The conference is organised with a list of tentative topics given below, but not limited to them.
Oral presentations will be given 20 minutes + 5mn questions.
(proposal of new topics is welcomed)
Electro-Hydrodynamics
Electrohydrodynamic instabilities, Charge injection driven flow, Electro and Electro-thermo convection, electro-hydrodynamic pumps.
Electrostatically driven or controlled fluid flow:
Corona generated secondary electrohydrodynamic flow. Boundary layer control. Electro-rheology. Electrospinning and electrospraying. DC and AC Electroosmosis. Electrowetting. Applications including thermal management and flow control.
Electrostatic manipulation of particles, droplets, and biological cells: Electrostatic forces on particles, including electrophoresis, dielectrophoresis and electrorotation. Applications, including electrostatic precipitators, separators, coating processes, and electrophotography. Electrostatic issues in fluidized beds and other solids handling processes. Biological/medical applications including control of biological cells and pharmaceutical powders. Microfluidics and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). Coupled problems (thermal, flow, stress) with essential contribution of electrostatic phenomena.
Electrostatic charge separation processes: Fundamental science behind how materials (solid or liquid) accumulate electrostatic charge, by triboelectric, induction, conduction, corona and electrical double layer charging, or other mechanisms. Electrostatic charge dissipation and neutralization. Space charge in solid dielectrics. Electrets. Methods to control charging. Static measurement techniques (charge, surface potential, electric field).
Numerical methods: Numerical methods for electrodynamics, Electric field computation, Computational Electro-Hydro-Dynamics (CEHD), Numerical simulation of Coulomb driven flow, coupled problems.