Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing is an essential reading for all those concerned with complex fluids, multiphase flows and the intersection of fluid dynamics with materials processing and/or with the more general field of engineering optimization. It features original theoretical, computational, and experimental investigations. All subjects where a material, at a certain stage of its “life”, is in a fluid state, behaves as a fluid (e.g. many types of granular media) or interacts with a fluid should be considered relevant to FDMP. Relevant examples include (but are not limited to) the most modern and advanced processes for the production of inorganic (semiconductors, metal alloys, foams, plastics, polymers, ceramic materials, cement, asphalt and resins of various kinds), organic (protein crystals, drugs and medicines) materials and "living" (in vitro) biological tissues. We are especially interested in those studies where emphasis is put on the fluid-dynamic conditions under which a material is operated. However, FDMP also welcomes manuscripts dealing with more fundamental aspects such as the rheological behavior of multiphase systems or the convective currents that are produced in a fluid as a result of the thermal, chemical and/or mechanical stimuli typically applied in various processing or manufacturing methods (e.g. thermal gradients, shaking, mixing, etc). Some attention is devoted as well to all those problems of “structure/fluid” interaction that have extensive background applications in important fields such as marine, chemical, aeronautical and aerospace engineering and the oil sector, i.e. all those cases where fluid-dynamic analysis is instrumental in guiding the design/optimization of the considered systems (or related components) and the selection of the required “materials”.

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