Following previous editions, IMT provides a unique opportunity for sharing ideas about theoretical, experimental and numerical research on Diffusion and Thermal Diffusion. The IMT series of meetings, aimed at scientists and technologists, provides a forum for discussions, personal interactions and provides a mechanism for fostering new collaborations.
The sessions will be held at the Royal School of Mines Building of Imperial College London, located in South Kensington with excellent links to the metropolitan public transportation network and within walking distance of a number of London landmarks, such as the Royal Albert Hall, or Hyde Park and several world-class museums, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The conference will consist of both invited and contributed presentations.
Focus
The IMT13 is aimed at discussing the latest results on transport properties in multicomponent fluids: innovative theoretical approaches, new experimental results and techniques as well as state of the art numerical methods. The most fundamental aspect of the conference will be the discussion amongst scientists, the sharing of ideas and creating new and reinforced existing collaborations.
Main topics
- Theoretical, experimental and numerical methods to investigate thermodiffusion in binary, ternary and multicomponent mixtures
- Non equilibrium thermodynamics of fluids under thermal stress
- Non-equilibrium fluctuations in thermally inhomogeneous fluids
- Macromolecular solutions, airborne particles, colloidal suspensions, and biological fluids: the thermophoresis case
- Thermodiffusion in porous media and enhanced oil recovery
- Soret-driven hydrodynamic instabilities and convective patterns
- Thermodiffusion effects in crystal growth and polymer processing
- Thermodiffusion in microgravity
- Thermodiffusion in biological transport
- Applications of thermal diffusion
Committees
| International Advisory Committee | Local Organizing Committee |
|---|---|
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Fernando Bresme
Velisa Vesovic Oscar Fajardo Juan Olarte Plata Goran Svaland |
Invited speakers
- Dieter Braun, Ludwig-Maximillians University (Germany)
- Erika Eiser, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Gillaume Galliero, University of Pau (France)
- Bjorn Hafskjold, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
- Miguel Rubi, University of Barcelona (Spain)
- Yuka Tabe, Waseda University (Japan)
- Gerhard Wurm, Duisburg-Essen University (Germany)
Timetable
Download a copy of the full programme 2018 [pdf].
Special issue
Submissions are invited for a Special Issue of EPJE dedicated to thermal non-equilibrium phenomena in soft matter. The issue will include contributions presented at the XIIIth International Meeting on Thermodiffusion (IMT) that will take place from September 11th to September 14th, 2018 at Imperial College London. The IMT conference is a well-established forum for discussion of non-equilibrium transport phenomena, with the first meeting going back to 1994.
The scope of this issue will extend on fundamental studies and applications of soft material under thermal non-equilibrium conditions: theoretical and experimental advances to investigate thermodiffusion in soft matter, novel coupling effects induced by thermal fields, non-equilibrium fluctuations in thermally inhomogeneous fluids, thermodiffusion in porous media, thermal diffusion effects in colloidal suspensions, thermal non-equilibrium phenomena in biology, applications of thermodiffusion in sensing technologies and industrial processes.
The submission is open to everyone working in the field. The submission of contributions will open in mid September 2018. We invite interested authors to contact the guest editors before September 2018, providing a tentative title and a short abstract of their contribution. The full manuscripts should be submitted before the deadline directly to the EPJE Editorial Office at https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epje/.
Deadline for submission: January 18th 2019
Submissions should be clearly identified as intended for the Special Issue “Thermal non-equilibrium phenomena in soft matter”. Papers will be published continuously and will appear (as soon as accepted) on the journal website. The electronic version of the Special Issue will contain all accepted papers in the order of publication. All submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual high standards of the journal. More general information about EPJE including instructions for authors is available at http://epjd.epj.org/.
Guest Editors of the Special issue:
Fernando Bresme, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK, f.bresme@imperial.ac.uk
Velisa Vesovic, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK, v.vesovic@imperial.ac.uk
Fabrizio Croccolo, Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs, UMR-5150, E2S-Univ Pau & Pays Adour/CNRS/TOTAL, 1 Allée du Parc Montaury, 64000 Anglet, France, fabrizio.croccolo@univ-pau.fr
Henri Bataller, Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs, UMR-5150, E2S-Univ Pau & Pays Adour/CNRS/TOTAL, 1 Allée du Parc Montaury, 64000 Anglet, henri.bataller@univ-pau.fr
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