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2025 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 Turbulence16.15 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: Cryosphere
18.05 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: Genera
l27.01 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: Applications28.02 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: AI-Enhanced Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Fluid Dynamics Research

40. Focus Sessions

40.00 Turbulence in Atmospheric-Oceanic Boundary Layers
40.01 Flow Control using Meta-Materials
40.02 Fluids Next: Fluid Mechanics in Energy Harvesting Technologies: from Airfoils to the Sun

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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