Dynamics and stability of thin liquid films and slender jets: workshop proposal

液体薄膜和细长射流的流体动力学对许多工业、生物医学和日常生活应用具有重要意义，并伴随着丰富的行为和图案的形成。因此，它们在文献中受到了相当大的关注；特别是在过去的几年里，在这一领域见证了大量的活动。向EPSRC提交这项建议是为了申请支助资金，以便于2007年9月26日至28日在伦敦帝国理工学院(ICL)数学研究所举办一次为期三天的会议，会议将审查该领域的最新令人兴奋的发展。这将为促进工程学、应用数学、化学和物理学不同领域的研究人员之间的互动提供必要的论坛，否则这些互动是不可能的，这将导致跨学科合作。这次会议将由欧洲力学学会(EUROMECH)主办，它将是一个前沿研究研讨会，而不是一个利益分配在平行会议上的简单会议。我们将有一个单独的演讲轨道，其间穿插着讨论和海报会议，这可能会在参与者之间引发新的研究问题和合作。

The fluid dynamics of thin liquid films and slender jets are of central importance to numerous industrial, biomedical and daily-life applications and are accompanied by rich behaviour and pattern formation. As a result, they have received considerable attention in the literature; the last few years in particular have witnessed a great deal of activity in this area. This proposal is submitted to the EPSRC in order to request supporting funding to host a three-day meeting in the Mathematics Institute, Imperial College London (ICL), between 26-28 September 2007, which will examine the latest exciting developments in this field. This will provide the necessary forum for promoting interactions between researchers from different areas in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics that would not have been possible otherwise and which will lead to inter-disciplinary collaborations. This meeting, which will be organised under the auspices of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH), will be a leading edge research workshop rather than a simple conference with interests divided among parallel sessions. We will have a single track of presentations interspersed with discussion and poster sessions that will likely spark off new research questions and collaborations among the participants.