Hydrodynamic stability is of fundamental importance in fluid dynamics and is a well-established subject of scientific investigation that continues to attract great interest of the fluid mechanics community. Hydrodynamic instabilities of prototypical character are, for example, the Rayleigh-Bènard, the Taylor-Couette, the Bènard-Marangoni, the Rayleigh-Taylor, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. A fundamental understanding of various patterns of bifurcations such as identifying the most dominant mechanisms responsible for the instability threshold is also required if one is to design reliable and efficient industrial processes and applications, such as melting, mixing, crystal growth, coating, welding, flow re-attachment over wings, and others. Modeling of various instability mechanisms in biological and biomedical systems is currently a very active and rapidly developing area of research with important biotechnological and medical applications. Modeling of various instability mechanisms in biological and biomedical systems is currently a very active and rapidly developing area of research with important biotechnological and medical applications (biofilm engineering, wound healing, etc.). The understanding of breaking symmetry in hemodynamics could have important consequences for vascular biology and diseases and its implication for vascular interventions (grafting, stenting, etc.).

The symposium is aimed at bringing together scholars with mutual interest in computational, experimental, and theoretical methods for the analysis of bifurcation and instability phenomena in fluid dynamics.

The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss original research, research-expository and survey studies with emphasis on unsolved problems, open questions, and benchmark problems in the theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of stability and bifurcation theory related to fluid dynamics phenomena. The goal is to exchange experiences and to stimulate further interaction leading to establishing new or to intensify existing international scientific cooperation in the field.