Monday, December 10

MS2
Modeling and Simulation of Viscoelastic Flows

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Kachina B

Many fluids of industrial importance, such as polymer melts and solutions, are viscoelastic and behave in a complicated fashion. The speakers in this minisymposium discuss the mathematical theory of viscoelastic liquids, constitutive models for them, and the physical consequences of the models. A wide range of analytical, asymptotic and numerical techniques are used to obtain solutions.

Organizer: Yuriko Renardy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

10:30-10:55 Numerical Simulations of Drop Deformation for Viscoelastic Liquid-Liquid Systems

Yuriko Renardy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

11:00-11:25 Mathematical Modeling and Computational Issues

Peter Wapperom, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

11:30-11:55 Modeling the Inhomogeneous Response in Steady and Transient Flows of Wormlike Micellar Solutions

Pamela Cook, University of Delaware; Lin Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Paula Vasquez, University of Delaware; Gareth McKinley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:00-12:25 Singularities and Transport in Viscoelastic Flows

Becca Thomases, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University