Mike Evans (University of Leeds) – Understanding non-Newtonian fluids using the XY model

Kicking off the CMIM group's series of seminars to review our past and current research, Mike Evans will revisit work on the XY model. A remarkably simple dynamical model exhibits many of the complex flow regimes and non-equilibrium phase transitions characteristic of complex fluids. By removing extraneous detail, this simplest microscopic model of non-Newtonian flow has the potential to reveal universal principles relevant to all complex fluids.