The 8th ISUD will be in Dresden/Germany in September 2012.
ISUD conference was first launched in 1996 at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland by Professor Yasushi Takeda, who was already using and developing an ultrasonic Doppler method and apparatus for physics applications since the eighties. Seeing the extraordinary potential of all related methods and the growing interest of researchers worldwide in various scientific fields, he decided to establish a regular meeting where anyone of concern could exchange experiences, results and methodology issues. Since then the success of this international symposium has never stopped growing, leading to its original triennial frequency being reduced to two years as of the third edition in 2002 due to an increasing number of presentations.
The purpose of the Symposium is to convene both specialists and newcomers to share the present knowledge about the ultrasonic Doppler methods, presenting the various studies conducted using such methods, the related methodology development itself and the implied future prospects.
Approximately one third of the studies presented deals with fundamental scientific topics while the remaining two third aims at engineering applications. Recent trends are spatio-temporal flow structure analysis, large-scaled measurement in environmental hydraulics, studies of industrial flows such as liquid metal or multi-phase oil flows, and integration of the method for in-line process-control monitoring rheological properties of flowing food suspensions. New connections were recently initiated with researchers in the medical field where ultrasonic Doppler methods were first used.
The ISUD conference started in 1996 with 20 presentations and 39 participants. In 2008 for the 6th edition 40 presentations are programmed and 70 participants registered, the participation rate nearly doubling in one decade. To date about 50 institutions in more than 20 countries on 4 continents have an active interest in ISUD conference.
Chair: Prof. J. Windhab (Food Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland)
| S. A. K. Jeelani | Food Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland |
| Contact: | |
| G. De Cesare | Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland |
| M. Mori | Tokyo Electric Power Co., lnc. (TEPCO), R&D Center, Yokohama, Japan |
| H. Kikura | Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ohokayama, Japan |
| Y. Tasaka | Division of Energy & Environmental Systems, School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
| V. Bareš | Department of Sanitary and Ecological Engineering, CTU Prague, Czech Republic |
| J. Wiklund | SIK Gothenburg, Sweden |
| B. Birkhofer | Sika Services AG, Switzerland |
| C. Rennie | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| S. Fischer | Ubertone, France |
| S. Eckert | Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD), MHD Department, Dresden, Germany |
1st ISUD Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland, 9. - 11. September 1996
2nd ISUD Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland, 20. - 22. September 1999
3rd ISUD EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9. - 11. September 2002
4th ISUD Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 6. - 8. September 2004
5th ISUD ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 12. - 14. September 2006
6th ISUD Czech Technical University, Prague, 9. - 11. September 2008
7th ISUD Chalmers University, Gothenburg, 7. - 9. April 2010 togehter with the 6th Annual European Rheology Conference