Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 30, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
Granular materials, alone or in combination with a fluid, are ubiquitous in both nature and industry. These materials show a rich variety of complex phenomena in these settings. As the physical underpinnings of these behaviors continue to be revealed and new phenomena continue to be discovered, there has been sustained and strong international research on this topic with contributors spanning multiple disciplines including chemical, civil and mechanical engineering, physics, applied maths, and earth and planetary sciences. In addition, there are intriguing links between granular materials and systems such as glasses, colloids, emulsions and foams. This Fifth Gordon Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flows will afford active researchers in the field an opportunity to learn about recent discoveries and to engage in discussions with their colleagues. Invited speakers and discussion leaders will catalyze these interactions by addressing a range of topics such as dilute and dense phase flows, jamming, regime transitions, multiphase systems, avalanches, instabilities, patterns, segregation/mixing, and related phenomena.
A list of preliminary session topics and speakers is displayed below (discussion leaders are noted in italics). The detailed program is currently being developed by the Conference Chair and will be available by February 20, 2010. Please check back for updates.
- Granular Gases
(Rodrigo Soto / Maria-Jose Ruiz-Montero / S. Henri Noskowicz)
- Jets and Splashes in Granular Fluids
(Christine Hrenya / Sidney Nagel / Devaraj van der Meer / Philip Metzger)
- Contact Mechanics and Acoustics
(Chiara Daraio / Xiaoping Jia)
- Dense Flows - Hydrodynamic Approaches
(Javier Brey / Hisao Hayakawa / V. Kumaran)
- Dense Flows - Phenomenology
(Robert Behringer / Einat Ahoronov / Yoel Forterre / Jean-Noel Roux)
- Suspensions
(Eric Clément / Eric Brown / Rut Besseling)
- Locomotion and Self-Propulsion
(Arshad Kudrolli / Daniel Goldman / Sriram Ramaswamy)
- Dense Systems - New Approaches to Constitutive Equations
(Antoinette Tordesillas / Jennifer Sinclair Curtis / Jacek Tejchman)
- Packings
(Bulbul Chakraborty / Sal Torquato / Mathias Schröter / Sean McNamara)