Chris Petrie's travel plans

Tue, 14th - Thu, 16th December 2004

Swansea (BSR Council and Conference)

Thu, 24th February 2005

London (part of a longer trip, probably).

Mon, 21st - Wed, 23rd March 2005

Lake Vyrnwy, Wales - Extensional Flow (University of Wales INNFM conference).

Thu, 21st - Sat, 23rd April 2005

AERC 2005, Grenoble.

December 2005

BSR Conference (tba).

Mon, 10th - Wed, 12th April 2006

Miskin Manor, Swansea - Rheometry 3 (University of Wales INNFM conference).

Fri, 3rd - Sun, 5th Augusts 2006

York.

Some past travels:

• 31st August - 2nd September, 1998, Crete
• 6th-11th September 1998, Slovenia
• Ilkley, 16th-18th December 1998
• 's-Hertogenbosch, 31st May - 4th June, 1999
• Lake Vyrnwy, 10th-12th April 2000
• Cambridge, 20th-25th August 2000
• 13th-18th January 2002, Fraunhofer Institute, Kaiserslautern.
• 25th-27th March 2002, Lake Vyrnwy, Wales - Process Modelling.
• 26th-29th May 2002, Capri - DPL.
• 13th-18th September 2002, Erlangen, Germany - 6th European Rheology Conference

Chris Petrie

Latest news: Amelia, 2nd December 2003.

• ENM226 - Discrete Transforms. New material being added here and on the Blackboard system.
• ENG101 - Introductory Computing for Engineers. New material to be added here and on the Blackboard system.
• ENM312 - Matrices. New material to be added here and on the Blackboard system.
• ENM319 - Optimization. New material to be added here and on the Blackboard system.
• Engineering Maths formulae sheet (draft version - Word document).
• Engineering Maths formulae sheet (draft version - PDF file).
• Exam questions and solutions for courses taught by Professor Petrie (to be updated for 2003-04 session).

• Electroviscous journal bearing for active control of vibration of an out-of-balance rotor - paper with Metcalfe, Burdess, Mannings and Petrie for the 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sydney, July 2003.
• Film blowing - paper for the 6th European Rheology Conference, Erlangen, September 2002.
• Less recent writings (research) include
  1. Film blowing - paper for the 6th European Rheology Conference, Erlangen, September 2002.
  2. Exponential shear - list of references
  3. Rheology of fibre suspensions accepted for publication in JNNFM.
  4. Blown film property prediction for PPS15, June 1999.
  5. Extensional rheology presented at the PPS meeting in Göteborg, August 1997.
• Author of Elongational Flows for which a list of errata is available.

Personal and family web pages

• A Grandpa again -- Amelia, 2nd December 2003.
• NEW -- North East WATCH.

• Mother
• Boulder, September 1999.
• Ruby Wedding
• Jean Gilmour, New Kilpatrick Cemetery.
• A birthday tribute to a friend
• A birthday tribute to another friend

• Teacher of engineering mathematics and researcher into rheology.
• Traveller to conferences, and otherwise away from Newcastle?
• Grandfather and formerly a cat owner
• Wedding photographer
• Conference photographer
• See also family (1995) and the next generation.
• It is not widely known that he has a suit.

Currently webmaster for the British Society of Rheology and chair of the sub-committee responsible for the European Society of Rheology web pages and mailing lists. List owner for the JISCmail "eurorheo" e-mail list which was operated for the ESR, currently being phased out.
Also was responsible for pages from the Dynamics of Complex Fluids Programme which took place long ago (1996) at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.
Other lists maintained are rheological web pages and rheology conferences; see also links to some temporary pages.

e-mail: Chris.Petrie@Newcastle.ac.uk
Office telephone: 0191-222-6230 (International +44-191-222-6230)
Home telephone: 0191-285-5131
Official home page
For "snail-mail" and FAX information, see the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering
though you could refer to the old pages of the former Department of Engineering Mathematics.

Information dated 10th October 2003.
If you have any general enquiries, or any problems with this source of information, please contact me, either through the School or preferably by e-mail to me, Chris.Petrie@Newcastle.ac.uk