Abstract: | The 2017 SPHERIC Beijing International Workshop(or SPHERIC Beijing 2017) was held at Peking University, in China,on October 17-20, 2017. This is the first time that the SPHERIC Workshop was held out of Europe. We are delighted to present nine contributions in this Special Column of the Journal of Hydrodynamics, and take this opportunity to announce that the 13 th SPHERIC Workshop(or SPHERIC 2018) will be held in Galway, Ireland in 2018 by the National University of Ireland, and the SPHERIC International Workshop in Harbin, China in 2019 by the Harbin Engineering University. |