Multi-Scale Structures
Understanding and quantifying spatio-temporal multi-scale structures present a challenge to chemical engineering science not only for scaling-up different processes but also for manipulating material structures and properties. With the development of complexity science, multi-scale structures received more and more attention in chemical engineering, focusing on the bridge between micro-mechanism and macro-behaviour. It was proposed that a progress in understanding multi-scale behaviour will lead to a breakthrough in the whole chemical engineering. This topic aims at the complexity of multi-scale phenomena, methodologies in simulation, measurement and possible application of multi-scale methods in industries.
Confirmed keynotes
Anton P.J. Middelberg 
Chun-Xia Zhao
Erik Miller
Justin J. Cooper-White
Annette F. Dexter
" Engineering Biomolecular Systems "
Jean-Claude Charpentier
" Among the trends for a modern chemical engineering: the time and length multiscale approach as an efficient tool for process intensification and product design and engineering. "
Aibing Yu
Qinghua Zeng
" Toward an multiscale understanding of the structures of nanoparticle-polymer nanocomposites. "
Scope
This topical conference is dedicated to Understanding and quantifying spatio-temporal multi-scale structures.
The proposed topics are :
Complexity of spatio-temporal multi-scale structures
- Correlation and/or dependence between different scales
- Stability conditions in complex systems
- Coupling between spatial and temporal heterogeneity
- Non-linear and non-equilibrium features
Simulation and modeling of multi-scale structures
- Quantum and molecular dynamics simulation
- Direct numerial simulation
- Multi-scale methodology
Measurement techniques for multi-scale structures
- Non-intrinsic measurement of dynamic processes
- Electrical/magnetic methods
- Noval optical methods
Application of multi-scale methods
- Scaling-up of processes
- Understanding material structures and designing material properties
Publication
This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. However, we encourage the submission of the full articles to Journals.
Organizers
Prof. Jinghai LI
Institute of Process Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O.Box 353, 100080, Beijing, China
jhli@home.ipe.ac.cn
Prof. John Grace
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
jgrace@chml.ubc.ca
Prof.Y. Huang
Director, Laboratory for Multiscale Complex Systems Science and Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202
yhuang@wayne.edu