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List of EUROMECH Colloquia in 2008

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• [495] Advances in simulation of multibody systems dynamics

  Date:	18 February 2008 - 21 February 2008
  Location:	Bryansk, Russia
  Contact:	Chairpersons: Prof. Dmitry Pogorelov Department of Applied Mechanics, Bryansk State Technical University b. 50 let Oktyabrya, 7, 241035 Bryansk, Russia Phone, Fax: +7 4832 568637 E-mail: pogorelov@tu-bryansk.ru Em. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Schiehlen Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +49 711 685 66388 Fax: +49 711 685 66400 Email: schiehlen@itm.uni-stuttgart.de EUROMECH contact person: Prof. Irina Goryacheva Website
  Information:	The scope of the colloquium covers new developments in multibody system (MBS) dynamics: advanced methods of generation and solving equations of motion; new approaches in simulation of hybrid flexible/rigid MBS (comparison of absolute and relative coordinate formulations), electromechanical and mechatronic systems (multiphysics and co-simulation approaches); algorithms for parallel computations and their implementations; recent applications to engineering systems (rail and road vehicles etc.), wheel and walking robots, biomechanical motions of animals and humans; mathematical models of force interactions (contact, tyre, fast algorithms); efficiency of multibody dynamics software.

• [497] Recent Developments and New Directions in Thin-Film Flow

  Date:	Summer 2008
  Location:	Edinburgh, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Stephen K. Wilson Department of Mathematics University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower 26 Richmond Street Glasgow, G1 1XH, UK Ph: +44 141 548 3820 Fax: +44 141 548 3345 E-Mail: s.k.wilson@strath.ac.uk Co-Chairperson: Dr. Brian R. Duffy, Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, UK EUROMECH contact person: Prof. I.D. Abrahams

• [498] Nonlinear Dynamics of Composites and Smart Structures

  Date:	21 May 2008 - 24 May 2008
  Location:	Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. J. Warminski Lublin University of Technology Department of Applied Mechanics Nadbystrzycka 36 20-618 Lublin, Poland Ph: +48 81 538 4197; Fax: +48 81 538 4205 e-mail: j.warminski@pollub.pl Co-Chairperson: Prof. M.P.Cartmell University of Glasgow Department of Mechanical Engineering James Watt Building Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland e-mail: m.cartmell@mech.gla.ac.uk EUROMECH Contact person: Prof. Henrik Petryk Website
  Information:	The aim of the 498th EUROMECH Colloquium is to provide a forum for scientists working on the nonlinear dynamics of composite structures with controllable and adaptive properties. A wide range of theoretical and applications-based problems in nonlinear dynamics, exhibiting both regular and chaotic motions, is accommodated within the scope of the colloquium. The conference focuses on the dynamics of systems with lumped and distributed mass, modelling and control of the dynamics of composite and smart structures, nonlinear normal modes, bifurcations, stability and chaos of nonlinear systems. Applications in these areas will be welcome, as will cutting-edge research in interdisciplinary problems involving engineering science, biomechanics, and medicine.

• [499] Nonlinear Mechanics of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: Phase Transitions, Instability, Non equilibrium, Modeling

  Date:	9 June 2008 - 12 June 2008
  Location:	Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Mikhail Panfilov LEMTA-ENSEM 2, av. de la Foret de la Haye BP 160 F-54504 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex Ph: +33 3 83595697 Fax: +33 3 83595616 e-mail: mikhail.panfilov@ensem.inpl-nancy.fr EUROMECH Contact person: Prof. Bernhard Schrefler Website
  Information:	The colloquium will present the results recently obtained in fundamental mechanics of multiphase flow through porous media. Physical effects produced by the interaction of the natural flow nonlinearity with medium heterogeneity and coupled compositional, thermal, chemical, capillary and microbiological phenomena, will constitute the program kernel, along with the conceptual mathematical models of such processes. This will cover the theory of liquid displacement by gas with dissolution of chemical components, the thermal drying or ice thawing in saturated media as a kind of Stephan problem, the flow micro-mechanics, the theory of non-equilibrium flow caused by the formation of large-scale phase aggregates, the flow coupled with population dynamics caused by active bacteria or dispersed phase ganglia, the Saffman-Taylor instability amplified or reduced by medium heterogeneity and superposed with hydrodynamic dispersion.

• [500] Non-smooth Problems in Vehicle Systems Dynamics - Analysis and Solutions

  Date:	17 June 2008 - 20 June 2008
  Location:	Danish Technical University, Lyngby , Denmark
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Per Grove Thomsen Technical University of Denmark Richard Petersens Plads 321 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Ph: + 45 45253073 Fax : +45 45932373 e-mail: pgt@imm.dtu.dk Co-Chairperson: Prof. Hans True Technical University of Denmark Richard Petersens Plads 321 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark EUROMECH Contact person: Prof. Jorge Ambrosio

• [501] Mixing of coastal, estuarine and riverine shallow flows

  Date:	8 June 2008 - 11 June 2008
  Location:	Istituto di Idraulica e Infrastrutture Viarie Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Maurizio Brocchini Istituto di Idraulica e Infrastrutture Viarie, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy Ph: +39 071 220 4522 Fax: +39 071 220 4528 e-mail: m.brocchini@univpm.it Co-Chairperson: Prof. GertJan van Heijst Department of Applied Physics Eindhoven University of Technology PO Box 513, CC 2.17 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands EUROMECH Contact person: Prof. Detlef Lohse
  Information:	Horizontal mixing is of fundamental importance for both the analysis of the evolution of shallow geophysical flows and also for the related applications (water quality assessment, interfacial transfer processes evaluation, ecosystems description, etc.). The aim of the Colloquium is to bring together researchers with interests in the theoretical description of the mixing dynamics and in its applications to shallow geophysical flows which characterize coastal, estuarine and riverine water bodies. Topics of interest range from the fundamentals of shallow-water turbulence, to the description of mixing in terms of lagrangian/eulerian statistics of tracers, to the implementation of simplified closures for use in solvers of practical application, to the evaluation of the mixing influence on natural ecosystems. Contributions of specialized character and interdisciplinary nature are both welcome.

• [502] Reinforced Elastomers: Fracture Mechanics statistical Physics and numerical simulation

  Date:	8 September 2008 - 10 September 2008
  Location:	Leibniz Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V., Dresden, Germany
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. G. Heinrich Leibniz Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. Postfach 120411 01005 Dresden, Germany Ph: +49 0 351 4658 360 Fax: +49 0 351 4658 362 e-mail: gheinrich@ipfdd.de Co-Chairpersons: Prof. Erwan Verron Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, BP 92101, F-44321 Nantes, cedex 3, France Ph:+33 3 40 37 68 42 Fax: +33 2 40 37 25 66 e-mail: erwan.verron@ec-nantes.fr Prof. Michael Kaliske Institute for Structural Analysis, Dresden University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering Nürnberger Straße 31a, D-01187 Dresden, Germany Ph: +49 351 463 34386 Fax: +49 351 463 37086 e-mail: michael.kaliske@tu-dresden.de EUROMECH Contact person: Prof. Michel Raous Website