Conveners
DA. Complex Fluids
- Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech)
David Zumbrunnen
(Clemson University)
10/20/11, 1:30 PM
Invited
Several forces arise when different liquids are placed into contact. The relative importance of these forces depends on the sizes and shapes of liquid domains and also on molecular characteristics of the liquids. When the liquids are agitated and in the absence of interdiffusion, a composite structure results that is defined by the spatial extent and size of each liquid domain in the presence...
Sunghwan Jung
(Virginia Tech)
10/20/11, 2:00 PM
Invited
Fluids are essential for most living organisms to maintain a healthy body and also serve as a medium in which they locomote. The fluid bulk or interfaces actively interact with biological structures, which produces highly nonlinear, interesting, and complicated dynamical problems. We studied the lapping of cats and the swimming of Paramecia in various fluidic environments. The problem of the...
Dr
Brian Utter
(James Madison University)
10/20/11, 2:30 PM
Invited
Granular materials exist all around us, from avalanches in nature to the mixing of pharmaceuticals, yet the behavior of these "fluids" is poorly understood. While the interaction of individual particles is simply through friction and inelastic collisions, the non-linear forces and large number of particles leads to an unpredictable, complex system. Flow can be characterized by the continuous...
