid Films
Dirk Peschka, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics - Self-Similar Rupture for Thin Films with Slip
Henry Power, University of Nottingham - Integral Equation Simulation of Three-Dimensional Thin Film Flow Over and Around Obstacles
David Quere, ESPCI and École polytechnique - Drops in Asymmetric Landscapes
Benoit Scheid, Universite Libre de Bruxelles - Non-Monotonic Behaviours of the Draw Resonance Instability in Stretching Viscous Sheets
Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente - Maximum Size of Drops Levitated by an Air Cushion
Patrick Tabeling, ESPCI - Droplets and Microfluidics
Michele Taroni, University of Oxford - Mathematical Modelling of the Screen-Printing Process
Uwe Thiele, Loughborough University - Modelling Approaches to the Dewetting of Evaporating Thin Films of Nanoparticle Suspensions
Ranganathan Usha, Indian Institute of Technology - Thin Film Flow Down a Porous Incline: Dynamics and Stability
Stephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde - Sheets, Rivulets and Droplets Subject to an External Air Flow
Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago - Memory as Vibration in a Disconnecting Air Bubble