Advances in Advancing Interfaces: The Mathematics of Manufacturing of Industrial Foams, Fluidic Devices, and Automobile Painting

Complex dynamics underlying industrial manufacturing depend in part on
multiphase multiphysics, in which fluids and materials interact across
orders of magnitude variations in time and space. In this talk, we will
discuss the development and application of a host of numerical methods for
these problems, including Level Set Methods, Voronoi Implicit Interface
Methods, implicit adaptive representations, and multiphase discontinuous
Galerkin Methods.  Applications for industrial problems will include modeling
how foams evolve, how electro-fluid jetting devices work, and
the physics and dynamics of rotary bell spray painting across the automotive
industry.