A Report of the Lake Vyrnwy Meeting
Unlike the cold snowy weather of the 2013 meeting, sixty four delegates were treated to glorious sunshine as they met at the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel in Mid Wales for the Institute's Annual Conference, dedicated this year to the topics: ‘Rheometry and General Rheology'
Delegates, who came from some fourteen different countries, gave a total of thirty four presentations including both experimental and theoretical work as well as some interesting applications. A full list of the topics covered in the meeting is given later in this report.
A part of the meeting was given over to British Society of Rheology business, including the award to Jason Stokes of the 2013 Annual Award of the BSR. Jason’s Annual Award Lecture followed and the session finished with the Annual General Meeting of the Society.
At the conference dinner we listened to Jeffery Giacomin who entertained us with a miscellany of pictures and comments giving a snapshot of his view of the world around him. He was followed by Peter Townsend who gave a short tribute to Ken Walters as he approached his eightieth birthday later in the year. (See the article in our news archive for more on this)
Accompanying Persons Programme
The meeting included a well supported accompanying persons programme. Fifteen partners of delegates enjoyed the excellent facilities at the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel as well as the attractions of the wonderful scenery around Lake Vyrnwy
A Ful List of the Conference Presentations.
Eric SHAQFEH
Interpreting the Interfacial Stress Rheometer
Gerry FULLER
Drainage and Dewetting of Thin Films in the Presence of Interfacial Viscoelasticity
Michal RENARDY
Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Flows for a Model of a Thixotropic Yield Stress Fluid
Don BAIRD
Influence of Fiber Flexibility on Fiber Orientation during Processing Operations
Omar MATAR
Bubble rise in the presence of chemical reactions and non-Newtonian effects
Bill MILNE
SAW and FBAR Devices for Lab-on-a-chip Applications
Xue Feng YUAN
Toward Large Scale Parallel Computer Simulation of Viscoelastic Fluid Flow: A Study of Benchmark Flow Problems
Joao MAIA
Thermo-rheological behavior and its relationship with structure development of thermoplastic polyurethanes in extensional flows
Jae HYUN
Intriguing nonlinear instability phenomena occurring in film blowing process
Roger TANNER
Reconciling theory and experiment for suspensions
Christian CLASEN
Soft particles in confinements
Jeff GIACOMIN
Dilute rigid dumbbell suspensions in large-amplitude oscillatory shear flow: normal stress difference responses
Paul SLATTER
The rheological characterisation of slurries with settling particles
Manfred WAGNER
A consistent model for elongational flow of polymer melts and solutions based on the interchain tube pressure
Cris GALLEGOS
Rheological Characterisation and Flow Modelling of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Dysphagia Support
Bill FRITH
Gels formed from small peptide and amino-acid derivatives, their novel rheology as probed by bulk and particle tracking rheological methods
Francisco CHINESTA
Multiscale modelling of dilute and concentrated suspensions of rigid particles
Martin LAUN
Rheotens tests and viscoelastic simulations related to high speed spinning of polyamide 6.
Rob POOLE
Hibernating turbulence in Newtonian and dilute polymer solutions
Corneliu BALAN
The influence of patterned surface on the rheometry of simple and complex fluids
Octavio MANERO
Flows of viscoelastic liquids through a contraction-expansion geometry with various contraction ratios: pressure drop and flow visualization
Suzanne FIELDING
Instabilities in time-dependent flows of complex fluids
Jonathan EVANS
Stick-slip singularity for PTT fluids
Oliver HARLEN
Jetting and jet break-up of complex fluids – extreme extensional rheometry
Xin Kai LI
Non-Newtonian lubricants in thin film flows
Jorg LAEUGER
An enhanced rotational rheometer with two motors
Ralph OLIVER
Ken, Rheology and Life