Environmental fluid mechanics problems for the 21st Century: Strategies for removal of heavy metals from water and the role of external fields in bioremediation 1. Aims of the collaborative project

1. Aims of the collaborative project We aim to establish collaborations between the Complex Fluids Group at Princeton and the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) in the broad spectrum of overlapping research interests in complex fluid flows. This initiative will involve exchange of personnel, as well as organizing and running problem-solving workshops which will unite researchers from both groups to tackle topical issues arising in the real world. Our initial focus will be on the removal of heavy metals from water (see section 3a), although we envisage discussions broadening to include other key problems (see section 3b) over the course of the two years.