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DFD 2026 November 22-24, 2026

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2026 DFD Meeting sorting categories

1. Acoustics

1.00 Acoustics: General

1.01 Acoustics: Aeroacoustics

1.02 Acoustics: Hydroacoustics

1.03 Acoustics: Thermoacoustics

2. Aerodynamics

2.00 Aerodynamics: General

2.01 Aerodynamics: Control

2.02 Aerodynamics: Fixed, Flapping and Rotating Wings

2.03 Aerodynamics: Fluid-Structure Interactions, Membranes, Flutter

2.04 Aerodynamics: Theory

2.05 Aerodynamics: Vehicles

2.06 Aerodynamics: Wind Energy

3. Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

3.00 Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics: General

4. Biological Fluid Dynamics

4.00 Biological Fluid Dynamics: General

4.01 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Biofilms

4.02 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Collective Behavior and Active Matter

4.03 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Flying

4.03.01 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Flying Birds

4.03.02 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Flying Insects

4.04 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Single Cells and Bacteria

4.05 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Locomotion

4.05.01 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Locomotion: High Reynolds Number Swimming

4.05.02 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Locomotion: Low Reynolds Number Swimming

4.05.03 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Locomotion: Cilia and Flagella

4.05.04 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Locomotion: Non-Newtonian Fluids

4.05.05 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Locomotion: Cells

4.06 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Medical Devices

4.07 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Plant Biomechanics

4.08 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological

4.08.01 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological: Cardiac Flows

4.08.02 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological: Small Vessels and Microcirculation

4.08.03 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological: Large Vessels and Arteries

4.08.04 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological: Lymphatic and CSF Flows

4.08.05 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological: Phonation and Speech

4.08.06 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Physiological: Respiratory Flows

4.09 Biological Fluid Dynamics: Vesicles and Micelles

5. Boundary Layers

5.00 Boundary Layers: General

5.01 Boundary Layers: Laminar

5.02 Boundary Layers: Thermal

5.03 Boundary Layers: Surface Effects, Features, Roughness

5.04 Boundary Layers: Turbulent

5.04.01 Boundary Layers: Turbulent: High Re Effects

5.04.02 Boundary Layers: Turbulent: Wall Modeling

5.04.03 Boundary Layers: Turbulent: Curvature and Pressure Gradient Effects

6. Bubbles

6.00 Bubbles: General

6.01 Bubbles: Biomedical, Cavitation and Acoustics

6.02 Bubbles: Cavitation, Nucleation, Collapse, Coalescence

6.03 Bubbles: Dynamics and Rupture

6.04 Bubbles: Growth, Heat Transfer and Boiling

6.05 Bubbles: Microbubbles and Nanobubbles

6.06 Bubbles: Surfactants and Foams

7. Compressible Flows

7.00 Compressible Flows: General

7.01 Compressible Flow: Instability and Turbulence

7.02 Compressible Flow: Shock Waves and Explosions

7.03 Compressible Flow: Shock-Boundary Layer Interactions

7.04 Compressible Flow: Supersonic and Hypersonic

8. Computational Fluid Dynamics

8.00 Computational Fluid Dynamics: General

8.01 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Algorithms

8.02 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications

8.03 Computational Fluid Dynamics: High Performance Computing

8.04 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Immersed Boundary Methods

8.05 Computational Fluid Dynamics: LES, DNS, Hybrid RANS/LES

8.06 Computational Fluid Dynamics: LBM, SPH, Mesh Free

8.07 Computational Fluid Dynamics: RANS Modeling

8.08 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Shock Capturing, DG, Higher Order Schemes

8.09 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Uncertainty Quantification

9. Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows

9.00 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: General

9.01 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Binary Systems

9.02 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Environmental

9.03 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Free Convection and Rayleigh-Benard

9.04 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Heat Transfer and Forced Convection

