Considering the vast importance of multiphase flows in energy systems, biomedicine, defense systems, manufacturing, and the environment, and the growing importance of CFD in multiphase flows, the executive co-organizers are hosting a dedicated conference on the topic of numerical methods in multiphase flows, to bring together the international community in a focused technical exchange environment. The executive organizers of ICNMMF believe that the pace of the maturity of the technology of multiphase flow numerics could and should be enhanced. What is needed is focused emphasis on the topic in the context of books, conference sessions, and dedicated conferences on the topic that can bring together the international community in a very focused technical exchange environment. It is this latter need that has motivated ICNMMF.
The co-organizers of ICNMMF are a group well-known leaders in the field of multiphase flow modeling. In the context of the emphasis on ?new methods?, each of these individuals has contributed to the assembly of a proposed list of topics from which solicit conference contributions have been solicited. The list of topics for ICNMMF include: 1) Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation, 2) Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, 3) Eulerian Homogeneous and Two-fluid Models, 4) Direct Quadrature Methods, 5) Lagrangian Methods, 6) ALE Methods, 7) Interface Capturing Techniques, 8) Multiscale Methods, 9) Compressible Multiphase Flows, 10) High-Order Accuracy Flux Schemes, 11) General Advanced Algorithms, 12) Particle Methods, 13) Uncertainty Quantification, 14) Lattice Boltzmann and Molecular Dynamics Methods.
The broader impacts of ICNMMF are that: 1) all presentations that authors wish to include in a conference DVD will be distributed to participants electronically immediately after the conference, and to the general public through the conference website, which will remain ?live? until the next ICNMMF, 2) interactions between conference participants, with inputs from government sponsors, industrial practitioners and experimentalists, will focus research endeavors and research funding, and engender collaborations in new/modern sub-disciplines of multiphase flows analysis, 3) the executive organizers of ICNMMF intend this conference to be the first in a series (every two years we believe), and therefore this first meeting will set the stage for a much longer/broader benefit to the multiphase flow community specifically, and more generally, the energy, biomedical, defense, and environmental sciences that have come to depend on this science.
Considering the vast importance of multiphase flows in energy systems, biomedicine, defense systems, manufacturing, and the environment, and the growing importance of CFD in multiphase flows, the PIs are hosting a dedicated conference on the topic of numerical methods in multiphase flows, to bring together the international community in a focused technical exchange environment. The executive organizers of The International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows (ICNMMF) believe that the pace of the maturity of the technology of multiphase flow numerics could and should be enhanced. Despite superb advances in some limited areas, there seems to be a comparative stagnation of research in the area, with many researchers continuing to focus on legacy numerical approaches, including ongoing enhancements to inherently limited methods. What is needed is focused emphasis on the topic in the context of books, conference sessions, and dedicated conferences on the topic that can bring together the international community in a focused technical exchange environment. It is this latter need that has motivated ICNMMF and this request for support. This NSF sponsorship effort, by the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (ARL Penn State) provided financial support for the International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flow (ICNMMF), held at The Pennsylvania State University, June 12-14, 2012. Dr. Robert Kunz was Principal Investigator (PI) for this support, and was responsible for the application of the funds towards the conference. Dr. Kunz and Dr. Andrea Prosperetti, of the Johns Hopkins University, were the General Chairmen of the Conference. ICNMMF brought together the international community of multiphase flow CFD, in a focused technical exchange environment, to engender discussions, critiques, and collaboration on new research ideas, methods, and directions in multiphase numerics. The conference was focused on advanced methods, rather than applications, since this is where we see the highest long term benefit for technology advancement. A second purpose of the conference was to hear from invited government research sponsors and active industrial practitioners in order to help focus the community on the needs of these communities. A third purpose of the conference was to hear from invited multiphase flow experimental researchers in order to bring the modelers and experimentalists together in the context of method validation. The co-chairmen, Kunz and Prosperettiassembled, as co-organizers of ICNMMF, a group world leaders in the field of multiphase flow modeling. In the context of the emphasis on "new methods", each of these individuals has contributed to the assembly of a proposed list of topics from which to solicit conference contributions. The proposed list of topics for ICNMMF are: 1) Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation, 2) Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, 3) Eulerian Homogeneous and Two-fluid Models, 4) Direct Quadrature Methods, 5) Lagrangian Methods, 6) ALE Methods, 7) Interface Capturing Techniques, 8) Multiscale Methods, 9) Compressible Multiphase Flows, 10) High-Order Accuracy Flux Schemes, 11) General Advanced Algorithms, 12) Particle Methods, 13) Uncertainty Quantification, 14) Lattice Boltzmann and Molecular Dynamics Methods. The broader impacts of ICNMMF were that: 1) all presentations were included in a conference web-based proceedings - i.e., to the general public through the conference website, which will remain "live" until the next ICNMMF, 2) interactions between conference participants, with inputs from government sponsors, industrial practitioners and experimentalists, focused on research endeavors and research funding, and engendered collaborations in new/modern sub-disciplines of multiphase flows analysis, 3) the executive organizers of ICNMMF successfully established that the conference is the first in a series - ICNMMF-2 will be held at Darmstadt University in 2013. This first meeting set the stage for a much longer/broader benefit to the multiphase flow community specifically, and more generally, the energy, biomedical, defense, and environmental sciences that have come to depend on this science.The intellectual merit of the conference was that by bringing together world leaders in the important scientific discipline of multiphase flow numerical methods, emphasis on new research ideas, methods, and directions will engender growth and collaboration in these areas.
