ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group 37:
Bio-fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

Welcome:

This is the home page for the ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group for Bio-fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. If you want to be actively involved in this group or be informed of upcoming activities please contact me, Arjan Frijns (details below). There is a mailing list for the group: http://pegasus.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/ercoftac-bio

Research Topics:

Bio-Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer is a field that covers highly diverse subjects. Among the topics that are currently being researched by people who have previously expressed an interest in participating in this Special Interest Group are:

NEW: Read the contributions in the Ercoftac Bulletin issue that featured Bio-fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer here.

Upcoming events

International Summer School on Turbulence, Plankton, and Marine Snow

Moli de Mar, Po Ermita de St. Cristofor (Far), Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain.

1-5 September 2008

In the framework of ERCOFTAC SIG 37, (Bio-fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer) a one-week summer school is planned in the field of (geophysical) turbulence and its role on the swimming behaviour and contact rates of plankton, patchiness of plankton, bloom formation, marine snow formation. Attention will also be paid to the theory and modeling of geophysical turbulence, laboratory experiments and in situ observation on plankton in turbulence, and the role of satellite observations. The aim of the meeting is to provide an intense course on current advances in the field with five invited didactical lectures by top specialists in the subject. The main emphasis will be put on the fluid-mechanical aspects of ocean flows, dispersion of species in small-scale turbulence and the available numerical and experimental techniques to analyze those. Additionally, it is aimed to promote the interactions between marine biology and fluid mechanics by bringing together senior and junior scientists from both disciplines, and to stimulate discussions and interaction between colleagues from the two disciplines. Besides the keynote lectures there will be room for several lectures by senior researchers on specialized topics.

The following keynote lectures will be given (with the proposed the lecturer between brackets)
  • turbulence in the ocean: an introduction to its physics (Steve Thorpe, Bangor, UK)
  • experiments and observation of plankton in turbulence (Francesc Peters, Barcelona, Spain)
  • planktonic population dynamics in turbulent boundary layers (David Lewis, Liverpool, UK)
  • mesoscale turbulence and plankton patchiness (Marina Levy, Paris, France)
  • small-scale hydrodynamics and plankton (Andy Visser, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • the formation and fate of marine snow: the role of hydrodynamics (Thomas Kioerboe, Copenhagen, Denmark)


    • Besides short lectures on special topics will be given, covering:
  • turbulent exchange in the benthic boundary layer (Luca van Duren, Delft, The Netherlands)
  • planktonic contact and capture rates in turbulent environments (Hans Pecseli, Oslo, Norway)
  • using CFD to investigate the copepod hydrodynamics (Houshuo Jiang, Woods Hole, USA)
  • animal and robot strategies for tracking odors underwater (Frank Grasso, New York, USA)
  • physical gradients and biological responses across the edge of the continental shelf (Jonathan Sharples, Liverpool, UK)


    • Finally, also the junior participants will be invited to present their work in separate workshop-sessions.

    Participants will obtain printed material including full text of the invited lectures and abstracts of the special topic talks.

    The Summer School will be organized by
  • Herman Clercx, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (chairman)
  • Tim Pedley, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Jaume Piera, Marine Technology Unit, CMIMA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
  • Francois Schmitt, Director of Coastal and Littoral Ecosystems Wimereux Laboratory, Wimereux Marine Station, University of Lille 1, France
  • Anton van Steenhoven, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands


    • More information can be obtained here (pdf-document) and from:
    Herman Clercx
    Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, CC2.15
    Eindhoven University of Technology
    PO Box 513
    NL-5600MB Eindhoven
    The Netherlands
    Tel +.31.40.247.2680
    Fax +.31.40.246.4151
    E-mail h.j.h.clercx@tue.nl

    Call for proposals for a workshop

    The coordinators of the SIG invite the members to submit proposals for meetings. We would welcome proposals for short workshops with relatively short  lead times. A proposal might be submitted using this form. 

    Past events 

    Blood Flow - Modelling and Diagnostics (BF2005) June 20 - June 23, Warsaw Poland

    Advanced Course and Workshop, organized by the Centre of Excellence ABIOMED Applied Biomedical Modelling and Diagnostics & ERCOFTAC SIG-37 Bio-Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. Organizers: Tomasz Kowalewski, Anton van Steenhoven, and Andrzej Nowicki.  

    The course covered all aspects of fluid mechanics of blood circulation. Invited lectures:

    Table of contents for the lecture notes here. More information here: http://fluid.ippt.gov.pl/bf2005/

    International Workshop on μPIV and Applications in Microsystems

    The workshop held 7-8 April in Delft, the Netherlands, presented state of the art micro Particle Image Velocimetry (μPIV), LIF, flow visualization, and related techniques at micron scale. The workshop was joint organized in the framework of the EU Thematic Network PIVNET II and ERCOFTAC SIG 32, 37 and 38.

    Workshop in Toulouse August 2003

    The first meeting of the Ercoftac Special Interest Group 37 was held Thursday 28 August in Toulouse, on the last day of the EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Conference. A report on the meeting can be found here.

    Meetings Warsaw and Aachen in 2004

    Both at the ICTAM 2004 meeting in Warsaw and at the Euromech Colloquium 456 in Aachen there have been short informal meetings of this Special Interest Group. For people new to the SIG Anton van Steenhoven has given a short introduction about the goals, the organization and available means of the SIG. In the meetings the possible role of the SIG in strengthening this research area was discussed. Furthermore, suggestions more or less concrete for future workshops were discussed. When and if the proposals lead to workshops they will be announced here as well as via the mailing list (to subscribe, visit http://pegasus.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/ercoftac-bio). 

    People:

    Organising committee

    Apart from the coordinators, the organising committee consists of the following scientists: 

    Coordinators

    Contact person

    Arjan Frijns
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Eindhoven University of Technology
    Building W-Hoog 2.124
    P.O.Box 513
    5600 MB Eindhoven 
    The Netherlands
    Tel. ++31 (0)40 247 4825
    Fax ++31 (0)40 243 3445
    E-mail:  A.J.H.Frijns@tue.nl

    Last revised: 07-November-2006