Public Physic Colloquium in the Winter Terms 2011/2012 in Münster
Place:     Germany, 48149 Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, IG I, HS 2
Time:     Thursday, 01.12.2011  16:00 h c.t.
Colloquium Coffee at 15:45 h  at the Lecture Hall

Particle-pattern formation in incompressible periodic flows

Prof. Dr. Hendrik C. Kuhlmann, Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Wärmeübertragung

Experiments have shown that small particles suspended into a confined liquid can exhibit a rapid and nearly complete de-mixing. Depending on the underlying incompressible flow the particles may arrange themselves into dynamic, one-dimensional, thread-like accumulation structures. By modeling and numerical simulation we show that the de-mixing is primarily caused by repeated particle-wall collisions of finite-size particles, while inertial effects are of lesser importance.

Einladender: Prof. Dr. S. Linz

Im Auftrag der Hochschullehrer des Fachbereichs Physik

Prof. Dr. Sergej Demokritov