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• [533] Biomechanics of the Eye

  Date:	22 July 2013 - 24 July 2013
  Location:	University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr Rodolfo Repetto Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Genoa Via Montallegro 1, 16145, Genoa, Italy phone: +39 010 3532432 fax: +39 010 3532546 email: rodolfo.repetto@unige.it Co-Chairpersons: Jennifer Siggers Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK email: j.siggers@imperial.ac.uk Alessandro Stocchino Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Genoa, Via Montallegro 1, Genoa, Italy email: alessandro.stocchino@unige.it Michael Girard Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK email: m.girard@imperial.ac.uk Website
  Information:	Several physiological and pathological processes in the eye are closely related to fluid and/or solid mechanics, and for this reason the biomechanics community has devoted increasing attention to this area in recent years. If research in this area is to have clinical impact, it must be performed within a multidisciplinary framework, and this Colloquium is designed to bring together researchers with complementary expertise from different backgrounds, including clinicians, basic scientists, engineers and mathematical modellers. The topics of the Colloquium are any aspect of the physiology or pathology of the eye in which mechanics plays a role, including for example the following: tear film dynamics; mechanics of the cornea, sclera, iris and lens; aqueous humour motion and drainage; vitreous humour dynamics; retinal detachment; mechanics of glaucoma; eye movements

• [541] New Advances in the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Composites for Smart Engineering Design

  Date:	3 June 2013 - 6 June 2013
  Location:	Senigallia, Italy
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Stefano Lenci Department of Architecture, Buildings and Structures Polytechnic University of Marche via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy Phone +39-071-2204552, Fax: +39-071-2204576 Email: lenci@univpm.it Co-Chairperson: Prof. Jerzy Warminski Department of Applied Mechanics Lublin University of Technology Nadbystrzycka 36, 20-618 Lublin, Poland email: j.warminski@pollub.pl Website
  Information:	Joint colloquium EUROMECH with EUCASS This is made possible thanks to the European Project E-CAero "EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE OF AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS" (www.e-caero.com) The proposed Euromech Colloquium is aimed at constituting an event to join scientists working on linear and, mainly, on nonlinear dynamics, chaos and control of systems and structures made of composite materials for smart applications. Indeed, the first goal of the proposed Colloquium is that of gathering people working on the most recent modeling, theoretical, analytical, numerical, experimental and control achievements in the nonlinear dynamics of composites. There are still several open questions related to a full understanding of the nonlinear behavior of composites. Although all of them are in principle of interest for the scopes of the Colloquium, there are various key themes which are particularly attractive for the Colloquium. The first is the modeling. Works dealing with the modeling of purely mechanical as well as multi-physics behaviors are solicited, including, e.g., thermo-electrical-mechanical coupling. Also the emerging frontier of modeling multi-functional laminates are of interest, especially when the layers devoted to other functions strongly interact with the layers providing the mechanical strength. Belong to this points even works dealing with the development and the assessment of reduced order dynamical models, as well as efficient numerical algorithms developed to detect complex mechanical and dynamical behaviors. Another key issue is the exploitation of classical or modern control methods for optimizing the performances of composites materials and structures. Both open-loop and closed-loop applications of control methods are solicited if they are able to improve the performances and/or to reduces the costs, especially if they exploit the nonlinear dynamics of the uncontrolled or of the controlled system. The second major aim is that of pushing the transfer of theoretical results towards modern and innovative applications of composites, in any field of science and engineering. The richness of the nonlinear dynamical behavior, from the one side, and the richness of the mechanical behavior of composites, from the other side, are ready to be merged towards significant technological developments in this area, in order to reduce the gap between theory and practice. In this respect, any work presenting cutting-edge applications, even with “simple” theoretical/analytical/numerical background, will be highly welcome. At the same time, even “simple” applications of advanced and new behaviors of composites are solicited. There is no restrictions on the kind of technological area of interest, which can be classical (e.g. aeronautics), well-established (civil) or challenging for the future (e.g. bioengineering, MEMS). Prototypes development as well as preliminary experimental investigations of new devices are welcome, too. As far as the methodological approach is concerned, both multidisciplinary and multi-approach researches are worthy for the scopes of the Colloquium. The Conference will be organized within the Framework of the European Research Project “Centre of excellence for modern composites in applied aerospace and surface transport”, CEMCAST FP7-245479.
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• [542] Progress in statistical theory and pseudo-spectral DNS

