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Host: Fields Institute
Homepage: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/fluid_motion/
Description:
There is tremendous interest in the development and application of advanced computational techniques for simulating the motion of an incompressible fluid driven by flexible immersed structures, in large part owing to the multitude of applications in physiology and biology. Active biological tissue is typically constructed of fibers that are surrounded by fluid; the fibers not only hold the tissue together but also transmit forces that ultimately result in fluid motion. In other cases, the fluid may flow through flexible conduits such as a blood vessels or airways that both react to and affect the fluid dynamics. Additional examples arise in the context of external fluid flows in biological and engineering applications, such as dynamics of insect wings, flagellated or ciliated organisms, suspensions of blood cells and other synthetic particles, parachute dynamics, and so on.
The workshop will include two tutorials targeted to graduate students and junior mathematicians, with the goal of providing training opportunities to young scientists.
The meeting will be organized around three main themes:
Formulation and analysis of the underlying governing equations.
Algorithmic and computational issues related to increasing accuracy and efficiency through use of adaptivity, novel time-stepping schemes and parallelism.
Applications to problems in the biological, physical and engineering sciences.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Communications in Computational Physics after the workshop.
Speakers: John Dolbow (Duke University), Lisa Fauci (Tulane University), Zhilin Li (North Caroline State University), John Lowengrub (University of California at Irvine)
Date received: October 12, 2009
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