Day 3: Tuesday morning, September 5, 2006

Session 4 Complex fluid deformation and rheology: Theories and thermodynamic relationships
Chair: M. Grmela

08:00  Dynamic van der Waals theory _»
A. Onuki
Physics Department, Kyoto University, Japan

08:50  Thermodynamic relationships for shearing viscoelastic fluids _»
P.J. Daivis
Applied Physics, School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

09:15  Relationship between heterogeneous dynamics and internal stress _»
M.T. Downton, M.P. Kennett
Simon Fraser University, USA

09:40  Dynamics of an interface or membrane between two fluids_»
B.U. Felderhof
RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

10:05  Coffee break

10:20  Polymer rheology and nonlinear transient elasticity _»
O. Müller¹, M. Liu¹, H. Pleiner², H.R. Brand^3
1 Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Germany
² Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
³ Theoretical Physics III, University of Bayreuth, Germany

10:45  Plastic flow of solids _»
A. Minami, A. Onuki
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

11:10  Thermodynamics of Non-Isothermal Polymer Flows: Experiment, Theory and Simulation _»
T.C. Ionescu¹, B.J. Edwards¹, D.J. Keffer¹, V.G. Mavrantzas^2
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
² Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras GR 26504, Greece

11:35  Discussion
M. Grmela

12:05  Lunch

   Day 3: Tuesday afternoon, September 5, 2006

14:00  A general methodology to predict the linear rheology of branched polymers _»
E. van Ruymbeke¹, R. Keunings², C. Bailly², D. Vlassopoulos^1,3
1 IESL - FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
² UCL, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
³ University of Crete, Department of Materials Science and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

14:25  2-Fluid Viscoelasticity _»
H. Pleiner¹, J.L. Harden^2
1 Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55021 Mainz, Germany
² Dept. Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada

14:50  Selected nonlinear physical properties of liquid crystalline elastomers _»
A.M. Menzel, H.R. Brand
Theoretical Physics III, University of Bayreuth, Germany

15:15  Suspensions of rodlike molecules: phase transition and equlilibration time scale for a shear flow _»
F. Otto, C. Löschke, J. Wachsmuth
University of Bonn, Germany

15:40  Coffee break

15:45  Poster Session »

16:35  Free time

17:00  Excursion