UK Fluids Network Newsletter

Issue 5 (27/2/17)



Welcome to Issue 5 of the UK Fluids Network newsletter, a regular summary of the Network's activities and news from the UK Fluids community.



1. Short Research Visits, https://ukfluids.net/srv

The first batch of SRVs has been approved.

(i) Advancing Atmospheric Models: Aspects of Spatial Discretisation

Dr Joanna Szmelter (Loughborough) visiting Dr Nils Wedi, Dr Christan Kühnlein & Prof Piotr Smolarkiewicz, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

(ii) Controlling nematic microfluidics: a merger of modelling, simulation and experiments

Dr Apala Majumdar (Bath) visiting Dr Ian Griffiths, Oxford

(iii) Exploration of integrated microfluidics with phononics and acoustofluidics based on thin-film platform

Dr Richard Fu (Northumbria) visiting Dr Julien Reboud & Dr Rab Wilson, Glasgow

(iv) Interrogating local shear effects on coherent structure identification in turbulent flows

Dr Chris Keylock (Sheffield) visiting Dr Oliver Buxton, ICL

(v) Towards a mechanistic understanding of haematocrit changes in tumour vasculature

Dr Miguel O. Bernabeu (Edinburgh) visiting Prof Helen Byrne, Oxford



· The deadline for the next batch of proposals is 31 May 2017.





2. Special Interest Groups, https://ukfluids.net/sig

(a) Results of second call for proposals

Funding for the following 15 SIGs was recommended by the Executive Committee and confirmed by the Advisory Board, bringing the total number of SIGs to 41:



27 Acoustofluidics

28 Combustion science, technology and applications

29 Evolving interfaces in complex flows

30 Fluid mechanics of nanostructured materials

31 Ground vehicle aerodynamics

32 High speed experimental aerodynamics

33 Mathematical challenges of nonlinear waves and interfacial dynamics

34 Non-equilibrium turbulence

35 Nuclear thermal hydraulics – advanced modelling, simulation and experimentation

36 Numerical optimisation with fluids

37 Quantum fluids

38 Smoothed particle hydrodynamics

39 Sprays in engineering applications: modelling and experimental studies

40 Surface and internal waves

41 Wave turbulence



Further details are given on https://ukfluids.net/sig/second-call.



(b) SIG meetings

The following SIG meetings have been planned (listed in chronological order). For contact details for each SIG, see pages on https://ukfluids.net/sig.

· SIG11, Fluid mechanic of the eye

27/28 Feb 2017, Imperial College, London

· SIG34, Non-equilibrium turbulence

23 Mar 2017, Imperial College, London

· SIG08, Flow instability, modelling and control

29/30 Mar 2017, Southampton

· SIG13, Low-energy ventilation

29 Mar 2017, Imperial College, London

· SIG12, Granular flows in the environment and industry

30/31 Mar 2017, Cambridge

· SIG24, Urban fluid mechanics

30/31 Mar 2017, Southampton

· SIG03, Boundary layers in complex rotating systems

3/4 Apr 2017, Cambridge

· SIG05, Drop dynamics

3 Apr 2017, Oxford

· SIG06, Droplet and flow interactions with bio-inspired and smart surfaces

12 Apr 2017, Northumbria

· SIG19, Next generation time-stepping strategies for computer simulations of multi-scale fluid flows

18/19 (est.) May 2017, Imperial College, London

· SIG22, Turbulent free shear flows

19 May 2017, Leicester

· SIG02, Biologically active fluids

10/11 Jul 2017, Birmingham



In addition, kick-off meetings were held by the following SIGs:

· SIG23, “Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction”, held its first meeting on 21 February at ICL. There were 16 participants from universities and industry.

· SIG25, “User's forum for National Wind Tunnel Facility”.



(c) Registration of SIG members

If you are a member of a SIG, you are kindly requested to ensure you have registered at https://ukfluids.net/register so that you are included in the UKFN database. This will enable the lists of members to be built on the Members tab for each SIG (see, for example, https://ukfluids.net/sig/Aeroacoustics).



· We welcome updates from all SIGs on their meetings and activities, so please contact us by Friday, 24 March 2017 with your news.





3. Executive Committee (EC) meeting agenda for comment

The next EC meeting will take place on Thursday, 23 March. The draft agenda has been posted online at https://ukfluids.net/admin. If you have any comments please submit them using info@ukfluids.net or https://ukfluids.net/contact by Thursday, 9 March 2017.





4. Twitter feed (Repeat)

This is a reminder to keep watching the Twitter feed on the home page, which displays all tweets from UKFN (@UKFluidsNetwork). Any time-critical deadlines that the newsletter would otherwise miss (conference abstracts, job applications, etc) are tweeted and appear here.





5. Forthcoming workshops and conferences, https://ukfluids.net/, “What’s On”

(Deadline in next week**, passed*)



New

(a) 38th AIVC Conference: Ventilating healthy low-energy buildings

13-14 September 2017

http://www.aivc2017conference.org/

**Deadline: abstracts – 1 March 2017



(b) Complex Motion in Fluids 2017

24-29 September 2017

http://complexmotion2017.damtp.cam.ac.uk/

Deadline: registration/abstracts – 1 April 2017



Repeats

(c) Second annual UK Fluids Conference

6-8 September 2017, University of Leeds

http://www.fluid-dynamics.leeds.ac.uk/uk-fluids-conference/

Deadline: abstracts – 24 April 2017 (via EasyChair)

(d) CFD in Chemical Engineering @ 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering

1-5 October 2017, Barcelona, Spain

http://www.wcce10.org/index.php/jointevents/cfd-symposium

*Deadline: abstracts (passed)

(e) 3rd International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows

26-29 June 2017, University of Tokyo

http://www.jsmf.gr.jp/icnmmf2017/

*Deadline: abstracts (passed)

(f) 7th International Symposium on Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD)

11-14 July 2017, The Woodlands (near Houston), Texas

http://www.shsu.edu/academics/physics/bifd-2017/index.html

*Deadline: abstracts (passed)

(g) ERCOFTAC European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM-2017)

3-6 April 2017, Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), Italy

http://edrfcm.unisa.it/

*Deadline: abstracts (passed)

(h) BAMC 2017, including fluids-related mini-symposia (Instability & Transition of Shear Flows, Dynamics of Evaporation, Recent Progress in the Mathematical Theory of Fluid Mechanics, Ice-Fluid Coupling, Spatial Localisation in Fluids)

10-12 April 2017, University of Surrey

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/bamc

*Deadline: abstracts for contributed talks (passed)





· Please contact us by Friday, 24 March 2017 if you would like to advertise a workshop or conference in the next newsletter.



6. Open PDRA, faculty and other positions



(a) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Japanese institutions and research organisations

https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/jsps-postdoctoral

Closing date: 7 March 2017



(b) Lecturer in Applied Mathematics

School of Mathematics, Cardiff University

http://tinyurl.com/jp6o6dq

Closing date: 13 March 2017



(c) PhD Studentship in Nanoscale Fluid Dynamics

School of Engineering, University of Warwick

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXG802/phd-studentship-nanoscale-fluid-dynamics/

Closing date: open till filled



(d) Lecturer in Mathematics

Mathematics Department, City University

http://tinyurl.com/jndr6zd

Closing date: 21 March 2017



(e) Research Fellow in acoustic wave microfluidics and lab-on-chip

Physics/Engineering, Northumbria University

http://work4.northumbria.ac.uk/hrvacs/eae1633

Closing date: 15 March 2017





· Please contact us by Friday, 24 March 2017 if you would like to advertise open PDRA, faculty and other positions in the next newsletter.







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