Shanks Workshop

Dynamics of Interfaces and Structures in Fluid Flows
Vanderbilt University
October 18-19, 2008

Organizers: Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Misha Perepelitsa, Gieri Simonett
All talks in SC 1308

Saturday, October 18:

9:00-9:50 am	Steve Shkoller: A hyperbolic free-boundary problem for 3D compressible Euler flow in physical vacuum
10:00-10:50 am	David Ambrose: On weak solutions for interfacial flows with surface tension
11:10-12:00 pm	Gui Qiang Chen: Compressible vortex sheets and free boundary problems
2:00-2:50 pm	Roman Shvydkoy: On the energy balance relations for incompressible singular flows
3:00-3:50 pm	Alexey Cheskidov: On the maximal enstrophy growth rate for solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations

Sunday, October 19:

9:00-9:50 am	Giovanni P. Galdi: On the motion of a rigid body in a Navier-Stokes liquid under the influence of a time-periodic driving mechanism
10:00-10:50 am	Peter Constantin: The Onsager equation in metric spaces and complex fluids
11:10-12:00 pm	Misha Perepelitsa: Instantaneous boundary tangency and cusp formation in two-dimensional fluid flows

Abstract is available here
Shanks Workshop