1. Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences

2. Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Staff Full professors 32 Associate professors 23 Senior researchers 101 (with the Ph.D. degree) Assistents 11 Ph. D. Students 82 Total staff320

3. Head Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Kowalewski The Department has 2 Sections:  Mathematical Methods of Fluid Mechanics  Viscous and Thermal Flows Staff: 23 persons professors: 1 associate professors: 6 senior researchers: 11 graduates and PhD students: 5 DEPARTMENT MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF FLUIDS http://fluid.ippt.gov.pl

4.  Nanofibres by electrospinning  Numerical fluid dynamics, chaotic phenomena.  Simulation of atmospheric flow  Turbulent mixing in gas combustor model  Hydrodynamic interactions of particles immersed in fluid.  Natural convection with phase transition, solidification, crystals growth.  Vapor bubble growth, droplet oscillations, instability of the liquid jets.  Image processing, Particle Image Velocimetry & Thermometry.  High speed video imaging, non-intrusive measurements of the surface tension.  Experimental and theoretical studies of laser sustained plasma  Theory of dispersed media (suspensions, effective transport coefficients).  Dynamics of peptide and DNA chains.  Asymptotic methods in partial differential equations.  Kinetic theory of gases and some problems of dynamical systems.  Mathematical description of superfluidity. Projects DEPARTMENT MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

5. International Projects FLOXCOM – Low NOx Flameless Gas-Turbine Combustor PIVNET2 – Particle Image Velocimetry for Industry CONEX – Nanoparticles for New Materials Several bilateral projects with France (CNRS), Israel (Technion), Australia (UNSW), UK( UCL), Spain (UA), USA (ASU, Yale) DEPARTMENT MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

6. Austrian Ministry of Science and Education International Project Production and stability of emulsions containing nanoparticles and their use for new materials COOPERATION AND NETWORKING FOR SCIENCE Graz University of Technology, Austria University of Sophia, Bulgaria IPPT PAN, Poland

7. MEETING AGENDA 9:00 – 10:00S. Tcholakova, N. Vankova, N. D. Denkov, I. B. Ivanov, V. Valchev (Uni Sofia) Drop breakup in turbulent flow: experiments and data interpretation 10:00 – 10:30Agnieszka Slowicka, Zbigniew Walenta (IPPT PAN) Conditions for creating thin liquid layers at the contact surface of two other liquids 10:30 – 11:00Slawomir Blonski, Tomasz Kowalewski (IPPT PAN) Experimental investigations and numerical modelling of the flow through the emulsifier 11:00 – 11:15Coffee break 11:15 – 12:00H. Steiner, R. Teppner, G. Brenn (TU Graz) Numerical simulation of the flow through a narrow-gap emulsifier and prediction of drop sizes in the resultant emulsions 12:00 – 12:45G. Brenn, H. Steiner (TU Graz) Stability of liquid jets immersed in another liquid 13:00 – 14:30Lunch (Nowy Swiat Cafe & Restaurant)

8. MEETING AGENDA 14:45 – 15:15Maria Ekiel-Jezewska (IPPT PAN) Hydrodynamic interactions between particles on a flat free-surface. 15:15 – 16:00K. D. Danov, P. A. Kralchevsky, B. N. Naydenov, G. Brenn (Uni Sofia & TU Graz) Interactions between Particles with an Undulated Contact Line at a Fluid Interface: Capillary Multipoles of Arbitrary Order 16:00 – 16:15Coffee break 16:15 – 16:45P. A. Kralchevsky, K. D. Danov, V.L. Kolev, T. D. Gurkov, M. I. Temelska, G. Brenn (Uni Sofia & TU Graz) Detachment of Oil Drops from Solid Surfaces in Surfactant Solutions: Molecular Mechanisms at a Moving Contact Line 16:45 – 17:45General discussion concerning CONEX second year planning