Slow Viscous Flows with Interfaces

David Wood

  •  7 Jul 2025 - 18 Jul 2025
     8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Organisers:
Yvonne Stokes (University of Adelaide)
Edward Hinton (University of Melbourne)
Anja Slim (Monash University)
Scott McCue (Queensland University of Technology)
Linda Cummings (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Program Description:
Slow viscous flows with interfaces are seen in many different industrial and natural processes including optical fibre and window glass fabrication, chemical etching, lava flows, landslides, underground salt plumes, the tear film on the eye, solidification, and more. Mathematical modelling can identify and quantify important industrial control parameters, enable solution of difficult inverse problems, and yield basic scientific understanding. In the first week of the program an introductory lecture will describe a variety of different problems already studied and future opportunities, along with the types of mathematical tools that are applicable to their solution. This will be followed by discussion and identification of problems to be explored further. Throughout both weeks, other participants will also give talks on potential/current research with an aim to present work which might lead to collaboration. Considerable time will be spent throughout the two weeks on discussion and work by different groups on problems of interest.
Program Structure:
 
Talk titles

Name Title
Dr Anne Boschman Phase-Field Modelling of Adhesive Interfaces.
Prof Darren Crowdy Novel mathematics for Marangoni effects in slow viscous flows.
Prof Linda Cummings Thin film fluid dynamics in materials science.
Dr Michael Dallaston Thin film flow of power-law fluids.
Prof Marco Fontelos Lopez Discretely self-similar solutions in thin films and jets models.
Prof Maria Gonzalez Bulk-boundary eigenvalues for bilaplacian problems.
Assoc Prof Ed Green Thin films of complex and multiphase fluids.
Dr Brendan Harding Comparing regular and singular perturbation methods for estimating the inertial lift force.
Dr Ed Hinton Thin films of complex and multiphase fluids.
Prof Anette Hosoi Hairy Hydrodynamics.
Dr Hangjie Ji Modeling, analysis, and control of droplet dynamics.
Dr Anna Kalogirou Evaporation and deposition of colloidal droplets on an inclined substrate.
Dr Noa Kraitzman Modelling sea ice at different scales: from microstructure to effective properties.
Prof John Lister Peeling and pushing.
Prof Kara Maki Characterization of Particle Transport and Deposition on Heterogeneous Surfaces.
Prof Scott McCue Hele-Shaw flows with two interfaces close together.
Prof Yvonne Stokes The complex stability landscape for drawing of holey fibres.
Dr Alex Tam Viscous fluid mixtures: biofilms and ionic liquids.
Dr Rahil Valani Nonlinear dynamics of passive and active particles in microchannel flows.
Prof Stephen Wilson Some recent developments in the mathematical modelling of the evaporation of sessile droplets.

Participant List:
Edward Hinton (University of Melbourne)
Yvonne Stokes (University of Adelaide)
Darren Crowdy (Imperial College London)
Edward Green (University of Adelaide)
Linda Cummings (New Jersey Institute of Technology) (Online)
Anna Kalogirou (University of Nottingham)
Anja Slim (Monash University)
Stephen Wilson (University of Bath)
Rahil Valani (University of Oxford)
Kara Maki (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Marco Fontelos (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC, Spain)
Hangjie Ji (North Carolina State University)
Scott McCue (Queensland University of Technology)
Anette Hosoi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Josephine Hoesel (Aix Marseille University)
Maria Gonzalez Nogueras (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
John Lister (University of Cambridge)
Brendan Harding (Victoria University of Wellington)
Alexander Tam (The University of South Australia)
Noa Kraitzman (Macquarie University)
Bronwyn Hajek (University of South Australia)
Michael Dallaston (Queensland University of Technology)
Rory Ward (University of Melbourne)
Xinyi Yang (University of Melbourne)
Fiaz Ur Rehman (Monash University.)
Rodney Dharma (University of Melbourne)
Caitriona Lightbody (University of Adelaide)
Tharindi Thathsarani Amarathunge Achchige (University of South Australia)
Anne Boschman (Monash University)
Antony Selvan (University of Adelaide)
Matthew Walker (University of Melbourne)
Saikumar Bheemarasetty (University of California San Diego)

Registration:

  • Registration is now closed
  • Arrival date: 6 July 2025
  • Departure date: 18 July 2025

ASSOCIATED EVENTS
MATRIX Wine and Cheese Afternoon 8 July 2025
On the first Tuesday of each program, MATRIX provides a pre-dinner wine and cheese afternoon. Produce is locally-sourced to showcase delicacies from the region.