SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!!



DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30th, 2017.


Flowing matter lies at the crossroads between industrial processes, fundamental physics, engineering and Earth Sciences. Problems are often too complex to be attacked from first principle or by brute force numerical methods. We need to model to reduce the number of degrees of freedom and/or we need to control to drive the system toward a less unpredictable behaviour. We are considering multi-scale interactions among a fluid matrix and dispersed structures as for the case of an assembly of molecules, mesoscopic particles, active biological and artificial entities, solid macroscopic objects or turbulent `coherent' fluctuations. We often understand the microscopic or individual behaviour but we lack a way to systematically upscale the problem to continuum descriptions. Flowing matter frequently presents a tight coupling between multi-scale structures and large-scale flow urging for a unifying view at both Lagrangian and Eulerian levels.
Can we control complex flows by suitable Eulerian/Lagrangian optimal feedback? How to downsize the complexity and develop accurate sub-grid or multi-scale models? Can one learn how to escape from strong turbulent fluctuations? Or how to harvest fluid energy in a efficient way? What about robustness and universality of hydrodynamical models for active matter?

The European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter and Biological Physics - is planning a special issue on the following topics:

i) modelling of active matter by continuum Eulerian approaches;
ii) tailoring active particles to achieve optimal goals;
iii) understanding how biological organisms learn and evolve in complex environments;
iv) modelling/controlling turbulent flows in order to optimise applied problems or to develop fundamental understanding of multiscale dynamics;
v) applying machine learning or modern data assimilation techniques to cope with big-data and/or complex behaviour in a high dimensional phase space.

The submission is open to everyone working in the field. We invite contributors to communicate their intention to submit manuscripts for this Special Issue to the Guest Editors as soon as possible. The full manuscripts should be submitted before 30th September 2017 directly to the EPJE Editorial Office.

Submissions should be clearly identified as intended for the Special Issue "Fluids and Structures: Interaction and Modelling". Papers will be published continuously and will appear (as soon as accepted) on the journal website. The electronic version of the Special Issue will contain all accepted papers in the order of publication. All submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual high standards of the journal. More general information about EPJE including instructions for authors is available at epje.epj.org.