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Professor Patrick Huerre
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CISM International Centre
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List of EUROMECH Colloquia in 2008







  • [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

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