Multiscale-Multiphysics Phenomena in Complex Fluids: The Energetic Variational Approaches

Series
Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
Time
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005 and https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94954654170
Speaker
Chun Liu – Illinois Institute of Technology
Organizer
Wei Zhu

 

Complex fluids are abundant in our daily life. Unlike traditional solids, liquids and the diluted solutions, the model equations for complex fluids continue to evolve with the new experimental evidences and emerging applications. Most of these important properties are due to the coupling and competition between effects from different scales or even from different physical origins/principles. The energetic variational approaches (EnVarA), motivated by the seminal works of Onsager and Rayleigh, are designed to study such systems. In this talk, I will discuss several complex fluid systems, and the associated mathematical issues.