Goal and Topics

The concepts of Fluid Flows and Metamaterials have rarely intersected so far, although individually, they have been researched by vast dedicated communities for years.

This conference aims to bring together world-leading experts from these two research fields and provide a platform for boosting collaborations and developing novel metamaterial solutions for manipulating fluid flows. We will introduce the concepts of architected materials and their unprecedented properties to the Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics community that is now mainly linked to Applied Mathematics and specific fields of Engineering, including Aerospace, Civil, Chemical, and Biomedical Engineering, which not often interact with each other.

This event is the second in the series of scientific events on this topic, following the successful Euromech colloquim in Groningen, The Netherlands in 2025, which planted seeds to form a new network between Advanced Materials, Applied Mathematics, and Engineering to address persistent problems in Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics related to controlling turbulence and secondary flows, fluid-induced vibrations, thermal exchange, stability issues, etc.

The central theme of this conference are metamaterials designed to control thermal, acoustic, and fluid flows through solid-fluid interactions. The scientific focus will be, thus, on the following four central research themes that underpin current research along the mentioned directions.

Elastic and acoustic wave control:

• acoustic and elastic metamaterials

• nonlinear, topological, and tunable elastic metamaterials

• active and multi-functional metamaterials

• ventilated and time-dependent acoustic metasurfaces

Manufacturing methods and metamaterials characterization:

• additive manufacturing of architected materials

• mechanical, ultrasonic, and acoustic testing of metamaterials

• characterization of metamaterials with integrated sensors, energy harvesters, and other components

Fluid flow control:

• thermal flow control

• (aero) acoustic flow control

• sonic and hypersonic flow control

• control of hydrodynamic waves

• control of underwater acoustics

Metamaterial solutions:

• metamaterial absorbers and breakers for water waves

• vibroacoustic and thermoelastic metamaterials

• metamaterial optimization

• inverse and data-driven design of metamaterials