UKFN weekly round-up 30/1/19

If you would like to circulate a brief message to the UKFN mailing list, you can send it to info@fluids.ac.uk by Thursday noon and it will be circulated in the weekly round-up later that day.

Please note the bulletin is going out on Wednesday this week only, returning to Thursday next week.



A. UKFN MESSAGES



From: Nick Daish, 30/1/19
Subject: CISM Advanced Courses

CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences), based in Udine, Italy, offers a number of Advanced Courses that may be of interest to fluid mechanics researchers. Outline details of the relevant courses for 2019 are listed below - for a list of all courses, see http://www.cism.it/courses/.

Note there is some support available for participants who cannot find funding from their institution: applications can be made up to 2 months before each course (see the respective flyer for further details).


(a) Cohesive Granular Materials, Description and Flowing Properties
27-31 May 2019
Coordinated by Blanche Dalloz, Maxime Nicolas & Pierre Jop
Flyer: http://media.cism.it/courses%2FC1903%2FC1903_Dalloz_Nicolas_Jop.pdf

(b) CISM-ECCOMAS International Summer School on 'Coherent Structures in Unsteady Flows: Mathematical and Computational Methods'
3-7 June 2019
Coordinated by George Haller
Flyer: http://media.cism.it/courses%2FC1904%2FC1904.pdf

(c) CISM-AIMETA Advanced School on 'Anisotropic Particles in Viscous and Turbulent Flows'
1-5 July 2019
Coordinated by Cristian Marchioli & Gautier Verhille
Flyer: http://media.cism.it/courses%2FC1907%2FC1907.pdf

(d) 24th CISM-IUTAM International Summer School on 'Plant Biomechanics'
8-12 July 2019
Coordinated by Christophe Eloy & Yoël Forterre
Flyer: http://media.cism.it/courses%2FC1908%2FC1908.pdf

(e) Advances in Dispersed Multi-Phase Flows: from Measuring to Modeling
15-19 July 2019
Coordinated by Filippo Coletti & Remi Zamansky
Flyer: http://media.cism.it/courses%2FC1909%2FC1909.pdf

(f) Transport Phenomena on Textured Surfaces: Fundamentals and Applications
23-27 September 2019
Coordinated by Darren Crowdy & Marc Hodes
Flyer: http://media.cism.it/courses%2FC1912%2FC1912.pdf



From: Nick Daish, 30/1/19
Subject: UKFN Fluid Mechanics Thesis Prize (updated)

This is advance notice that UKFN will once again be running a competition for the best Fluid Mechanics-themed doctoral thesis from the previous year. We will be asking examiners to nominate outstanding dissertations that were submitted during 2018, and details will follow soon on the UKFN website. The winner will receive a prize of £500, and together with the two runners-up will be invited to present their work at this year's UK Fluids Conference in Cambridge (27-29 August 2019, http://ukfluids2019.bpi.cam.ac.uk/).





B. MEMBER MESSAGES



EVENTS:

From: Claire Savy, University of Leeds, 28/1/19
Subject: Live streaming of Prof Howard Stone at Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics launch event

Date: TODAY - 30 January 2019, 17:45-19:00
Web Link: : https://livestream.com/uol/LIFD
Programme: https://tinyurl.com/lifd-live-schedule



From: Victor Voulgaropoulos, Mirco Magnini & Christos Markides, ICL, 29/1/19
Subject: 8th International Symposium on Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD 2019)

Date: 16-19 July 2019
Location: University of Limerick, Ireland
Details: https://www.bifd2019.org/
Submit abstracts by 3 February 2019



From: Kirsty Wan, University of Exeter, 24/1/19
Subject: International discussion meeting 'Unity and diversity of ciliary systems in locomotion and transport'

Date: 18-19 March 2019
Location: Chicheley Hall (Kavli Royal Society Centre)
Details: https://tinyurl.com/rs-ciliary-systems
Submit poster abstracts by 4 February 2019



From: Yuying Yan, University of Nottingham, 24/1/19
Subject: 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference

Date: 8-10 September 2019
Location: University of Nottingham
Details: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-eng/ukhtc2019/index.aspx
Submit abstracts by 15 February 2019



From: Kenneth Chinembiri & Shuisheng He, University of Sheffield, 24/1/19
Subject: 4th meeting of the Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics SIG

Date: 18 February 2019
Location: University of Sheffield
Details: https://tinyurl.com/sig-nth-mtg4



From: Ed Ransley, University of Plymouth, 28/1/19
Subject: Webinar on the ARCHER Embedded CSE (eCSE) project 'Developing Dynamic Load Balancing library for wsiFoam'

Date: 6 February 2019, 15:00 GMT
Web Link: http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/virtual/index.php
Navigate to the 'Upcoming Sessions' section





JOBS:

From: Zhihua Xie, Cardiff University, 25/1/19
Subject: Fully funded EPSRC DTP PhD Studentship

Topic: 'Numerical modelling of non-Newtonian rising bubbles'
Details: https://t.co/o0nObxYumv
Closing date: 1 March 2019



From: Julien Reboud, University of Glasgow, 28/1/19
Subject: PDRA in Microfluidics/lab-on-a-chip

Topic: New microfluidic and acoustic based technologies for capture and analysis of pathogens
Details: https://tinyurl.com/pdra-glasgow-micro-loac
Closing date: 18 February 2019


From: Julien Reboud, University of Glasgow, 28/1/19
Subject: Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher award: two positions available

Topic: Project EVOdrops, 'Directed Evolution in Drops'
Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/it/iframe/jobs/ (search for 'evodrops' under 'Key Word')
Closing date: 25 February 2019





SEMINAR SERIES:

Venue: School of Engineering, University of Warwick
Topics: Fluid Dynamics and Multiscale Modelling

Link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/fluids/seminars