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

08:50  Thermodynamic relationships for shearing viscoelastic fluids _»
P.J. Daivis

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

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

10:05  Coffee break

10:20  Polymer rheology and nonlinear transient elasticity _»
O. Müller, M. Liu, H. Pleiner, H.R. Brand

10:45  Plastic flow of solids _»
A. Minami, A. Onuki

11:10  Thermodynamics of Non-Isothermal Polymer Flows: Experiment, Theory and Simulation _»
T.C. Ionescu, B.J. Edwards, D.J. Keffer, V.G. Mavrantzas

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 Ruymbeke, R. Keunings, C. Bailly, D. Vlassopoulos^1,3

14:25  2-Fluid Viscoelasticity _»
H. Pleiner, J.L. Harden

14:50  Selected nonlinear physical properties of liquid crystalline elastomers _»
A.M. Menzel, H.R. Brand

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

15:40  Coffee break

15:45  Poster Session »

16:35  Free time

17:00  Excursion