9.05 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Particle Laden

9.06 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Stratified Flow

9.07 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Thermal Instability

9.08 Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Turbulent Convection

10. Drops

10.00 Drops: General

10.01 Drops: Coalescence

10.02 Drops: Complex Fluids

10.03 Drops: Dynamic Surface Interactions

10.04 Drops: Electric Field Effects

10.05 Drops: Heat Transfer, Evaporation and Buoyancy Effects

10.06 Drops: Impact, Bouncing, Wetting and Spreading

10.07 Drops: Interaction with Elastic Surfaces, Particles and Fibers

10.08 Drops: Instability and Break-up

10.09 Drops: Multiple Drop Interactions

10.10 Drops: Levitation

10.11 Drops: Particle Laden

10.12 Drops: Sessile and Static Surface Interactions

10.13 Drops: Superhydrophobic Surfaces

11. Electrokinetic Flows

11.00 Electrokinetic Flows: General

11.01 Electrokinetic Flows: Electric Double Layers

11.02 Electrokinetic Flows: Ion-Selective Interfaces

11.03 Electrokinetic Flows: Induced-Charge Flows and Nonlinear Dynamics

11.04 Electrokinetic Flows: Nanochannels and Surface Conduction

11.05 Electrokinetic Flows: Preconcentration, Separations and Reactions

12. Energy

12.00 Energy: General

12.01 Energy: Combustion

12.02 Energy: Storage

12.03 Energy: Water Power

12.04 Energy: Wind Power

12.04.01 Energy: Wind Power: Modeling

12.04.02 Energy: Wind Power: Wakes, Control and Fluctuation

13. Experimental Techniques

13.00 Experimental Techniques: General

13.01 Experimental Techniques: Aerodynamics/Wind Tunnel

13.02 Experimental Techniques: Data Analysis, Bias and Uncertainty

13.03 Experimental Techniques: Quantitative Flow Visualization. PIV, PTV, PLIF

13.04 Experimental Techniques: High-Speed Flow

13.05 Experimental Techniques: Microscale Flow

13.06 Experimental Techniques: Multiphase Flow

13.07 Experimental Techniques: Laser-Based Diagnostics

13.08 Experimental Techniques: Pressure/Temperature Scalar Surface Visualization

14. Free-Surface Flows

14.00 Free-Surface Flows: General

14.01 Free-Surface Flows: Instability

14.02 Free-Surface Flows: Interaction with Structures

14.03 Free-Surface Flows: Turbulence

14.04 Free-Surface Flows: Waves

15. Flow Control

15.00 Flow Control: General

15.01 Flow Control: Actuator Design and Analysis

15.02 Flow Control: Coherent Structures, Vortices and Turbulence

15.03 Flow Control: Drag Reduction

15.03.01 Flow Control: Drag Reduction: Superhydrophobic and Wetting Treatments

15.03.02 Flow Control: Drag Reduction: Structured Surfaces

15.04 Flow Control: Passive

15.05 Flow Control: Separation

15.06 Flow Control: Theory

16. Flow Instability

16.00 Flow Instability: General

16.01 Flow Instability: Boundary Layers and Transition

16.02 Flow Instability: Control

16.03 Flow Instability: Complex Fluids

16.04 Flow Instability: Geophysical

16.05 Flow Instability: Global Modes

16.06 Flow Instability: Interfacial and Thin Film

16.07 Flow Instability: Kelvin-Helmholtz

16.08 Flow Instability: Multiphase Flow

16.09 Flow Instability: Nonlinear Dynamics

16.10 Flow Instability: Pulsating Flows

16.11 Flow Instability: Rayleigh-Taylor

16.12 Flow Instability: Richtmyer-Meshkov

16.13 Flow Instability: Theory

16.14 Flow Instability: Transition to Turbulence

16.15 Flow Instability: Vortex-Dominated Flows

16.16 Flow Instability: Wakes

17. General Fluid Dynamics

17.00 General Fluid Dynamics: General

17.01 General Fluid Dynamics: Drag Reduction

17.02 General Fluid Dynamics: Multi-Physics Phenomena

17.03 General Fluid Dynamics: Obstacles, Flow Constrictions

17.04 General Fluid Dynamics: Rotating Flows

17.05 General Fluid Dynamics: Theory and Mathematical Methods

17.06 General Fluid Dynamics: Viscous Flows

18. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

18.00 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: General

18.01 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric

18.02 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Air-Sea Interaction

18.03 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Climate

18.04 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Cryosphere18.05 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Mesoscale Dynamics, Transport and Mixing

18.06 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Oceanographic

18.07 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Rotating Flows

18.08 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Sediment Transport

18.09 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Stratified Flows

19. Granular Flows

19.00 Granular Flows: General

19.01 Granular Flows: Applications

19.02 Granular Flows: Fluctuations and Instabilities

19.03 Granular Flows: Locomotion and Drag

19.04 Granular Flows: Mixing and Blending, Segregation and Separation

20. Industrial Applications

20.00 Industrial Applications: General

21. Jets

21.00 Jets: General

21.01 Jets: Control

21.02 Jets: Impinging and Interacting

21.03 Jets: Swirling

22. Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics

22.00 Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics: General

22.01 Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics: Methods

22.02 Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics: Turbulence Modeling

22.03 Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics: Flow Control

22.04 Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics: Design

22.05 Low-Order Modeling and Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics: Other Applications

23. Magnetohydrodynamics

23.00 Magnetohydrodynamics: General

24. Microscale and Nanoscale Flows

24.00 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: General

24.01 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Devices and Applications

24.02 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Electrokinetics

24.03 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Interfaces, Wetting, Emulsions

24.04 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Mixing and Separation

24.05 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Non-Newtonian

24.06 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Opto/Electro/Magnetic Manipulation

24.07 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Oscillations and Streaming

24.08 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Particles, Drops, Bubbles

