FiNZ 2015 List of attendees

• Prof David Fletcher (Sydney) Simulation and experimental study of single and two phase flow in microchannels
• Ass. Prof Mark Jermy (Canterbury) Blood-mimicking fluids for forensic science: matching non-Newtonian viscosity and stickiness
• Dr Sharon Stephen (Sydney) Passive control of instabilities in hypersonic flow

Contributed talks - each speaker will give a 20-minute talk with 5 minutes available for discussion:

• Mr Cletus Adams (Canterbury) Physico-mathematical model of the effect of high flow therapy on work of breathing
• Mr Jonathan Aplin (Canterbury) Using PIV to quantify the therapeutic mechanisms of nasal cannula therapy in new-borns
• Dr Sid Becker (Canterbury) Pressure predictions of Darcian flow in non-uniform media
• Mr Bradley Boyd (Canterbury) Theoretical modelling of in vivo skin electroporation: degree of electroporation and mass transfer enhancement
• Mr Eric Bretscher (Auckland) Fast and economical small displacement monohull vessels
• Mr Alan Caughley (Callaghan Innovation/Canterbury) Development of a diaphragm Stirling cryocooler
• Mr David Collinson (Canterbury) Development of a cost-efficient method for micro-scale heat transfer and temperature studies
• Dr Rob Connell (Lincoln Agritech) Modelling the spray drift of the spray jet under an agricultural nozzle and Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling an area with shelterbelts
• Prof Jim Denier (Auckland) An experimental study of the flow though porous cylinders
• Mr Vinit Dighe (Auckland) Modeling smart wind turbine blades
• Dr Patrick Geoghegan (Canterbury) Flow dynamics and wall shear stress downstream of a stenosis in a compliant blood vessel
• Mr James Hewett (Canterbury) Comparison of Eulerian and Lagrangian colloidal deposition in laminar flow
• Messrs Nathan Hoogendorp & Albert Laffra (Wageningen UR) Fluid dynamics of expectorate blood spatter revealed by means of high speed imaging
• Mr Irshad Khodabocus (Canterbury) Marangoni flow induced in a thin-liquid film by the presence of a volatile solvent
• Ms Eryn Kwon (Auckland) Investigation of cranial ballistic backspatter using computational simulation and physical models
• Ms Rebecca McPherson (NIWA) Energy distribution and dissipation in a freshwater plume flowing into a highly stratified fjord
• Ms Vivienne Ng (Canterbury) Engineering surface traces for self-propulsion of droplets
• Dr Volker Nock (Canterbury) Laminar flow devices for measuring the diffusional coefficients of proteins and protein complexes
• Ms Louise Orcheston-Findlay (Canterbury) Controlling the oxygen microenvironment in 2D cancer cell monolayers on-chip
• Dr Scott Post (Lincoln Agritech) Calibration of mass flux measurements of a phase-doppler interferometer
• Messrs Younes Roqai-Chaoui & Ferdinand Fraulob (UTBM) Gravity currents: experimentation and simulation
• Ass. Prof. Mathieu Sellier (Canterbury) Modelling two-phase slug self-propulsion in a capillary
• Mr Sandeep Siwach (Canterbury) Design of heat exchangers - a CFD approach
• Mr Timm Treskatis (Canterbury) An interdisciplinary approach to viscoplasticity
• Mr Adam Tunney (Auckland) A new mode of instability in compressible boundary-layer flows
• Dr Shixiao Wang (Auckland) On the stability of a solid-body rotation flow in a finite-length circular pipe
• Dr Geoff Willmott (Auckland) Understanding drop impacts on hydrophobic and microstructured surfaces

Other attendees:

• Mr Joel Balmer
• Dr John Cater (Auckland)
• Ms Natalia Kabaliuk (Canterbury)
• Dr Mike Kingan (Auckland)
• Mr Tet Chuan Lee (Auckland)
• Mr Ben Roberts (Canterbury)
• Mr Alex Schuddeboom (Canterbury)