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

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.