Description: Complex fluids are viscoelastic materials; they are neither solids nor viscous liquids, rather they share properties of both. These material
systems are pervasive, including wide varieties of mixtures,
polymeric solutions, colloidal dispersions, liquid crystals and
liquid crystal polymers. Rheological and hydrodynamic properties are often
amplified through coupling between the transport and deformation of the
microstructure and the related elastic stress relaxation. In an energy variational formulation, this represents a competition between the
kinetic and elastic energies at some posited level of resolution, ranging from molecular to bulk scales.

This symposium emphasizes the material modeling and corresponding numerical simulation involving multiscale spatial and temporal effects of these materials.