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Research Associate Position in Coventry

Posted by on 7 July 2017 Comments Off on Research Associate Position in Coventry

Research Associate – Flow Measurement and Fluid Mechanics Research Centre

Coventry University

Fixed Term for 23 months

An EPSRC-funded, postdoctoral Research Associate position is available at Coventry University working on the transition to turbulence in non-Newtonian shear flows. The successful applicant will work with Dr Chris Pringle with the aim of adapting already existing numerical tools from the Newtonian problem, and developing entirely new ones.

Experiments on shear thinning pipe flow have observed the development of asymmetry at moderate Reynolds numbers. Attempts to explain this and its role in transition have so far had limited success. This project will seek to apply fully nonlinear techniques to the problem including exact solution tracking and nonlinear optimisation methods similar to those used successfully for Newtonian flows.

The successful applicant should have: a PhD (or be about to submit one) in fluid dynamics, applied mathematics or a similar discipline; a strong background in mathematical and numerical modelling; and an ability to work both independently and collaboratively. Experience of the above nonlinear techniques is desirable. You should be able to communicate technical material to both academics and non-academics. You will be expected to integrate into the growing fluid dynamics group, within the Research Centre in Flow Measurement and Fluid Mechanics, participating in regular seminars and adding to the collegiate environment and you may be asked to help develop student research skills.

For an informal discussion on the position please contact Dr Chris Pringle directly, on chris.pringle@coventry.ac.uk.

 

23-10-2017: International Conference on Magneto-Science 2017

Posted by on 3 July 2017 Comments Off on 23-10-2017: International Conference on Magneto-Science 2017

October 23- 27, 2017: International Conference on Magneto-Science 2017

The international Conference on Magneto-Science 2017 (ICMS 2017) will be held on October 23- 27, 2017, Reims, France. First conference on Magneto-Science was held in 2005 (Yokohama).

The success at Yokohama was followed by conferences at Hiroshima in 2007, Nijimegen in 2009, Shanghai and Xi’an in 2011, Bordeaux in 2013 and Matsumoto in 2015

ICMS 2017 will cover magnetic field effects on materials and processes in physics, chemistry, and biology, especially from the view point of “Colloids and Interface Science”. Topics and keywords are as follows.

Papers on the following topics are welcome:

  • Magnetic processing of materials ;
  • Magnetic control of structures, properties, and functions ;
  • Chemical reactions and processes under magnetic fields ;
  • Analytical aspect of magnetic fields ;
  • Magnetic separation science and technology ;
  • Interactions between water systems and magnetic fields ;
  • Colloids and interface science under magnetic fields ;
  • Magnetic levitation and microgravity ;
  • Generation and application of various magnetic fields ;
  • Others relating to magnetics and magnetic fields.

The registration fee (early registration – Full participants : 600 EUR – Students : 400 EUR) includes all conference sessions, congress materials, and include welcome cocktail, banquet and excursion to Epernay and cellars.

Important date : submission of abstracts – July 8, 2017

Supporting organization:

Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne

International Organizing Committee of ICMS 

International scientific committee:

  • Eric Beaugnon (Grenoble, France), Chairperson
  • Noriyuki Hirota (Tsukuba, Japan), Vice Chairperson
  • Andreas Bund (Dresden, Germany)
  • Peter C. M. Christianen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Richard J. A. Hill (Nottingham, UK)
  • Peter J. Hore (Oxford, UK)
  • Tsunehisa Kimura (Kyoto, Japan)
  • Sumio Ozeki (Matsumoto, Japan)
  • Zhongming Ren (Shanghai, China)
  • Justin Schwartz (Tallahassee, USA)
  • Peng Shang (Xian, China)
  • Dmitri V. Stass (Novosibirsk, Russia)
  • James M. Valles, Jr. (Providence, USA)

International advisory board of ICMS:

  • Michael D. Coey (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Jan Kees Maan (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Yoshifumi Tanimoto (Osaka, Japan)
  • James Torbet (Grenoble, France)
  • Robert F. Tournier (Grenoble, France)
  • Hitoshi Wada (Kashiwa, Japan)
  • Masuhiro Yamaguchi (Yokohama, Japan)