  Date:	15 January 2013 - 18 January 2013
  Location:	Lyon, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Claude Cambon LMFA Ecole Centrale de Lyon 36 rue de Collongue 69134 Ecully cedex France phone: +33 (0) 4 7218 6161 fax: +33 (0) 4 7864 7145 email: claude.cambon@ec-lyon.fr Co-Chairperson: Prof. Ananias Tomboulides Department of Mechanical Engineering University ofWestern Macedonia Kozani 50100, Greece   phone: +30 24610 56630 fax: +30 24610 56631 email: ananiast@auth.gr or atompoulidis@uowm.gr   website
  Information:	This colloquium is inspired by the legacy of Steve A. Orszag, for both themes, statistical theory and pseudo-spectral DNS. The former ranges from Spectral Linear Theory to triadic nonlinear closures, with wave turbulence theory and generalised EDQNM (Eddy Damped Quasi-Normal Markovian) closure as examples. The latter is restricted to new challenges in fundamental aspects to turbulence, permitted by pseudo-spectral DNS techniques but connected with theory and modelling, with e.g. applications to subgrid scales, for Large Eddy Simulation, and to very large scales, in the infrared limit. Turbulence is also considered interacting with rotation, shear, density-stratication, magnetohydrodynamics.

• [543] Quantification of uncertainties in modeling and predictive simulations of fluids

  Date:	10 October 2013 - 11 October 2013
  Location:	Technische Universität München, Germany
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Dr. N. Adams Technische Universität München Lehrstuhl für Aerodynamik und Strömungsmechanik Boltzmannstrasse 15 D-85747 München Germany Email:Nikolaus.Adams@tum.de Co-chairperson: Prof. Wolfgan Schroeder Email:office@aia.rwth-aachen.de Website

• [544] Dense flows of soft objects: bringing together the cases of bubbles, droplets and cells

  Date:	13 May 2013 - 15 May 2013
  Location:	Grenoble, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. Gwennou Coupier Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy) CNRS et Université J. Fourier-Grenoble I, BP 87, 38402 Saint-Martin d’Hères, France Phone: + 33 4 76 51 47 60 Fax: +33 4 76 63 54 95 Email: gwennou.coupier@ujf-grenoble.fr Co-chairpersons: Prof. Dr. Ralf Seemann Universität des Saarlandes Campus E2 9, 66123 Saarbrücken , Germany Phone: +49 (0)681 302 71799 Fax: +49 (0)681 302 71799 Email: r.seemann@physik.uni-saarland.de Dr. Philippe Marmottant Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy) CNRS et Université J. Fourier-Grenoble I, BP 87, 38402 Saint-Martin d’Hères, France Phone: + 33 4 76 51 42 89 Fax: +33 4 76 63 54 95 Email: philippe.marmottant@ujf-grenoble.fr Website
  Information:	The goal of this colloquium is to bring together two communities that are both interested in the complex flows of dense suspensions of objects: drops and bubbles for one community and cells, lipid vesicles and capsules for the other. The aim is at a better understanding the behavior of dense flows, that qualitatively departs from dilute flows and second, the development of active manipulation of these soft objects within microfluidic devices, for lab-on-chip applications. Biological conditions (such as red blood cells in blood circulation) or efficiency requirements (in a droplet/bubble generator) indeed imply to consider concentration levels at which particular interactions between objects have to be considered. Interactions between objects modify their trajectories and cause shear-induced diffusion. Additional interaction with confining walls or adhesion controls the spatial organization of the suspensions. This often results in non-Newtonian rheological behavior, up to jamming/clogging when concentration increases. The recent advances in the handling or the simulation of isolated soft objects have brought a clear insight into their dynamics under flow. This knowledge can now be used as a basis for a bottom-up approach for a better understanding the dense flows of these objects in mildly confining geometries up to channel networks of complex geometry, such as blood capillary networks, porous media, and microfluidic chips. On the other hand, the multi-body and long ranged interactions, coupled with the deformability of the interfaces, have raised new challenges for numerical methods developers aiming at describing quantitatively the complexity of these flows. The consequent cooperative flow behavior requires the development of new theoretical concepts taking into account this multiscale rheology.

