This IUTAM Symposium concerns an important topic in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics nowadays. It aims at achieving a unified approach which will regroup the knowledge coming from theoretical, experimental, numerical simulation, modeling and flow-control aspects of separated unsteady flows with respect to incompressible and compressible flow regimes. The subject areas are receiving a great deal of impetus from international research groups, stimulated by major research programs related to this topic, involving major industrial companies especially in Aeronautics in various countries and by heading Government Programs. It aims to bring together the groups of researchers working on the problems related to the understanding and the prediction of unsteady, separated flows. This symposium is inspired from a previously held IUTAM symposium on unsteady separated flows in Toulouse, in 2002 by the present host Institution, a symposium that has been quite a success in the field. The present IUTAM symposium is an essential extension of the topic to control theory and applications in respect of unsteady separated flows.
The symposium of 2007 will address physical aspects of the dynamics related to unsteady separation in incompressible flows and flows under compressibility effects, and the state of the art methods for modeling these kinds of flows in high Reynolds numbers. Special attention will be paid to control theory and applications, especially including feed-back effects for the attenuation of unsteadiness and of flow separation. The understanding of the flow-physics and their efficient turbulence modeling remains a serious problem in a number of engineering applications, including Aeronautics and Aeroelasticity. Furthermore, the study of advanced flow modeling techniques, especially to control high-Reynolds number transitional and turbulent flows involving unsteady separation, is a crucial need in the above-mentioned domains of fundamental and applied research nowadays.
It is intended that people working in experimental investigation of unsteady separated flows, those working in the numerical simulation and turbulence modeling of these flows and those working in the domain of control theory should attend in order to stimulate the discussion in advancing the physical analysis of the related mechanisms and therefore to offer improvement in modeling and control of important unsteady phenomena arising in this class of flows. In this way, the symposium will contribute to a better insight of this important category of flows from a fundamental and applied research point of view by means of a synergy among the three main approaches: theoretical, experimental and prediction methods.
The Symposium will start on Monday, 18 June 2007 , and will end on Friday, 22 June. It will consist of single plenary sessions with invited lectures (45 minutes), selected oral presentations (20 minutes), discussions on special topics and posters. There will be an attribution of best poster award, as in the IUTAM2002 Symposium.
Symposium languages:
Official language for the Symposium is English