About BIFD

The Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics Association (BIFD) is a non-profit organization devoted to promotion of research in instabilities and bifurcations in fluid mechanics, whose main objective is the organization of a bi-annual international scientific conference. The purpose of the meeting is to present and to discuss original theoretical, computational, and experimental research in stability and bifurcation theory related to fluid dynamical phenomena, with emphasis on open questions and benchmark problems, in order to stimulate international scientific cooperation in the field.

Its scope includes the classical hydrodynamic instabilities in shear, rotating and convective flows (Taylor-Couette, Rayleigh-Benard, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Benard-Marangoni, Rayleigh-Taylor, Faraday) and related topics such as flow in thin films, transition to turbulence, magnetohydrodynamics, geophysical and astrophysical fluids, flow control, bio-locomotion. Industrial, environmental and biomedical applications are welcome; experimental, theoretical and computational studies are all encouraged. 

Previous BIFD conferences:

BIFD 2004 Madeira, Portugal
BIFD 2006 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark
BIFD 2009 University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
BIFD 2011 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
BIFD 2013 Technion, Haifa, Israel
BIFD 2015 Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris, France