Modelling Fluid Flow presents invited lectures, workshop summaries and a selection of papers from a recent international conference CMFF '03 on fluid technology. The lectures follow the current evolution and the newest challenges of the computational methods and measuring techniques related to fluid flow. The workshop summaries reflect the recent trends, open questions and unsolved problems in the mutually inspiring fields of experimental and computational fluid mechanics. The papers cover a wide range of fluids engineering, including reactive flow, chemical and process engineering, environmental fluid dynamics, turbulence modelling, numerical methods, and fluid machinery.

Since 1964 the main function of the European Mechanics Committee has been to arrange Euromech Colloquia. These are three- or four-day meetings for the discussion of current research on a specified and relatively narrow topic in mechanics, by about 50 specialists chosen for their active involvement in research in that topic. The organization of each Euromech Colloquium is entrusted by the Committee to one or two selected scientists of repute in the field, and these organizers are enjoined to achieve a friendly and informal forum for discussion, with a minimum of paper work and expenditure. Over 220 Euromech Colloquia have been held since 1964 (about 40 each in France, West Germany and Britain and the remainder in 18 countries in both western and eastern Europe) on a wide range of topics drawn from the mechanics of solid materials, hydrodynamics, gas dynamics and mechanical systems. The Committee believes that collectively, Euromech Colloquia have made a significant contribution to the exchange of ideas on topics in mechanics within Europe and have thereby helped to overcome the barriers to easy scientific communication in that sorely divided continent. A few years ago the European Mechanics Committee turned its atten tion to the possible need for European conferences on a larger scale than Euromech Colloquia.

This volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence, held at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in September 2006. With special emphasis given to fundamental aspects of the physics of turbulence, coverage includes experimental approaches to fundamental problems in turbulence, turbulence modeling and numerical methods, and geophysical and astrophysical turbulence.

Lagrangian aspects.- Lagrangian modeling and properties of particles with inertia.- Effect of Faxén forces on acceleration statistics of material particles in turbulent flow.- Lagrangian analysis of turbulent convection.- Linear and angular dynamics of an inertial particle in turbulence.- Collision rate between heavy particles in a model turbulent flow.- From cloud condensation nuclei to cloud droplets: a turbulent model.- Lagrangian statistics of inertial particles in turbulent flow.- Lagrangian statistics of two–dimensional turbulence in a square container.- Measurement of Lagrangian Particle Trajectories by Digital in-line Holography.- 3-D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) in gas flows using coloured tracer particles.- Two-particle dispersion in 2D inverse cascade turbulence and its telegraph equation model.- Numerical simulations of particle dispersion in stratified flows.- Instability and Transition.- Experimental study of the von Kármán flow from = 10 to 10: spontaneous symmetry breaking and turbulent bifurcations.- Flow reversals in a vertical channel.- Linear Instability of Streamwise Corner Flow.- DNS of turbulent plane Couette flow with emphasis on turbulent stripe.- Geometry of state space in plane Couette flow.- Linear and nonlinear instabilities of sliding Couette flow.- Localization in plane Couette edge dynamics.- Nonlinear optimal perturbations in plane Couette flow.- Order parameter in laminar-turbulent patterns.- Pattern formation in low Reynolds number plane Couette flow.- Quasi-stationary and chaotic convection in low rotating spherical shells.- Linear stability of 2D rough channels.- Transient turbulent bursting in enclosed flows.- On New Localized Vortex Solutions in the Couette-Ekman Layer.- Shear instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow.- Particle Tracking Velocimetry in Transitional Plane Couette Flow.- Experimental study of coherent structures in turbulent pipe flow.- Forced localized turbulence in pipe flows.- From localized to expanding turbulence.- Influence of test-rigs on the laminar-to-turbulent transition of pipe flows.- Interaction of turbulent spots in pipe flow.- Large-scale transitional dynamics in pipe flow.- Nonlinear coherent structures in a square duct.- Quantitative measurement of the life time of turbulence in pipe flow.- Experimental investigation of turbulent patch evolution in spatially steady boundary layers.- Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks.- Linear generation of multiple time scales by 3D unstable perturbations.- Convection at very high Rayleigh number: signature of transition from a micro-thermometer inside the flow.- Estimating local instabilities for irregular flows in the differentially heated rotating annulus.- Search for the “ultimate state” in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Rayleigh–Taylor instability in two dimensions and phase-field method.- Split energy cascade in quasi-2D turbulence.- Stabililty and laminarisation of turbulent rotating channel flow.- The vortical flow pattern exhibited by the channel flow on a rotating system just past transition under the influence of the Coriolis force.- Transient evolution and high stratification scaling in horizontal mixing layers.- Control of turbulent flows.- Toward cost-effective Control of Wall Turbulence for Skin Friction Drag Reduction.- Active control of turbulent boundary layer using an array of piezo-ceramic actuators.- Flat plate turbulent boundary-layer control using vertical LEBUs.- Estimation of the spanwise wall shear stress based on upstream information for wall turbulence control.- Interactions between vortex generators and a flat plate boundary layer. Application to the control of separated flows..- Modulated global mode of a controlled wake.- Swirl effects in turbulent pipe flow.- Control of an axisymmetric turbulent wake by a pulsed jet.- Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent mixed convection in enclosures with heated obstacles.-

This book contains a wealth of useful information on current research on viscoelasticity. By covering a broad variety of rheology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and viscoelasticity-related topics, this book is addressed to a wide spectrum of academic and applied researchers and scientists but it could also prove useful to industry specialists. The subject areas include, theory, simulations, biological materials and food products among others.