The Fifth International Symposium on Physics of Fluids (ISPF5) was organized by the state key lab for turbulence and complex systems (LTCS), Peking University, during June 9-13, 2013, in Changbaishan, Jilin Province, China. Prof. Lee Cunbiao from LTCS served as the chair of the conference, and Prof. Shu Chang from National University of Singapore and Prof. Zhao Ning from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, served as co-chairs. More than sixty experts and researchers on fluid physics came to attend the conference from Singapore, Australia, America, England and Japan.

The International Symposium on Physics of Fluids has a history of nearly ten years since it was first held in 2005. It gathers leading researchers from major areas of Fluid Physics and provides a rare opportunity to share your experiences with other renown scientists to build net-work for collaborations.

From its origins as a tool primarily for use in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and chemical engineering, the application of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics has spread to a wide range of containing other fields, such as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), bio-engineering, nano-technology, and so on. Many advances have been made in the computational and experimental fluid dynamics such as on the turbulence modeling, flow stability, flow visualization and measurement, development of efficient numerical methods for CFD, micro- and nano-flow study, bio-fluidics, moving boundary flow problem, unsteady flow study, lattice Boltzmann method and its application, meshless method, solution-adaptive approach, immersed boundary method, fluid-structure interaction and energy conversion system.

The theme of this conference is to highlight the current advances and future research and development in physics of fluids with primary focus on the connection between fundamental research and engineering applications. The aim is to assess the current status and to identify the future priority and directions in research and applications of fluid physics field.

The fifth International Symposium on Physics of Fluids is sponsored by LTCS, Peking University and National University of Singapore.