Nordic Rheology Conference
Stavanger, May 29-31, 2024

The 33rd Nordic Rheology Conference (NRC2024) will take place at the University of Stavanger Norway UiS on May 29-31, 2024. The conference will cover subjects ranging from food rheology to rheology within civil engineering. It will be physically hosted and arranged by the Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS.

The conference is planned with various plenary speakers, parallel sessions, and poster presentations and is aimed to promote and propagate rheology at all levels. It will build a broad forum where academia and industry, in their applicational and theoretical guises, can meet, share, and discuss ideas to their mutual benefit.

The conference will be held at the Kjell Arholms building at UiS.

Further information can also be found at University of Stavanger.

The scope and theme for the NRC2024 will be Rheology for Science and Technology. As usual, contributions from experimental and theoretical contributions from all areas of rheology, industrial case studies, and all kinds of contributions are welcomed. The goal of the conference is to create a gathering of people interested in the scientific, technical, and industrial applications within the science of rheology.

Presenters should submit their abstracts by following this link: Abstract registration. The deadline for submission is the 15th of February 2024. During registration, please specify:

• Name of the presenter
• Preference for oral or poster
• Institution/company of the presenter

All contributions within all areas of rheology are welcomed.

Upon acceptance of your abstract, you are cordially invited to submit the manuscript for publication in the Annual Transactions of the Nordic Rheology Society (ATNRS).


Both the LaTeX and Word templates to be used are now available.

Please note that the manuscript must be submitted to the ATNRS Editor: a.h.rabenja@uis.no

All members of the Nordic Rheology Society will have access to the ATNRS in electronic form. The optional fee for a printed copy of the Annual Transactions of the Nordic Rheology Society (ATNRS) is 25 euros. This can be ordered during registration.

Prof. Pier Luca Maffettone, PhD, is Full Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples "Federico II" where he was [2013-18] Chairman of the Department of Chemical-Materials-and-Production Engineering and is [2020-] Member of the University Board. He graduated in 1988 in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. G. Marrucci, and received the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II” in 1993 under the supervision of Prof. G. Astarita. Pier Luca Maffettone became Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II” in 1994. In 1998 he became Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, and then became Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II” in 2005. He was visiting scientist at the University of Delaware, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, at the Stanford University, and at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. His main research activity is focused on modeling and simulation of the flow behavior of soft matter.

More information on his biography and abstract can be found here.

Prof. Helen Wilson has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge, where she worked on instabilities in viscoelastic fluids. Moving to Chemical Engineering for postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she became interested in suspension mechanics. These two themes have continued through her career, first as a lecturer at the University of Leeds, and later at UCL in London where she has recently completed a 5-year term as Head of the Department of Mathematics. She was President of the British Society of Rheology from 2015-2017.

In this keynote, she will talk about suspension mechanics. Solid particles suspended in a liquid show complex rheological behaviours, including shear thinning, shear thickening, and jamming. Over many years we have been growing an understanding of how contact, or contact-like interactions, between particles can impact the microstructure of the suspension and the overall rheology. She will talk about some recent (and not-so-recent) modelling of suspensions in a Newtonian fluid, and if time permits, also a short look into the dynamics of systems where the suspending fluid is weakly viscoelastic.

Prof. John Hinch received his education at Cambridge University, graduating with a B.A. in mathematics in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1972 supervised by George Batchelor on the "Mechanics of suspensions of particles in fluids, with an additional section on the convection due to a moving heat source". After a post-doc at Caltech under the then young Gary Leal, he returned to a faculty position at Cambridge University and since 1998 has been there a Professor of Fluid Mechanics, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2014. He has benefited greatly from many collaborations, first with Andreas Acrivos and his students, and later with experimental groups in France following introductions by Etienne Guyon. His research interests include suspensions of particles and other mobile particulate systems, the flow of non-Newtonian fluids, and applications of mathematics to industrial problems. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, APS, Academia Europeae, NAE and NASI, holds an honorary doctorate from Toulouse, and an honorary professorship from Brasilia, and was awarded the Fluid Dynamics prizes of the APS and the European Mechanics Society, and the gold medal of the British Society of Rheology.

ABSTRACT
Oldroyd B, and not A?
We examine Oldroyd’s 1950 paper On the Formulation of Rheological Equations of State, in which he introduced the now famous upper and lower convected time-derivatives, along with the Oldroyd-A and Oldroyd-B viscoelastic model fluids. Those developments are placed in context of prior ideas and his own subsequent papers on constitutive equations. The choice between the A and B models is addressed by looking at micro-structural studies, finding that something in between is appropriate. Finally, some refinements are discussed in terms of the elastic-dumbbell model.

- February 15th: Deadline for abstract submission.
- February 25th: Approval of abstract.
- April 1st: Deadline for applying for the student travel grant.
- April 15th: Deadline for final submission of manuscripts for the Annual Transaction.

On Wednesday the 29th, a rheology course will be held at the University of Stavanger. The course, which will be held by Annika Sahlström at Reokonsa AB, will give a good basic knowledge of the fundamentals of rheology to make it easier to understand more complicated topics discussed during the conference.