24.09 Microscale and Nanoscale Flows: Theory

25. Multiphase Flows

25.00 Multiphase Flows: General

25.01 Multiphase Flows: Atomization and Sprays

25.02 Multiphase Flows: Bubbly Flows

25.03 Multiphase Flows: Cavitation and Aerated Flows

25.04 Multiphase Flows: Computational Methods

25.05 Multiphase Flows: Modeling and Theory

25.06 Multiphase Flows: Turbulence

26. Nonlinear Dynamics

26.00 Nonlinear Dynamics: General

26.01 Nonlinear Dynamics: Bifurcations and Chaos

26.02 Nonlinear Dynamics: Coherent Structures

26.03 Nonlinear Dynamics: Model Reduction

26.04 Nonlinear Dynamics: Transition

26.05 Nonlinear Dynamics: Turbulence

27. Non-Newtonian Flows: General

27.00 Non-Newtonian Flows: General

27.01 Non-Newtonian Flows: Applications

27.02 Non-Newtonian Flows: Instability and Turbulence

27.03 Non-Newtonian Flows: Hydrodynamics

27.04 Non-Newtonian Flows: Rheology

27.05 Non-Newtonian Flows: Theory

28. Porous Media Flows

28.00 Porous Media Flows: General

28.01 Porous Media Flows: Applications

28.02 Porous Media Flows: Convection and Heat Transfer

28.03 Porous Media Flows: Immiscible Displacements

28.04 Porous Media Flows: Mixing and Turbulence

28.05 Porous Media Flows: Theory

28.06 Porous Media Flows: Wicking and Drying

29. Particle-Laden Flows

29.00 Particle-Laden Flows: General

29.01 Particle-Laden Flows: Clustering

29.02 Particle-Laden Flows: Deformable Particles

29.03 Particle-Laden Flows: Experimental Techniques

29.04 Particle-Laden Flows: Modeling and Theory

29.05 Particle-Laden Flows: Non-Spherical Particles

29.06 Particle-Laden Flows: Particle-Resolved Simulations

29.07 Particle-Laden Flows: Particle-Turbulence Interactions

29.08 Particle-Laden Flows: Fluidization

30. Rarefied Flows

30.00 Rarefied Flows: General

30.01 Rarefied Flows: DSMC

31. Reacting Flows

31.00 Reacting Flows: General

31.01 Reacting Flows: Computational Methods and Simulations

31.02 Reacting Flows: Chemical Kinetics

31.03. Reacting Flows: Detonations, Explosions and DDT

31.04 Reacting Flows: DNS

31.05 Reacting Flows: Extinction and Ignition

31.06 Reacting Flows: Instabilities

31.07 Reacting Flows: LES

31.08 Reacting Flows: Modeling, Theory, PDF and FDF

31.09 Reacting Flows: Sprays, Emissions and Soot

31.10 Reacting Flows: Turbulent Combustion

32. Separated Flows

32.00 Separated Flows: General

32.01 Separated Flows: Control

32.02 Separated Flows: Modeling and Theory

32.03 Separated Flows: Simulations

32.04 Separated Flows: Wakes

33. Suspensions

33.00 Suspensions: General

33.01 Suspensions: Confined Flows

33.02 Suspensions: Fluid-Particle Interaction

33.03 Suspensions: Instability

33.04 Suspensions: Modeling and Theory

33.05 Suspensions: Particle-Resolved Simulations

33.06 Suspensions: Rheology

33.07 Suspensions: Structure and Phase Transitions

34. Surface Tension Effects

34.00 Surface Tension Effects: General

34.01 Surface Tension Effects: Particle-Particle Interactions

34.02 Surface Tension Effects: Interfacial Phenomena

34.03 Surface Tension Effects: Textured Substrates

35. Turbulence

35.00 Turbulence: General

35.01 Turbulence: Boundary Layers

35.02 Turbulence: Buoyancy-Driven

35.03 Turbulence: Compressible

35.04 Turbulence: DNS

35.05 Turbulence: Environmental

35.06 Turbulence: Jets

35.07 Turbulence: LES

35.08 Turbulence: Measurements

35.09 Turbulence: Modeling

35.10 Turbulence: Mixing

35.11 Turbulence: Multiphase

35.12 Turbulence: Particle-Laden

35.13 Turbulence: Planetary Boundary Layer

35.14 Turbulence: Stratification, Rotation and Magnetic Fields

35.15 Turbulence: Theory

35.16 Turbulence: Shear Layers

35.17 Turbulence: Wakes

35.18 Turbulence: Wall-Bounded

36. Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows

36.00 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: General

36.01 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Astrophysical/Geophysical

36.02 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Instability

36.03 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Propulsion

36.04 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Simulations

36.05 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Theory

36.06 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Turbulence

36.07 Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Flows: Wakes

37. Waves

37.00 Waves: General

37.01 Waves: Surface Waves

37.02 Waves: Internal and Interfacial Waves

37.03 Waves: Nonlinear Dynamics and Turbulence

38. Quantum Computing for Fluids

38.00 Quantum Computing for Fluids: General

39. Minisymposium (by invitation only)

39.00 Fluids Next: The Fluid Dynamics of Wildfire

39.01 Quantum Computing for Fluid Dynamics: Past, Now, and Future

40. Focus Sessions

40.00 Fluid Dynamics Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

40.01 FLUIDS NEXT: Autonomy in Bio-Inspired Swimming and Flying Robots

41. Fluid Dynamics: Education, Outreach, and Diversity

41.00 Fluid Dynamics - Education and Outreach

41.01 Fluid Dynamics - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

42. Fluid Dynamics: Student Poster Competition

42.00 Theoretical/Computational

42.01 Experimental

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