Numerical methods for multi-material fluid flows


Conference/workshop to be held at
Czech Technical University in Prague on September 10 - 14, 2007 (Monday - Friday)

Presentations: programme with presentations NEW ITEM

Photos: conference photo (click the photo for the fullsize file), album of other photos NEW ITEM

Aims: The conference follows on from the successful meetings held in Paris in 2002 and in Oxford in 2005. It aims to bring together researchers from universities and research labs to discuss the state of the art for multi-material hydrodynamics simulations. It will focus on relevant numerical methods, analysis of these methods and modeling of complex multi-material flows which is essential for research dealing with new sources of energy as inertial confinement fusion.

Topics to be covered include mathematical and physical aspects of

  • Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) methods
  • Eulerian Methods
  • Mesh Free Methods
  • Material interface modelling
  • Multiphase flow
  • Radiation Hydrodynamics

Important dates:
April 10, 2007 - deadline for abstracts (extended by a month from original deadline March 10, 2007)
May 10, 2007 - decision on acceptance
July 9, 2007 - deadline for early registration

Program: Conference program is available here.

Talks: All speakers will have 30 minutes for each talk including discussion and changing of speakers. Lecture hall will be equiped with dataprojector, PC with Linux, PC with Windows, overhead projector and laser pointer. Speakers can send their presentation in advance by e-mail. Speaker's responsibility remains to check during breaks that presentation displays correctly or her/his laptop works correctly with the dataprojector.

Preregistration: If you plan to attend, please preregister yourself (web forms are on aldebaran server) and you will get further announcements by e-mail. After successful preregistration you will get PIN in your browser window and in the confirmation e-mail. Please save the PIN, you will need it for abstract upload and final registration. If you lost your PIN e-mail us and we will send you your PIN back. The final registration will be opened in March 2007.

Final registration: The early registration fee is 7 500 CZK to be paid by the wire transfer to the university account till July 9, 2007. For early registration please wire the early registration fee first, as described in the payment description, then fill and submit the final registration form.

The full standard registration fee is 9 000 CZK. For standard registration please fill and submit the final registration form.

The registration fee covers conference expenses including welcome party on Monday night at restaurant Manes and conference garden raut on Thursday night at restaurant Petrinske terasy with outlook to Prague Castle and Old Town.

Accompanying persons: The registration fee for the accompanying persons will be 2000 CZK, to be paid at the registration, and will include welcome party and conference raut. Please make reservation for accompanying persons by e-mail soon, however no later than Sept 3, 2007, we need to know number of people for party and raut in advance.

Abstracts submission: For your abstract please use the templates in openoffice, rtf, word, tex or plain text, follow the instructions in the template and upload your abstract in one of these formats. You have to preregister to get your PIN before uploading your abstract.

Location: Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Trojanova 13, Prague 2

Local information on: General Information, Transportation in Prague, The Prague Airport Overview, From the Airport to Conference Hotels, From Hotels to Conference Venue is provided HERE including local maps in ready to print pdf documents.

Accomodation: The conference hotel Best Western City Hotel Moran ( Na Morani 15, Prague 2, 100 m from conference location) is already fully booked, however they will arrange reservation for you in the Best Western Premier Hotel Majestic Plaza, Stepanska street 33, about 10 min. walking from the conference site. For Hotel Majestic reservation please fill in the hotel reservation form, and fax it to the Hotel Moran no. +420-224 920 625. The prices are 99 Euro for a single room and 109 Euro for a double room (tax included), same as for Hotel Moran.

If you would like a cheaper accomodation, please fill in the accomodation request form, e-mail it to Welcome agency welcome@bed.cz and you will get an accommodation facilities offer with prices.

Program Committee:
Robert Anderson, (LLNL) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Andy Barlow, (AWE) Atomic Weapons Establishment, UK
Bruno Despres, (CEA) Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, France
Alice Koniges, (LLNL) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Pierre-Henri Maire, (CELIA) University Bordeaux, France
Bill Rider, (LANL) Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Allen Robinson, (SNL) Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Mikhail Shashkov (chair), (LANL) Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Local Organization:
Jan Koller, Richard Liska (chair), Jan Pichal, Milan Sinor, Pavel Vachal, (CTU) Czech Technical University in Prague

Previous conferences:
2002: Paris, http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~despres/hydro2.html
2005: Oxford, http://www.icfd.reading.ac.uk/Multimaterial-Workshop.htm