11th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Dynamics with emphasis on Multiphase and Complex Flow
6–8 July 2021
Online
Introduction
This conference is the merging of two successful events organised by the Wessex Institute, the International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics (AFM) and the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Methods in Multiphase and Complex Flow (MPF), which originated in New Orleans (1996), and Orlando, Florida (2001) respectively.
The field of fluid mechanics is vast and has numerous and diverse applications. The conference covers a wide range of topics, including basic formulations and their computer modelling as well as the relationship between experimental and analytical results.
Innovation in fluid-structure approaches including emerging applications as energy harvesting systems, studies of turbulent flows at high Reynold number, or subsonic and hypersonic flows are among the usual topics of the conference that is also open to new applications and research currently in progress.
The emphasis on multiphase flow in this conference is because fluid dynamics processes in nature are predominantly multi-phased, i.e. involving more than one phase of a component such as liquid, gas or plasma. The range of related problems of interest is vast: astrophysics, biology, geophysics, atmospheric processes, and a large variety of engineering applications.
Multiphase fluid dynamics have generated a great deal of recent interest, leading to many notable advances in experimental, analytical, and numerical studies in this area. While progress is continuing in all three categories, advances in numerical solutions are likely the most conspicuous, owing to the continuing improvements in computer power and the software tools available to researchers. Progress in numerical methods has not only allowed for the solution of many practical problems but also helped to improve our understanding of the physics involved. Many unresolved issues are inherent in the very definition of multiphase flow, where it is necessary to consider coupled processes on multiple scales, as well as the interplay of a wide variety of relevant physical phenomena.
The papers – like others presented at Wessex Institute conferences – are part of the WIT Transactions in Engineering Sciences series and are archived online in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are freely available to the international scientific community.
Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at AFM/MPF 2021. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.
- Multiphase flow simulation
- Bubble and drop dynamics
- Experimental measurements
- Compressible multiphase flows
- Flow in porous media
- Turbulent multiphase flow
- Heat and mass transfer
- Fluidized beds
- Cavitation
- Phase transition and interface behaviour
- Multiphase chemical reactions
- Statistical approaches in multiphase flow
- Visualisation techniques of multiphase flow
- Non-Newtonian multiphase flows
- Validation methods in multiphase flow
- Computational methods
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Environmental fluid dynamics
- Industrial applications
- Energy harvesting
- Nano and micro fluids
- Jets
- Pumping and fluid transportation
- Hydroelectromagnetic flow
- Hypersonic flows
- Wave theory
- Acoustics of noise propagation
- Theoretical methods
- Bluff body aerodynamics
- Aerodynamic shape optimization
- Case studies