Local organizing committe :

  • Jean-Paul Chopart (Reims, France), Organizer
  • Anne-Lise Daltin (Reims, France), Vice-organizer
  • Noriyuki Hirota (Tsukuba, Japan)
  • Iwao Mogi (Sendai, Japan)
  • Martine Noël (Reims, France)
  • Jean-Marc Patat (Reims, France)
  • Ophélie Riou (Reims, France)
  • Mathilde Stübner (Reims, France)

 

Further information on the following website : – www.univ-reims.fr/minisite_140/home/icms2017-in-reims,20366,35041.html

Registration : – www.univ-reims.fr/minisite_140/register/register,21053,35075.html

Any question mail to icms2017@univ-reims.fr

 

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Thanks,

Best regards,

Anne-Lise DALTIN

Issue #1, 2017

Posted by on 31 January 2017 Comments Off on Issue #1, 2017

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  1. INTERNATIONAL LIMTECH YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD 2017
  2. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: 8th INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM “MODELLING FOR MATERIALS PROCESSING”
  3. SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCES ON MHD AND RELATED TOPICS
  4. NEXT HYDROMAG NEWSLETTER

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  1. INTERNATIONAL LIMTECH YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD 2017
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    (from Gerd Mutschke, HZDR, Germany)

    The LIMTECH Alliance, a German research initiative devoted to the research on liquid metal technologies (https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=2920) that is funded by the Helmholtz association of German research centres, for the second time announces the international LIMTECH Young Scientist Award to support the research in the field of liquid metal technologies and to intensify
    international cooperation. Detailed subjects are, for instance, generic flow phenomena and flow control, magnetohydrodynamic flows, measurement techniques, applications in metal casting, crystal growth or energy conversion and storage, related model experiments and numerical simulations, etc.

    The award is granted annually and recognizes outstanding scientific contributions made by young scientists. Candidates must be less than 40 years old.

    Eligible for application are PhDs or post-docs (typically 3-4 years after completion of the thesis). Applicants must not be members of the LIMTECH alliance, and their work must not have been funded by the LIMTECH alliance.

    The award consists of a certificate and is endowed with a lump sum of 2000 €.

    Next award: 2017

    Nominations: from January 15 to March 15, 2017

    Chair of the Award Committee: Dr. Gunter Gerbeth, HZDR, on behalf of the Steering Committee of the LIMTECH alliance.

    The winner of the 2017 award will be announced at the Final Symposium of the LIMTECH alliance taking place in Dresden on Sept. 19-20, 2017, at which the winner is invited to give a lecture. LIMTECH will pay for his/her travel costs.

    Submission of award nomination: Nominations can be made by individuals, mentors of individuals or institutions. Candidates may nominate themselves. The application should contain:

    • a short application letter motivating the scientific contribution made,
    • a curriculum vitae,
    • a publication record,
    • contact information of mentors supporting the application

    All application documents must be submitted in pdf format via email to: limtech-allianz(at)hzdr.de.
    The deadline for submission is March 15, 2017.

    PDF-version of this announcement

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  1. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: 8th INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM “MODELLING FOR MATERIALS PROCESSING”
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    (from Andris Jakovičs, LU, Latvia)

    This scientific colloquium will take place at University of Latvia in Riga (Latvia) on 21-22 September, 2017. Colloquiums in field of modelling have long tradition since 1999 and was organised periodically in Riga and Hanover (Germany). The aim of this series of colloquiums is to encourage collaboration by scientists working in field of modelling applications for increasing of products quality and energy efficiency in different technological processes.

    Papers on the numerical and physical modelling in the following branches are welcome:

    • Processing of high quality metal alloys and non-metallic materials (oxides, glasses, powders, composites)
    • Crystal growth of semi-conductive materials
    • Production processes for new and innovative products
    • EM stirring, casting, shaping, forming and levitation
    • Combustion, evaporation and condensations processes
    • Energy efficiency and sustainability of technological equipment
    • Space technologies and applications

    The participation fee (early registration – 420 EUR, normal rate – 490 EUR, incl. 21% VAT) covers all information material of the colloquium,
    the proceedings and flash, dinner as well as coffee and refreshments during breaks.

