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15th November 2022
12:00 to 13:00 Registration and Lunch
13:00 to 13:05 Welcome Maha Kaouri (Isaac Newton Institute)
13:05 to 13:10 Introduction & Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme Tom Weier (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))
Peter Davidson (University of Cambridge)
13:10 to 13:50 The History of Liquid Metal Batteries Donald Sadoway (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Session 1: Stability Theory & Magnetohydrodynamics of Liquid Metal Batteries (Chair: Alban Potherat (Coventry University)
13:50 to 14:45 Batteries, Dynamos, and All That Frank Stefani (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))
14:45 to 15:15 Tea and Coffee Break
15:15 to 15:50 Transition to Turbulence in a Liquid Metal Battery Peter Davidson (University of Cambridge)
15:50 to 16:25 Dynamics and Stability of Flow Structures in Liquid Metal Batteries Douglas Kelley (University of Rochester)
17:00 to 18:00 Drinks and Networking/Posters Reception
16th November 2022
09:15 to 09:45 Tea and Coffee
09:45 to 09:50 Welcome Tom Weier (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))
Peter Davidson (University of Cambridge)
09:50 to 10:45 Overview of Computations of Liquid Metal Magnetohydrodynamics in Liquid Metal Batteries Wietze Herreman (Université Paris Saclay), (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN))
10:45 to 11:15 Metal Pad Roll Instability in Two or Three Layers of Liquid Metals Caroline Nore (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN))
11:15 to 11:35 Tea and Coffee Break
11:35 to 12:30 Transport Phenomena in Liquid Metal Batteries Tom Weier (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))
12:30 to 13:00 Fluid Dynamics of Na-Zn Liquid Metal Batteries Norbert Weber (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))
13:00 to 13:30 Magnetic Field Based Finite Element Method for Liquid Metal Batteries Modeling with Discontinuous Electric Potential Distributions Sabrina Benard (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN))
13:30 to 14:30 Lunch
Session 2: Commercialisation of Liquid Metal Batteries & The Economics of Storage (Chair: Peter Davidson (University of Cambridge)
14:30 to 15:00 The Challenges of Commercialising Liquid Metal Batteries Donald Sadoway (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Donald Sadoway (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
15:00 to 15:30 The Economics of Storage: Lithium-Ion Versus Liquid Metal Batteries Iain Staffell (Imperial College London)
15:30 to 15:50 Tea and Coffee Break
15:50 to 16:20 Discussion and Summary
16:20 to 16:30 Close Maha Kaouri (Isaac Newton Institute)
Tom Weier (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))
Peter Davidson (University of Cambridge)
16:30 Finish