• [545] Frontiers in Finite Deformation Electromechanics

  Date:	21 May 2013 - 24 May 2013
  Location:	Tu Dortmund University, Germany
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. A. Menzel Institute of Mechanics Technische Universitaat Dortmund Leonard Euler Str. 5 Dortmund, Germany phone: +49 231 7557978 fax: +49 231 7552688 email: christina.mcdonagh@tu-dortmund.de Co-chairpersons: Prof. Ellen Kuhl Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 U.S.A. phone.: +1 650 450 0855 fax: +1 650 725 1587 email: ekuhl@stanford.edu Prof. Serdar Goktepe Department of Civil Engineering Middle East Technical University 06800 Ankara, Turkey phone : +90 312 210 2441 fax: +90 312 210 5401 email: sgoktepe@metu.edu.tr  Website
  Information:	Experimental investigation, modeling and simulation of smart materials attract a continuously growing research community from mechanics, biomechanics, material science and applied mathematics. The goal of this EUROMECH colloquium is to actively bring researchers in these fields together and to focus on the modeling and simulation of electro-mechanically coupled materials as well as of magneto-electromechanical continua, both at large deformations. The colloquium is intended to focus on different fields of applications, with emphasis on theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects. Typical examples for classes of materials considered are electro-active and magneto-active polymers, as well as composites thereof, and active biological tissues such as muscles or the human heart.

• [546] Combustion Dynamics and Combustion Noise

  Date:	13 May 2013 - 17 May 2013
  Location:	Villa Vigoni, I-22017 Loveno di Menaggio (CO), Italy
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Oliver Paschereit Chair of Fluid Dynamics, TU Berlin Müller-Breslau-Str. 8 D- 10623 Berlin, Germany Email: oliver.paschereit@tu-berlin.de Co-Chairperson: Dr.-Ing. Jonas P. Moeck Chair of Fluid Dynamics, TU Berlin  Website
  Information:	Combustion generated sound is an important aspect to consider in the development of modern energy and propulsion technology. The three main phenomena encountered in this field are: direct combustion noise, indirect combustion noise, and combustion instabilities. Combustion noise refers to a one-way coupling between sound field and flame, where turbulent fluctuations in the approach flow cause unsteadiness in the heat release rate, which in turn is a source of sound. Feedback from the acoustic waves into the flow field and the flame are not considered here. Sound is also generated indirectly when temperature non-uniformities due to unsteady combustion are convected through regions with mean-flow gradients, such as a nozzle. In a confined situation, acoustic waves caused by unsteady combustion are reflected from the system's boundaries and eventually return to the burner flow field and the flame, where they generate a further perturbation in the heat release rate. Under certain phase conditions, an unstable feedback may arise resulting in an amplification of the fluctuations until a distinct single-frequency oscillation at a well-defined amplitude is established. In a practical situation, all three phenomena may be present, and a clear distinction between them is often difficult to accomplish. The purpose of the 2013 EUROMECH 546 colloquium on Combustion Dynamics and Combustion Noise is to promote collaboration between professionals in various engineering fields. Expert scientists and engineers will exchange ideas and gain awareness on the development of modern energy and propulsion technology as it relates to combustion generated sound.

• [547] Trends in Open Shear Flow Instability

  Date:	1 July 2013 - 3 July 2013
  Location:	Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Lutz Lesshafft Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique France e-mail:lutz@ladhyx.polytechnique.fr Co-chairperson: Prof. François Gallaire Ecole Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland Website
  Information:	Joint colloquium  This is made possible thanks to the European Project E-CAero "EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE OF AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS" (www.e-caero.com) Modern approaches to hydrodynamic instability have known an active development in recent years. For instance, multi-dimensional eigenmodes, non-normal optimal perturbation growth, or pseudo-spectra are now routinely computed for increasingly complex flow configurations. The meeting provides a forum for a systematic and critical presentation of the various conceptual tools that are currently available or being actively explored. Emphasis is placed on a discussion of the premises and the physical settings that these approaches pertain to. Furthermore, the potential of classical local analysis tools for current research is highlighted. All methodology should be presented in the context of a concrete open shear flow configuration. Session topics include: -free shear layers -jets and wakes -boundary layers -complex flows (including biological and industrial applications) -environmental and geophysical flows