    Important date: submission of abstracts – March 31, 2017

    International scientific committee:

        E. Baake     Leibniz University Hanover, Germany
        V. Bojarevics     University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
        F. Dughiero     University of Padua, Italy
        P. Dold     Frauenhofer CSP, Germany
        V. Fireteanu     Politechnica University of Bucharest, Romania
        A. Jakovics     University of Latvia, Latvia
        B. Nacke     Leibniz University Hanover, Germany
        A. Thess     German Aerospace Centter (DLR), Germany
        V. Timofejev     Siberian Federal University, Russian Federation
        J. Virbulis     University of Latvia, Latvia

    Local Organising committee:

      • Dr. A. Jakovics (Andris.Jakovics@lu.lv)
      • Dr. J. Virbulis (Janis.Virbulis@lu.lv)
      • Dr. M. Ščepanskis (Mihails.Scepanskis@lu.lv)

    Further information on the following website: http://www.modlab.lv/mmp2017

    Online registration on the following website: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmp2017

    Attachment: Announcement and Call for Papers MMP17

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  1. SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCES ON MHD AND
    RELATED TOPICS

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  1. NEXT HYDROMAG NEWSLETTER

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    will be issued in the end of April, 2017. Please send information you wish to be included into this issue to

     a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk

    not later than 20 of April, 2017.

    If you have an urgent announcement, we can publish at http://hydromag.eu

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Alex Pedcenko

Coventry University
School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, EEC
a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk

tel.+44(0)2477658974

Issue #2, 2016

Posted by on 27 July 2016 Comments Off on Issue #2, 2016

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  1. NEW HYDROMAG COMMITTEE
  2. HYDROMAG PRIZE
  3. MHD TEAMS
  4. PHD COMPLETIONS
  5. HYDROMAG NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBER’s CONTRIBUTIONS
  6. SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCES ON MHD AND RELATED TOPICS
  7. NEXT HYDROMAG NEWSLETTER

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  1. NEW HYDROMAG COMMITTEE
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    (from Alban Potherat, UK )

    During the meeting of HYDROMAG Committee members held at PAMIR 2016 conference in Cagliari (20-24 June, 2016, Italy) new HYDROMAG Committee members were elected. The present Committee comprises

    • Thomas Boeck (TU-Ilmenau, Germany, thomas.boeck(at)tu-ilmenau.de)
    • Laurent Davoust (Grenoble-INP, France, Laurent.Davoust(at)grenoble-inp.fr)
    • Gunter Gerbeth (HZDR, Germany, g.gerbeth(at)hzdr.de)
    • Alban Potherat (Coventry, UK, alban.potherat(at)coventry.ac.uk)
    • Engang Wang (NEU/Shenyang, China, egwang(at)mail.neu.edu.cn)
    • Oleg Zikanov (U. Michigan/Dearborn, USA, zikanov(at)umich.edu )

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  1. HYDROMAG PRIZE
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    (from Alban Potherat, Coventry, UK )

    The HYDROMAG association for Hydromagnetic phenomena and its applications (http://www.hydromag.eu) is pleased to announce the first Hydromag Best Poster Prize.

    The prize consists of a personal gratification of 500€, awarded for the best poster presented at the PAMIR conference (Cagliari, 20-24 June 2016). The competition was open to all researchers under 35 years of age, who are first author of a poster accepted for display during the conference. The winner was decided based on the originality, significance and rigour of the work presented. The decision was made by the members of the HYDROMAG committee present at the PAMIR conference.

    This edition of the prize was generously funded by Coventry University (UK) and was awarded to Ms Franziska Karnbach (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany) for her poster “Influence of Magnetic Fields on the Behavior of Single Hydrogen Bubbles Generated via Water Electrolysis“.

