Focus

The IMT12 is aimed at discussing the latest results on transport properties on multi-component fluids: innovative theoretical approaches, new experimental results and techniques as well as state-of-the-art numerical methods. The maximum effort will be made to encourage discussion among scientists, sharing of ideas and creating new or reinforcing existing collaborations.

Main topics

• Theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods to investigate thermodiffusion in binary, ternary and multi-component mixtures
• Non equilibrium thermodynamics of fluids under thermal stress
• Non-equilibrium fluctuations in thermally inhomogeneous fluids
• Macromolecular solutions, airborne particles, colloidal suspensions, and biological fluids: the thermophoresis case
• Thermodiffusion in porous media and enhanced oil recovery
• Soret-driven hydrodynamic instabilities and convective patterns
• Thermodiffusion effects in crystal growth and polymer processing
• Thermodiffusion in micro-gravity
• Thermodiffusion in biological transport
• Applications of thermal diffusion