• [548] Direct and Variational Methods for non smooth problems in Mechanics

  Date:	24 June 2013 - 26 June 2013
  Location:	Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Géry de Saxcé Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille Villeneuve d'Ascq, France Phone: +33 3 203 371 172 Fax: +33 3 203 37 153 Email: gery.desaxce@univ-lille.fr Co-chairperson: Prof. Gianpietro Del Piero Università di Ferrara Italy Website
  Information:	In solid mechanics, engineers and scientists are faced to a large class of nonsmooth phenomena. A common feature to these problems is that they are unilateral, in the sense that their formulation and modelling require a systematic use of inequalities. This colloquium is a joint-meeting of two groups. The first one (Limit states of materials and structures-direct methods) is active in plastic limit analysis and its powerful extension to variable repeated loadings called shakedown analysis. The second one (Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis) is more focused on the formulation of the unilateral problems and in the quest of the most appropriate solution technique in areas such as contact and adherence, friction, interfaces and no-tension materials. Emphasis will be put on creative ideas, as opposed to technicalities and to purely numerical contributions.

• [549] Current status and future research directions in the development and application of Immersed Boundary Methods

  Date:	17 June 2013 - 19 June 2013
  Location:	The Netherlands
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. ir. W.P. Breugem University of Technology Delft Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics Leeghwaterstraat 21 2628CA Delft, Netherlands Phone/fax: +31-15-2788663/2947 Email: w.p.breugem@tudelft.nl Co-chairperson: Prof.R.Verzicco Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica Via del Politecnico 1 Roma 00133, Italy Phone/fax: +390672597170/+39062021351 Email: verzicco@uniroma2.it Website
  Information:	So-called Immersed Boundary Methods (IBM) are gaining an ever increasing popularity in the CFD community. In these methods, an obstacle is represented on a non-conforming grid, often by adding extra momentum sources in the momentum equations. Ease of application and economy in use are reasons for using these methods. This colloquium is a follow-up of the very successful colloquium 507 on Immersed Boundaries in 2009. Many open problems were observed at this colloquium, and many exciting developments have taken place since, for instance with respect to the application of IBM with higher order numerical methods, the application to ever larger scale problems, problems which require a very careful treatment of the boundaries, such as acoustic problems, and the so-called grid-locking problem which is experienced by solid bodies moving moving over a fixed grid. This colloquium aims to address the new developments and applications since the last colloquium.

• [550] Multi-physical couplings in solid polymers: experiments and modeling

  Date:	1 July 2013 - 5 July 2013
  Location:	Poitiers, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. S. Castagnet Institut Prime Department of Physics and Mechanics of Materials ENSMA, 1 Avenue Clement Ader, BP 40109 86961 Futuroscope cedex, France phone: +33 549 498 226 fax: +33 549 498 238 email: sylvie.castagnet@ensma.fr Co-chairperson: Prof. A. Lion Institute of Mechanics Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Universität der Bundeswehr Munich Werner Heisenberg Weg 30 85579 Neubiberg, Germany phone: +49 089 6004 2494 fax: +49 089 6004 2386 email: alexander.lion@unibw.de Website
  Information:	Interactions between polymers and their surrounding environment or exposure to external fields may influence the mechanical material properties, lead to damage evolution or provoke degradation processes. Strong couplings, multiple time scales and pronounced gradients make the experimental characterization, the constitutive representation and the numerical simulation of these phenomena to big challenges. This colloquium aims to crosslink different approaches. To this end, (i) thermo-mechanical couplings, (ii) liquid or gas diffusion and (iii) associated chemical reactions are discussed. Electro-magneto-mechanical couplings will also be addressed to enlarge the scientific discussion about current challenges for both the understanding and the modelling of the multiphysics in solid polymers. The colloquium will focus on unreinforced polymers. Special interest will be paid on fully-coupled approaches.

• [551] Mechanics Fibre reinforced Materials: Theory and Applications

  Date:	2 September 2013 - 5 September 2013
  Location:	University of Nottingham, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. R. Ogden School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Email: Raymond.Ogden@glasgow.ac.uk Co-chairpersons: Prof. Kostas P. Soldatos School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK Prof. José Merodio Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structures, E.T.S. Ingenieros Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain Website
  Information:	EUROMECH Colloquium 551 aims to focus on developments in the mechanics of fibre-reinforced materials, including theoretical, analytical and experimental developments and their applications. The main concern will be with the linear and nonlinear elastic, viscoelastic and plastic behaviour of fibre-reinforced solids but will also include fluid-like behaviour and constitutive modelling. The type of materials to be considered could range from soft solids such as biological tissues and fibre-reinforced polymers to harder materials such as carbon-fibre or glass-fibre reinforced materials. There will be particular interest in the effect of fibre reinforcement of material integrity and stability from both the static and dynamic perspectives.

