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Keywords: Fluid mechanics, multiphase flow, free surface flow, thermally driven flow, flow with phase changes. Experimental and numerical methods.

• Micro-fluidics - transition to turbulence in microchannels [120,123], microPIV; nanofibres, electrospinning [105,115]

• Granular flow, application of PIV technique [109,119,122]

• Experimental investigations of liquid jet break-up. Evidence of ``super'' thin liquid bridges between liquid jet and the droplet. Instability of evaporating jets, modeling of droplet and liquid jet evaporation, dynamic of growth of single vapour bubble, evaporation of emulsions, nano-fibres [11,12,15,33,37,45,46,63,71,99,104,106,114].

• Experimental and numerical investigation of nonlinear droplet oscillations. Description of droplet deformation. Development of non-intrusive method to measure dynamic surface tension, measurements of the physical parameters of evaporating surface by oscillating droplet method [13,20,22,23,27,28,38,39,42,44-48].

• Development of high speed video recording methods based on CCD ``frame-transfer'' camera and image processor. Application of the method for investigation of droplets and jet instabilities [10,13,17,21,34,45].

• Development of a computer supported neurosurgical navigator [ Euromech406 in IFTR Reports 4/1999, pp. 107-110, internal report]

• Turbulence, modelling atmospheric flows, mixing in clouds [86-88,90,91,96,102,112,113,116,118].

• Experimental and numerical investigation of natural convection, identification of new flow structures; investigation of natural convection in presence of phase change (freezing) [14,16,18,26,29,31,43,48-51,54-75, 82,94,95,97,98,100,102,103,105,109,111,113].

• Development of new experimental technique for instantaneous measurement of temperature and velocity two-diemnsional fields in thermal flow, based on application of liquid crystal as tracers [9,16,31,36,51,63,66-68,70,71,88,89,98,124].

• Investigations of low Reynolds number two-phase flow in tubes (solid and liquid suspensions). Application of new measuring techniques for measuring velocity and particle concentration, laser doppler and ultrasound doppler anemometry [1-8,53].

RECENT INETRNATIONAL PROJECTS

• FLOXCOM - 5FP EU project
  
• VTMX - DOE's Environmental Meteorology Program
  
• PIVNET2 - 5FP EU thematic network
  
• EMMA - CONEX project on Production and stability of emulsions containing nanoparticles and their use for new materials
  
• ABIOMED - Center of Excelence
  
• METRO - Leonardo Pilot Project
  
• NADIA - 6FP EU Project
  

RESEARCH PARTNERS

• Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen
  W. Hiller
  
• University of New South Wales, Sydney
  G. de Vahl Davis
  E. Leonardi
  
• LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay
  P. Le Quere , J. Pakleza
  
• University of Rome, "La Sapienza"
  F. Stella
  
• TECHNION, Israel
  Y. Levy, G. Hetsroni, A. Solan, A. Gelfgat
  
• Arizona State University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  D. Boyer (MAE), H.J.S. Fernando (EFD)
  VTMX field experiment in Utah
  
• Fachhochschule Stralsund -University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  J. Szymczyk
  
• Warsaw University of Technology
  J. Banaszek
  
• University of Mining and Metalurgy, Cracow
  J. Szmyd