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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 [122,125], microPIV; nanofibres, electrospinning [106,117]

• Granular flow, application of PIV technique [111,121,124]

• 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 [11,12, 15,33,37,44,46,47,64,72,93,101].

• 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, 28,38,39,42,44,46,47,48].

• 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 [87-89, 91, 97, 103, 109, 110, 115, 118, 120, 123].

• 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, 49-52, 55-59, 62, 65-71, 73-75, 77-79, 83-86, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 105, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 126].

• 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, 113, 126].

• 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