• [552] Modelling Atmospheric and Oceanic flows: insights from laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

  Date:	24 September 2013 - 26 September 2013
  Location:	Berlin, Germany
  Contact:	Chairperson:   Dr. Thomas von Larcher Freie Universitaet Berlin Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Sciences Institute for Mathematics Arnimallee 6, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem Germany Phone: +49 30 838 56 963 Fax: +49 30 838 75 412 Email: larcher@math.fu-berlin.de Co-chairpersons: Dr. Paul D. Williams  Dr Paul Williams, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BB, UK Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 8424, Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 8316 Email: p.d.williams@reading.ac.uk Dr Wolf-Gerrit Fruh School of Engineering & Physical Sciences; Mechanical Engineering NS 2.10, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Phone: +44 (0) 131 451 4374 Email: w.g.fruh@hw.ac.uk   Website
  Information:	This colloquium will pull together approaches and recent results from laboratory experiments and corresponding numerical simulations, both performed to improve our understanding of atmospheric and oceanic fluid motion. As sufficient computer resources and numerical codes become available, the interplay of numerical simulations and experimental research is gaining increasing interest in the scientific community. The main focus of the colloquium is the comparison of both, results of laboratory experiments and of adequate numerical simulations with the particular aim to accurately simulate laboratory flows using numerical models. With the focus on combined laboratory and numerical investigations of a system, we will address on the experimental side new designs of experiments on a laboratory scale, developments in instrumentation and data acquisition techniques, and the computer-based analysis of experimental results. On the numerical side, we will address developments in simulation techniques from model formulation to assimilation techniques of experimental data into the model configuration, initialisation or forcing. The presentation of results from corresponding experiments and models will bring the two sides together with a discussion of methodologies of reliable lab-model comparisons. Topics:   Rotating flows Balanced and unbalanced flows Atmospheric flows (Earth and other planets) Oceanic flows Jets, waves and vortices Turbulent flows Advances in numerical methods Validation of numerical methods using laboratory experiments Technical and methodological advances in laboratory experiments Data assimilation

• [555] Small-scale numerical methods for multi-phase flows

  Date:	28 August 2013 - 30 August 2013
  Location:	I2M-ENSCBP, Pessac, Bordeaux, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Stéphane VINCENT I2M-TREFLE 16, avenue Pey-Berland 33607 Pessac Cedex, France Phone: +33 5 40 00 27 07 Fax: +33 5 40 00 66 68 Email: vincent@enscbp.fr Co-chairperson: Prof. Ruben SCARDOVELLI University of Bologna Via Zamboni, 33 40126 Bologna, Italia
  Information:	The numerical simulation of multi-phase flows involving immiscible phases generally considers the interaction between an ambient fluid and another phase (solid particles, droplets, bubbles, films, sprays, jets). Either deformable grids, which are adapted to the interface, or fixed grids, with an independent representation of the interface, such as front-tracking, volume-of-fluid, level-set and phase-field, can be used to investigate these flows. The direct numerical simulation (DNS) of multi-phase flows can be achieved with different mathematical models (Navier-Stokes, Boltzmann, Saint-Venant, Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)) with emphasis on different physical aspects of the flow (representation of the capillary force with constant and variable surface tension, phase change, wettability and contact lines, and more complex phenomena involving electric and magnetic fields). Other topics of interest to the colloquium are the large-eddy simulation (LES) and the multi-scale modeling of multi-phase flows. The main goal of this colloquium is to bring together developers and users of different numerical approaches and codes to share their experience in the development and validation of the algorithms and discuss the difficulties and limitations of the different methods and their pros and cons. The focus will be mainly on fixed-grid methods, however adaptive and unstructured grids are also welcome with the aim to compare and validate the different approaches. Three invited speakers will participate under invitation of the organizing committee. Forty to sixty invited participants are expected during three days during plenary sessions only.