Dr.-Ing. Stefan Becker

He studied mechanical engineering with specialization in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Since 1991 he has worked at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg in the Institute of Fluid Mechanics. In 1996 he finished his doctor thesis with the topic “Flow around bluff bodies in wall boundary layers”. During 1997/1998 he had a research stay at the INEEL, USA (Department of Energy), Lookheed Martin. After finishing his habilitation thesis “ Measurements and their Applications for Turbulence Characterization of Wall Mounted Flows”.

Now Stefan Becker is head of research and leader of the group Fluid System Dynamics and Aeroacoustic at the Institute of Process Machinery and Systems Engineering at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His special research interests include aerodynamics, fluid-structure interaction, fluid-structure-acoustic interaction, and measurement techniques. He also heads the special interest group aeroacoustic of the German Acoustical Society (DEGA) and is member of the management Board and coordinator of the pilot center south of the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC). At the moment several research projects from European Union, German/Bavarian Research Foundation, and long-term industrial projects are dealt with in his research group involving development and application of experimental and numerical techniques as well. He published more than 50 revised international journal publications.

Topic of Keynote: Aeroacoustics of HVAC Systems: Simulation and Experiment

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Dr. Jaroslav Kruis

Dr. Jaroslav Kruis received his MSc and PhD in civil engineering in 1994 and 1999 from the Czech Technical University in Prague. He become full professor in 2015. His re- search interests are numerical methods for coupled thermo-mechanical problems, coupled hydro-thermal problems and coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical problems. He works also in the area of methods for solution of large algebraic systems of equations and parallel computing. Professor Kruis taught and teaches many course, e.g. Modelling of structures exposed to fire, Dynamics of stuctures, Reliability of structures and Loading and reliabil- ity. He gives lectures in international Ph.D. courses (PhD Course on High Performance Computations for Engineering, Pecs, Hungary; An ECCOMAS Advanced Course on Com- putational Structural Dynamics, Prague, Czech Republic). During the last 10 years, he was a principal investigator of 3 grant projects dealing with coupled heat and moisture transport and he works in the Center of excellence where building materials are designed, optimized and tested in laboratories. Apart from these projects, he was a principle in- vestigator of 4 grant projects and he was a member of more than 30 teams solving grant projects in Czech Republic. He is an author of one book (Domain Decomposition Methods for Distributed Computing, Saxe-Coburg Publications, Kippen, Stirling, Scotland, 2006) and about 140 contributions in international conferences or journals. Professor Kruis is a member of 3 editorial boards of international journals (Advances in engineering Software, Pollac Periodica, Acta Technica Jaurinensis) and more than 25 international conferences and symposia. He serves as a reviewer in many international journals.

Topic of Keynote: Coupled Heat, Moisture and Salt Transport in Civil Engineering Structures Performed on Parallel Computers

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Dr. Sean Sanders

Dr. Sean Sanders is an award-winning educator and researcher whose scientific interests intersect with his concern for the environmental aspects of resource extraction. He has the rare ability to be equally at home in a mine’s control room speaking with operators, delivering a lecture on fluid mechanics to an auditorium full of students, or conducting demonstrations on energy utilization with primary school-aged children.

Sanders received his BSc in Chemical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Saskatchewan. After completing his PhD at the University of Alberta, Sanders joined Syncrude Canada Ltd. and held a number of technical and leadership positions within the company’s Research and Operations’ divisions over the next 9 years. Sanders joined the University of Alberta’s Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering in 2006 and received the student-nominated Faculty of Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award that year. He has since received the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

In 2008, the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Pipeline Transport Processes, a multimillion dollar research collaboration among the University, industry and Canadian government was established, under Dr. Sanders’ direction. The research programme specifically addresses important multiphase flow and process commercialization questions in heavy oil production, flow assurance, mining and mineral processing. In 2012, he received the Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Award for Innovation in Oil Sands Research.

As Scientific Advisor for numerous international oil and gas, mining and pipeline companies, Sanders has provided technical support for development, scale-up and commercialization of many multiphase fluid processing and transport projects. In addition, Sanders teaches a series of professional development courses on the design and operation of multiphase flow pipelines. Since April 2006, about 500 practicing engineers have attended these courses. He has contributed to public policy forums on energy use and GHG emissions. He is currently an Associate Editor for The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Topic of Keynote: Multiphase Pipeline Flow Research: Challenges of Scale-up and Opportunities for Process Intensification

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Dr. Pedro Coelho

Dr. Pedro Coelho graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 and received his Ph.D. in 1992 at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of IST, being responsible for the group of disciplines of Transport Phenomena. He has been vice-President of the Mechanical Engineering Department since 2009. He has about 80 papers published in international journals, and 100 papers presented at international conferences. He is co-author of a book on Combustion (in Portuguese) for undergraduate and master students. His research is in the field of numerical simulation of heat transfer and combustion problems. Specific areas of interest are radiation models, gas radiative properties, turbulence-radiation interaction, turbulent diffusion flames, mild combustion and industrial combustion equipment. He is reviewer of about 50 international journals. He is member of the Eurotherm Committee for the Advancement of Thermal Sciences and Heat Transfer, member of the Scientific Council, Assembly and Executive Committee of the International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer, member of the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences and member of the Assembly of the World Conference (AWC) on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics. He is member of the Editorial Board of several journals, and associate editor of the J. Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.

Topic of Keynote: Radiative Transfer in Combustion Processes

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Prof. John Chew

John Chew is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK and specialises in turbomachinery research, particularly in the area of internal air systems. He established, and directed for ten years, the Thermo-Fluid Systems University Technology Centre at Surrey, and has served in several managerial roles at the University. He is currently Editor for the Proc. IMechE, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. Prior to joining the University, John was a Corporate Specialist in Aeroelasticity and Heat Transfer for Rolls-Royce at Derby.

John holds a BSc in Mathematics from Sheffield University and a D.Phil from the University of Sussex. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the ASME, and an Fellow of the RAeS.

Topic of Keynote: Exploiting CFD in Aero-Thermo-Mechanical Modelling of Aeroengines

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