Scope

Flow transitions and instabilities in interfacial and field-driven flows arise in broad spectrum of natural and engineered systems, e.g., industrial applications like coating flows, film reactors to microfluidic applications to space-enabling technologies to geophysical flows and physiological flows like pulmonary flow and corneal drainage. These exhibit rich dynamics involving formation of complex spatio-temporal wave patterns. While instabilities may hinder conventional processes, they also enable controlled pattern formation across micro- to macro-scales, with emerging applications in additive manufacturing and soft materials. Understanding these phenomena requires integrated experimental, theoretical, and computational efforts, spanning stability analysis, reduced-order modelling, direct numerical simulations, and molecular-level approaches.

What is Our Goal?

The symposium aims to bring together researchers across the globe to discuss the up-to-date progress made in modelling and experiments of these instabilities for utilizing them in design of new materials and processes.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

• Complex Fluids and Soft Matter
• Field-Mediated Control
• Film Flows and Wave Dynamics
• Fluid–Fluid Interactions
• Fluid–Structure Interactions
• Micro and Macro-Scale Instabilities
• Molecular-Scale modelling of Interfaces
• Multiphase Flows
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Reduced-Order Modelling