Preliminary Program subject to change
07A04 Dynamics of Complex Fluid Systems
OverviewDescription to follow.
Primary SponsorEnergy Transport Research (07a)

Chair

Sanjoy Banerjee
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone Number: (805) 893-3456
Email: banerjee@engineering.ucsb.edu

CoChair

Valeriy Ginzburg
Ph. D.
Physical Sciences Group
The Dow Chemical Company
Bldg. 1702
Midland, MI 48674
Phone Number: (989) 636-9565
Fax Number: (989) 636-2224
Email: vvginzburg@dow.com
Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Self-Assembly and Emerging Optical and Biological Applications
Oleg D. Lavrentovich1, Sergii Shiyanovskii1, Hui Liu1, Ye Yin1, Yurii Nastishin1, Ivan Smalyukh1, Vassili Nazarenko2, Mikhail A. Anisimov3, Andrei F. Kostko4, Tod Schneider1 and Cristopher Woolverton5, (1)Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, (2)Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine, (3)University of Maryland, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, (4)University of Maryland, IPST, Beltsville, MD 20705, (5)Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
Harnessing Light to Create Defect-Free, Hierarchically Structured Polymeric Materials
Anna C. Balazs1, Olga Kuksenok2 and Rui Travasso2, (1)Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, 1248 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, (2)University of Pittsburgh, 1248 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Predicting Fluid Flow and Pressure Drop in Randomly Packed Beds of Cylindrical Particles by Coupling DEM and CFD
Hua Bai1, Joerg Theuerkauf1 and Paul Witt2, (1)The Dow Chemical Company, 2301 Brazosport Blvd. B1225, Freeport, TX 77541, (2)The Dow Chemical Company, 1776 Building, Midland, MI 48674
Rheological Characteristics of Anti-Icing Fluids
Dale C. Schmidt, Melissa Mielcarek, David C. Busby and Gene D. Rose, Research and Engineering Sciences, The Dow Chemical Company, 1712 Building, Midland, MI 48674
Surfactant Effects on Highly Nonequilibrium Surfaces: Surfactants and Drop Detachment
Fang Jin, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, Nivedita Gupta, University of New Hampshire, Department of Chemical Engineering, Durham, NH 03824 and Kathleen J. Stebe, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 3400 N. Charles Street, 221 Maryland Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218
Structure Development in Phase-Separating Complex Fluid Systems
David M. Hall, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Turab Lookman, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 and Sanjoy Banerjee, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chemical Engineering, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Theoretical and Experimental Studies of New Polymer-Metal High-Dielectric Constant Nanocomposites
Valeriy Ginzburg, Physical Sciences Group, The Dow Chemical Company, Bldg. 1702, Midland, MI 48674, Michael J. Elwell, Thermosets R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Rheinmuenster, 77836, Germany, Kyle Myers, Materials Sciences, The Dow Chemical Company, Bldg. 1702, Midland, MI 48674, Robert Cieslinski, Analytical Sciences, The Dow Chemical Company, Bldg. 1897, Midland, MI 48674 and Mark T. Bernius, Ventures R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Bldg. 1702, Midland, MI 48674
Drying, Film Formation and Particle Coalescence in Polymer Films and Coatings: a Theoretical and Experimental Study
Madan Somasi1, Valeriy Ginzburg1, Gary Strandburg1, Mark VanSumeren1 and Melissa Mielcarek2, (1)The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI 48674, (2)Research and Engineering Sciences, The Dow Chemical Company, 1712 Building, Midland, MI 48674
On Fluctuations in Polymer Solutions: Field Theoretic Simulations
Kirill Katsov, Materials Research Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 and Glenn Fredrickson, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5121
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Inter- Circulating Fluidized Bed
Leo Qiang Wang, College of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300222, China and Peisheng MA, College of Chenmical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300074, China

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