The 9th Millennium International Symposium on FlowVisualization

Abstract

The 9th Millennium International Symposium on Flow Visualization (9misfv) was held in Edinburgh, Scotland from the 22nd August to the 25th August 2000. The symposium attracted, by a significant amount, the largest number of participants in the history of the symposium series. A total of 396 presentations were made at the symposium. These were distributed through 74 technical sessions covering a full spectrum of topics in 373 oral presentations and 23 poster presentations. The symposium commenced with an opening address and welcome to delegates by the Symposium Chairman, Professor I. Grant. The technical presentations commenced with Professor G. M. Carlomagno giving the invited Leonardo da Vinci Memorial Lecture entitled "Infrared Thermography: a Particular Surface Flow Visualization Technique." Each day of the meeting commenced with an invited Keynote lecture, given in plenary session, by a recognised authority in the respective area. These were, in order of presentation, Professor Toshio Kobayashi "High Performance Computation and Visualization of Fluid Flows," Dr. Juergen Kompenhans "Qualitative and Quantitative Visualization of Wake Vortices in Industrial Test Facilities," Professor Jim Whitelaw "Aspects of Unsteady Combustion" and Professor Mory Gharib "On the Role of Flow Visualization in the Understanding of Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics: from da Vinci to Harvey." During the symposium two awards were made to distinguished scientists. These were the Leonardo da Vinci award to Professor Giovanni Carlomagno and the Asanuma award to Professor Wolfgang Merzkirch.