10/13/2010

Peter Constantin
University of Chicago

Incompressible Fluids: Simple Models, Complex Fluids

Complex fluids are fluids with particles suspended in them. The particles are carried by the fluid, interact among themselves, and influence the fluid's behavior. I will describe some of the basic questions of existence, uniqueness, regularity and stability of solutions of models of complex fluids, in the broader context of incompressible hydrodynamic PDE.