Welcome to the 10th International BIFD Symposium, 24-28 June 2024

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Please note there would be a Special Issue "Decade of BIFD Symposia" in the "Journal of Engineering Mathematics".

We will keep you updated on this.

Next BIFD in Aquila, Italy, in 2026!

This acclaimed International Symposium is the latest in this highly successful series, organised by the Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD) Association. BIFD is devoted to promotion of research in instabilities and bifurcations in fluid dynamics.

BIFD2024 is jointly organised by School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Strathclyde and Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.

BIFD Edinburgh 2024 Sponsors

Key contact: Enquiries.BIFD2024@ed.ac.uk

Sponsor Links: Dantec Dynamics and Springer

Photograph of Edinburgh Castle taken from Princes Street Gardens with an ornate golden water fountain in the foreground and blue sky and sunshine

BIFD 2024 now comes to beautiful city of Edinburgh, the home to renowned Scottish greats including James Clerk Maxwell, Peter Guthrie Tait, William Rankine and Joseph Black - all relevant to the study of instabilities! Maxwell marvelled at the stability of Saturn's rings, Kelvin's and Tait's knotted vortex rings, and particle displacement in Eulerian flow - we are nearly convinced that Maxwell's fluid dynamics thinking was the foundation to his later electromagnetic theories! Flow instabilities, the laws of thermodynamics (courtesy William Rankine) and their interplay with fundamental effects such as phase-change and latent heat (courtesy Joseph Black) are all fundamental to modern engineering. In addition to being amongst the top scientific cities in the world, Edinburgh is also ranked the world's best.

International BIFD Symposia

Organised every two years, the International BIFD Symposia offer a unique opportunity to bring together those involved in theoretical, experimental, and computational studies for presentation and discussion of various topics of common interest in the vast area of flow instabilities.

The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss original research, research-expository and survey studies with emphasis on unsolved problems, open questions, and benchmark problems in the theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of stability and bifurcation theory related to fluid dynamics phenomena. The goal is to exchange experiences and to stimulate further interaction leading to establishing new or to intensify existing international collaborations in the field. BIFD gives an excellent platform for early career researchers (Masters/ PhD students, Post-doctoral fellows, and Early career academics) to present their work, discuss with peers and experts and expand their network.

Scope

Instabilities tearing ligaments in an SMX mixer

All flows speak the language of instabilities! Hydrodynamic stability is of such fundamental importance that it impacts design of engineering equipment. Thus, Hydrodynamic Instabilties by itself is a well-established subject of scientific investigation.

The scope of this Symposium covers the entire range of instability and bifurcation phenomena in fluid dynamics - right from fundamental mathematical development, experiments and computational simulations to application design. All of the following topics and their intersections will be considered. But the scope is always building up and is not limited to this!

  • Classical Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Shear, Rotating and Convective Flows (Taylor-Couette, Rayleigh-Bénard, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Bénard-Marangoni, Rayleigh-Taylor, Faraday, Plateau-Rayleigh, Saffman-Taylor etc)
  • Multiphase Flows
  • Flows coupled with heat-transfer and mass-transfer 
  • Phase-change Flows
  • Biological/Biologically-Inspired Flows, Hemodynamics
  • Computational, Experimental and Theoretical Methods
  • Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows
  • Crystal Growth
  • Drops and Bubbles
  • Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Instabilities in Technological Applications,
  • Jet and Wake Instabilities
  • Dynamics of Liquid Films and Drops
  • Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Flows
  • Microfluidics
  • Non-Newtonian Flows
  • Reacting Flows
  • Rotating Flows
  • Compressible Flows
  • Suspensions, Particulate Flows
  • Surface Interactions and Interfacial Phenomena
  • Transition to Turbulence, Turbulent Flows
  • Vortex Dynamics and 3D Vortex Flows
  • Waves
  • Flow Control

Organised by the Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD) Association.

The Dugald Stewart Monument at Calton Hill
The Dugald Stewart Monument at Calton Hill
Old College Quad
Old College Quad nestled in the centre of the University campus
Queensferry Crossing
Queensferry Crossing - a feat of modern engineering