PAS

Patterns and Surfaces

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The proposed international partnership with the US, Japan, Canada and Russia as third countries and France, Turkey and Israel as beneficiary counties is focused on multi-phase flows that have technological applications. The science focus will be pattern generation, mixing, instabilities, and the control of such flows. The partnership has unique research aspects. The substantial resources of the partner countries in the target research areas will create a super-class status for the current research programs in the field. More importantly, early researchers from the beneficiary countries will receive an outstanding experience and become more marketable in the 21st century workplace.

Intellectual Impacts: The partnership will advance multiphase fluid and thermal sciences with several technological applications including bio-sensors, drug delivery devices, flow instability and space enabling technologies for a multitude of industries related to pharmaceuticals, metallurgy and energy. Key science issues associated with patterns and instabilities in multiphase flows will be resolved. The proposed collaboration will by virtue of its impact encourage ultimate partnerships between industry and academe and benefit the economy of the Europe and Associated Countries.

Broader Impacts: The project will enhance the training of several young researchers in cutting edge international research settings. Dissemination will be achieved by journal publications, webminars and web sites.

Transfer of Knowledge: The combined expertise of partner and MS/AC countries will result in transfer of knowledge via site visits and workshops. It will include numerical and analytical methods ranging from spectral and finite volume methods to weak nonlinear techniques as well as experimental techniques associated with nanotechnology to microgravity. The transfer of knowledge will take place in both directions and will become the permanent foundation for sustained collaboration.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

The complex discipline of thermal-fluid mechanics may yield many new industrial applications that could benefit society. Now, a new team of young scientists is taking up the challenge.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Science and technology are evolving at an unprecedented rate, yielding many new applications that will change the way we live and work. One specific discipline, thermal-fluid mechanics, could have a significant impact on the global economy, from improving drug delivery in patients to helping develop energy conversion technology. The EU-funded project 'Patterns and surfaces' (http://films-lab.univ-lille1.fr/IRSES-PaS/IRSES-PaS/IRSES_PaS.html (PAS)) is strengthening collaborative research on the topic through institutes and universities in Canada, France, Israel, Japan, Russia, Turkey and the United States.

With the variety of applications in thermal fluids engineering requiring different teams, experiments and calculations, international collaboration can pave the way to strong technological and economic impacts. Against this backdrop, the project is encouraging international experience for its upcoming researchers and scientists, fostering professional excellence, global competence and global consciousness. It is focusing on the theme of multi-phase fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, encouraging collaboration with countries that have considerable expertise in the field.

To achieve its aims, the project is opening up high-level education opportunities in thermal-fluid sciences to budding scientists and early-stage researchers. All countries chosen for the project boast robust industries linked to the field, ensuring faster uptake of these researchers who stand to encourage innovation and development. Specific topics being studied include Faraday instability, magneto-acoustics wave phase conjugation for flow metrology, Benard Marangoni instability and pattern generation, and contact line dynamics and particle collection.

For example, research in Faraday instability is looking at the physics between miscible fluids that could be used to develop novel industrial technologies. Research on flow metrology using magneto-acoustic phase conjugation is being applied to the Faraday experiments to characterise the flow along with a tomography of mixed liquids.

With such complex experiments and studies, the project team is also reaching out to experts on a global level through workshops and conferences. These events are being broadcast online and being made available on the project website, along with a number of key publications on the topic. Enhanced study in thermal-fluid mechanics is bound to offer new industry opportunities not only for Europe but for the world on the whole.