The Colloquium Program is available below
June 10, 2015
- 09:00 - 09:15 Registration (EUROMECH participants and COST latecomers)
- 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome Address to EUROMECH Colloquium
- 09:30 - 10:10 Fibres and fibrils in shear and extension: inertia vs diffusion Fredrik Lundell (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 10:10 - 10:30 Multiscale modelling of concentrated suspensions of spherical particles Bob Powell (University of California at Davis, USA)
- 10:30 - 10:50 Cascade amplification of fluctuations Michael Wilkinson (Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
- 10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
- 11:10 - 11:30 The numerical study of drag torque coefficient of finite cylinder at moderate Reynolds number range Dariusz Asendrych (Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland)
- 11:30 - 11:50 Cost effective drag reduction by bio-polymer additives in industrial size turbulent pipe flow Mattia Simeoni (University of Udine, Italy)
- 11:50 - 12:10 Polymer-fiber laden flows in pipes of different diameters Lawrence C. Edomwonyi-Otu (UCL London, United Kingdom)
- 12:10 - 12:30 Collisions of poly-disperse spheroids settling in turbulence Christoph Siewert (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:40 Measurements of rotation and alignment of fibers, spheres and disks in turbulent flow Greg Voth (Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA)
- 14:40 - 15:00 Combined measurements of flow field and rigid fiber rotation/translation in near homogeneous isotrop Lilach Sabban (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
- 15:00 - 15:20 Electrical tomography use for imaging pulp suspensions flow in pipes: Restraints and evolution Pedro Faia (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
June 11, 2015
- 09:30 - 10:10 Dynamics and rheology of a dilute viscoelastic suspension of spheroids in an unbounded shear flow Pier Luca Maffettone (Universiy of Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy)
- 10:10 - 10:30 Drag and lift on prolate spheroids at low Reynolds numbers from CFD Fengjian Jiang (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
- 10:30 - 10:50 Numerical simulations of non-spherical particles in shear flows Mehdi Niazi and Luca Brandt (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
- 11:10 - 11:30 Magnetic resonance velocimetry of non-cellulosic fibre suspension flows Jordan MacKenzie (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 11:30 - 11:50 On the validity of Jeffery torques for rigid particles in turbulence Jure Ravnik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
- 11:50 - 12:10 Dispersion of rigid fibers in turbulent channel flow turbulence Cristian Marchioli (University of Udine, Italy)
- 12:10 - 12:30 Strategy in modelling irregular shaped particle behavior in confined turbulent flows Martin Sommerfeld (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:40 Effect of weak fluid inertia upon Jeffery orbits Bernhard Mehlig (University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
- 14:40 - 15:00 Orientational dynamics of a single neutrally buoyant spheroid in simple shear flow Tomas Rosen (Royal Insitute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 15:00 - 15:20 Orientation and rotation of inertial disk particles in wall turbulence Niranjan Reddy Challabotla (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
- 15:20 - 15:40 An accurate cut-cell method for interface-resolved simulations of particles with complex shapes Lennart Schneiders (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- 15:40 - 16:00 Numerical study on the stochastic features of drag and lift forces on a spheroid: contribution of se Jungwoo Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)
June 12, 2015
- 09:30 - 10:10 Bacteria in a flow Eric Clément (University “Pierre et Marie Curie”, Paris, France)
- 10:10 - 10:30 Influence of thermal stratification on plankton surfacing in turbulent open channel flow Alfredo Soldati (University of Udine, Udine, Italy)
- 10:30 - 10:50 Clustering of chiral particles in flows with broken parity invariance Kristian Gustafsson (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy)
- 10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
- 11:10 - 11:30 Spheroids in wall turbulence: Part 1 effect of the shear Lihao Zhao (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
- 11:30 - 11:50 Spheroids in wall turbulence: Part 2 effects of inertia Helge I. Andersson (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
- 11:50 - 12:10 Breakage of ductile aggregates in turbulent channel flow Cristian Marchioli (University of Udine, Udine, Italy)
- 12:10 - 12:30 A stochastic approach for multilayer deposition and resuspension in turbulent flows Christophe Henry (IMP PAN, Gdansk, Poland)