711 Complex Fluids and Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics: Methods and Applications

 

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for a Minisymposium on Complex Fluids and Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics: Methods and Applications at the 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics: WCCM13. In this Minisymposium, we will be examining numerical methods and applications in the area of computational non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and rheology: the study of the flow behavior of complex fluids such as polymers, gel, pastes and slurries, liquid crystals, glasses, suspensions, granular materials, polymer blends and emulsions. This Minisymposium will be a forum for highlighting advances in numerical methods for non-Newtonian fluids, from stabilization and regularization methods, coupling/splitting algorithms, boundary conditions, and material model development. Papers focused on issues specific to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics formalisms such as viscoelasticity, yield stress, phase change and multiphase materials are encouraged. This Minisymposium will allow cross-fertilization between separate, but related disciplines.