New Zealand, February 12, 2018

The conference Recent Advances in Moving Boundary Problems
in Mechanics will take place from Feb 5-8 2018 in
Christchurch, New Zealand. There will be a wide range of
practical topics under discussion, including fluid-
structure interaction, free surface flows, flows over soft
tissues and textiles, flows involving accretion/erosion,
flows through deformable porous media, material forming
and shape optimisation.

Description:

 

Many problems in mechanics involve deformable domains with  

moving boundaries. Examples include fluid-structure  

interaction, free surface flows, flows over soft tissues  

and textiles, flows involving accretion/erosion, flows  

through deformable porous media, material forming, shape  

optimisation, to name but a few. The interaction of the  

moving boundary with the participating media leads to  

fascinating phenomena in a very broad range of contexts  

such as flutter, wave-breaking, dune formation, ripple  

formation on the ocean floor, flow instabilities,  

structure resonance and failure, atherosclerosis, ice  

formation on aircraft wings. 

 

This symposium, which is going to be the first IUTAM  

Symposium in New Zealand, aims to gather the community of  

engineers and scientists involved in moving boundary and  

related problems in mechanics. 

 

The symposium will facilitate a mix of researchers working  

on the development of related mathematical methods and  

algorithms, and applications of recent and ongoing  

problems. We also encourage researchers performing  

experiments related to moving boundary problems to  

participate. Since the community of researchers involved  

in moving boundary problems in mechanics is fairly  

fragmented, we believe that this symposium will be a  

unique opportunity to cross-fertilise ideas and concepts  

from different disciplines of mechanics and foster  

engineering applications.