This is to announce the FLUISTCOM Queen's University of Belfast Workshop entitled: "Introduction to Fluid Structure Interaction Numerical Aspects and Coupling Software with Applications"

This international workshop will take place place in the framework of the European Marie Curie Research project FLUISTCOM (Fluid-Structure Interaction for Combustion Systems).

*FLUISTCOM Project

The FLUISTCOM project unites researchers from 5 different countries in the interdisciplinary field of fluid / structure interaction for turbulent combustion systems. This action is one of the first Marie Curie Research and Training Networks funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme. The research activities in the FLUISTCOM project are towards improved understanding of transient combustion and its coupling with combustor wall vibration. The objective is to come to well validated models of transient combustion and wall vibration. This can lead to designs and design rules of combustors that are extremely robust even in combustion oscillatory situations. The reliable operation at low flame temperatures and accordingly extremely low nitric oxide emissions in large-scale power generation will be supported this way

*Queen's University Belfast, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

The main objective at Queen's is the study and implemention of the fluid-structure capability related to unsteady combustion. Using a combined approach of theoretical analysis, numerical calculations and experimental investigations provided by the partners, the research aims at developing new or advanced knowledge of Fluid Structure Interaction for application in industrial design.

The web-site of the workshop is: http://www.me.qub.ac.uk/fluistcom/