Petros Koumoutsakos – författare

In August 2003, ETHZ Computational Laboratory (CoLab), together with the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing in Manno and the Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), organized the Summer School in "Multiscale Modelling and Simulation" in Lugano, Switzerland. This summer school brought together experts in different disciplines to exchange ideas on how to link methodologies on different scales. Relevant examples of practical interest include: structural analysis of materials, flow through porous media, turbulent transport in high Reynolds number flows, large-scale molecular dynamic simulations, ab-initio physics and chemistry, and a multitude of others. Though multiple scale models are not new, the topic has recently taken on a new sense of urgency. A number of hybrid approaches are now created in which ideas coming from distinct disciplines or modelling approaches are unified to produce new and computationally efficient techniques.

Flow Control and Optimization is increasingly incorporated in the design of engineering devices ranging from aircraft and space vehicles to micro?uidic devices. Research in this ?eld aims to integrate knowledge in ?ow physics with theoretical advances and novel experimental capabilities and engineering devices capable of materializing advanced design concepts. In turn controlled ?ow phenomena exhibit a new arrays of physics and open frontiers for further interdisciplinary research in ?uid mechanics and all the engineering domains that it a?ects. This collection of papers in ?ow control, showcases representatives lines of work in the area of ?ow control demonstrating the interdisciplinary character and high scienti?c merit of this ?eld. The authors of these articles are among the pioneering researchers in this ?eld and continue to explore the frontiers in ?ow control and optimization. We hope that this volume, while largely representing work by the authors prior to 2004, contributes in providing an authoritative report on this rapidly changing ?eld.

Flow Control and Optimization is increasingly incorporated in the design of engineering devices ranging from aircraft and space vehicles to micro?uidic devices. Research in this ?eld aims to integrate knowledge in ?ow physics with theoretical advances and novel experimental capabilities and engineering devices capable of materializing advanced design concepts. In turn controlled ?ow phenomena exhibit a new arrays of physics and open frontiers for further interdisciplinary research in ?uid mechanics and all the engineering domains that it a?ects. This collection of papers in ?ow control, showcases representatives lines of work in the area of ?ow control demonstrating the interdisciplinary character and high scienti?c merit of this ?eld. The authors of these articles are among the pioneering researchers in this ?eld and continue to explore the frontiers in ?ow control and optimization. We hope that this volume, while largely representing work by the authors prior to 2004, contributes in providing an authoritative report on this rapidly changing ?eld.