    We would like to make Hydromag Prize a tradition, presented at a key MHD-related conferences in the future.

    Congratulations Franziska!
    The HYDROMAG Committee

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  1. MHD TEAMS
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    (from Alex Pedcenko, Coventry, UK)

    Within a scope of further development of the HYDROMAG website and promoting a visibility of
    magnetohydrodynamics and its applications we would like to introduce a new section to our website dedicated to the research teams across the globe, which deal with MHD-related subjects.

    We would like to invite the subscribers of Hydromag Newsletter to send us (a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk, subj: MHD-Teams) brief profiles of their teams.
    Published profiles will be grouped by the following hierarchy: Country/Institution/Department/Group. Please include the following
    information (not more than 1 page, TXT,DOC,RTF,HTML,e-mail [not PDF] format):

    • Country/Institution/Department/Group (where applicable)
    • contact information you would like to be publicly visible,
    • main group members/staff,
    • main activities,
    • recent PhD completions (optional, can be linked to another section on our website, see the advert below).
    • your web address for more information.

    If you already have up-to-date website with such a brief profile you want to be “mirrored” in this section of Hydromag webpage, just send us a link.

    Thank you in advance,
    Alex

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  1. PHD COMPLETIONS
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    (from Alex Pedcenko, Coventry, UK)

    Within a scope of further development of the HYDROMAG website and promoting a visibility of
    magnetohydrodynamics and its applications we would like to introduce another new section to our website dedicated to the recent PhD completions in MHD-related topics.

    If you or your group member/student had recently completed PhD in MHD-related area, we would like to hear about this and publish a short post in this section of our website.
    Please send us (a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk, subj: PHD-Completions) a short notice with that person’s full name, Institution/Department/Group, title of the thesis, and a short abstract (1-2 paragraphs).
    Please make sure you have a permission if you are posting on someone else’s behalf.

    Thank you in advance,
    Alex

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  1. HYDROMAG NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBER’s CONTRIBUTIONS
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    (from Alex Pedcenko, Coventry, UK)

    As usual, we are welcoming contributions from all Hydromag Newsletter subscribers: please send us your news you think will be interesting to MHD community, any meetings/conferences/workshops,
    new job/PhD-positions openings or links to your new publications in MHD field (we are also planning to build the database of links to the recent MHD-related publications).

    Thank you in advance,
    Alex

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  1. SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCES ON MHD AND RELATED TOPICS

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  1. NEXT HYDROMAG NEWSLETTER

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    will be issued in the middle of October, 2016. Please send
    information you wish to be included into this issue to

     a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk

    not later than 15 of October, 2016.

    If you have an urgent announcement, we can publish at http://hydromag.eu between the
    issues.

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Alex Pedcenko
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0)24-77658974
e-mail: a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk

Special Issue #3, 2015

Posted by on 10 September 2015 Comments Off on Special Issue #3, 2015

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16th MHD-Days

TU Ilmenau, December 7-9, 2015

September 2015 update of announcement:

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Abstract submission and registration for the conference have started. Please register through the conference web pages 

http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/mhddays2015

The registration deadline is November 20. The conference fee is 85 Euros including conference dinner.

Confirmed speakers at the event are

  • Jonathan Aurnou, UCLA, USA
  • Peter Davidson, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Peter Frick, Perm State University, Russia
  • Gunter Gerbeth, Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
  • Koulis Pericleous, University of Greenwich, UK

We hope that the community will be interested in the conference, and we look forward to welcoming many participants.

Dr. Thomas Boeck

Dr. Dmitry Krasnov

Prof. Christian Karcher

Prof. Jörg Schumacher

(Organizing committee)

 

Schedule of Conferences on MHD and Related Topics

Next Hydromag Newsletter

will be issued in the middle of October, 2014. Please send information you wish to be included into this issue to

a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk

not later than 12 of October, 2015.

If you have an urgent announcement, we can publish at http://hydromag.eu between the issues.

 

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Alex Pedcenko

Coventry University

Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44-24-6577-8974

e-mail: a.pedcenko(at)coventry.ac.uk