The registration form for the 33rd Nordic Rheology Conference for 2024 is available at:
Registration form

- Registration starts: After abstract approval on February 25th, 2024.
- Early bird registration: Registration starts now. Deadline 31st March.
- Regular registration: 1st of April 2024.
- Deadline for registration: 22nd of May 18:00 CET.

The registration fee includes coverage for lunches, coffee/tea breaks, a guided tour at the Iron Age farm, a boat trip, and a three-course conference dinner at Flor og Fjære.

Optional fee for printed copy of the Annual Transactions of the Nordic Rheology Society (ATNRS) is 25 Euro.

Prices are including VAT. Currency exchange converter can be found here:
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NOTE:
The payments are automatically converted to NOK during check-out.

Cancellation policy:
- Cancellations before April 15th, 2024 will be fully refunded.
- Cancellation after April 15th, 2024 cannot be refunded.
Please contact the Conference Chair, Dr. A.H. Rabenjafimanantsoa a.h.rabenja@uis.no if you wish to cancel your registration.

In addition to publishing your contributions in the NRS Annual Transactions you can also submit longer articles to journals in rheology.

Rheologica Acta is the official journal of the European Society of Rheology and has a long and proud history of publishing the highest quality rheological research in all topic areas. The journal encourages you to submit your work to Rheologica Acta to reach its broad readership and contribute to the ongoing legacy of European rheology.

Applied Rheology is kindly inviting authors to register at their processing system and submit their contribution (both original papers or reviews are welcome). All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer-review process (single-blind, at least two independent reviewers) and will be treated in the same way as other regular articles (indexing, abstracting, immediate publication, etc.). Instructions for authors are available here. The submission deadline is 31.07.2024. In case of any questions please contact Open Chemistry Managing Editor: Małgorzata Komadowska

Guided tour to the Iron Age Farm

Please join us for a guided tour at the Iron Age farm at Ullandhaug which is a living, open-air museum that is open all year round. Open fireplaces provide warmth and atmosphere in the longhouses. Sitting around these open fires gives visitors an intriguing feeling, knowing that a family sat right here 1500 years ago!

More information later.

Accommodation must be booked by own hand.

Some general recommendations of hotels here (with price range, place, distance to Campus, travel time to UiS):
- Ydalir Campus-hotel ($, UiS Campus, 260 m, 3 min walk)
- Thon Hotel Maritim hotel ($, in city centre, 5.4 km, 30 min by bus)
- St. Svithun hotel, Stavanger ($, 2km from city centre, distance 4.2 km, 15 min by bus)
- Radisson Blu Atlantic Hotel ($$, in city centre, distance 5.3 km, ca 25 min by bus)
- Scandic Royal Stavanger ($$, in city centre, distance 5.1 km, ca 30 min by bus)
- Hotel Viktoria, Stavanger ($$, in city centre, distance 5.9 km, ca 30 min by bus)

You can take the bus from Kolumbus.

More options for accomodation can be found here.

From the Airport Sola to Stavanger:
From the airport Sola to Stavanger, the easiest way is to take a bus from Flybuss or Taxi.

Flybuss:
Flybuss departure is every 20 min and the time of travel to Stavanger is 20-30 min.
You can buy the cheapest tickets online here, or on board with Visa, Mastercard with an extra fee.

Ticket with QR code must be provided throughout the trip. The ticket must be presented in paper print or PDF on your mobile/tablet.

Taxi:
Taxi is always available right outside the terminal building at the Airport.
For booking taxi online:
- Stavanger Taxi: Tlf. +47 51 90 90 90
- Siddis Taxi Stavanger: Tlf. +47 47 51 58 66 66
- Norges Taxi: Tlf. +47 08 000
Estimated price between NOK 450 – 600, one trip from the Airport to Stavanger city.

Getting around in Stavanger is easy by walking.
The campus of the University from the city centre is easy to reach by bus. You might use Google map. Taxi is also an option, but it is very expensive.
For the public bus, find your travel planner here.
Your destination bus stop at the University for the venue is: UiS ved Kjell Arholms hus (Stavanger)

How to buy the the bus ticket?
- In the ticket Kolumbus billett app.
- In Entur's, Vy's and Go-Ahead's ticket apps.
- On ticket machine (one at campus, one at Stavanger train station).
- At Stavanger train station, Kolumbus customer service.
- Onboard the bus or train with cash. (This option is not recommended due to the extra fee, and no acceptance of visa or master credit card).

Touristic attractions in and around Stavanger:
Click here you see an overview of recommended landmarks of Stavanger to visit:
- Flor & Fjære Island and garden (price incl. in conference programme)
- Historic site of Iron Age Farm (price incl. in conference program but signing up is required)
- Historic site of Gamle Stavanger (close to the city centre, easy to reach by walking)
- Historic site of Swords in rock (easy to reach by walk and bus from campus)
- Stavanger Cathedral (in the city centre, easy to reach by walking)
- Lysefjord and pulpit rock (guided walking tour recommended or boat tour)

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case of any questions: nrc2024@ux.uis.no

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