Dr. Herbert Steinrück

Herbert Steinrück, holds a diploma degree (1983) and a doctorate degree (1985) in Technical Mathematics from TU Wien, Austria.

After a post doc positions at the Institute of Applied and Numerical Mathematics, TU Wien and at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights , NY, USA, he received the Venia docendi in Applied Mathematics of TU Wien in 1991. Since 1997 and is a.o. Prof. at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer at the TU Wien.

His research interests are focused on asymptotic modeling of industrial processes such as semi conductor device modeling, steel casting problems, internal waves in compressors and other problems.

Topic of Keynote: Experimental and Asymptotic Investigation of a Shear Stress driven Rotary Wave

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Dr. Panagiota Angeli

Prof Panagiota Angeli specializes on complex multiphase flows and their application to process intensification in energy and manufacturing. She received her Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1990, and her PhD from Imperial College London in 1992. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL in 1996.

Prof Angeli was guest editor of the Nuclear Process Engineering Special Issue in ChERD (2013) and was awarded a Leverhulme/RAEng Senior Research Fellowship in 2011. She participates in UK Research Council (EPSRC) and international (Norway, Sweden) research funding review panels, and was appointed Visiting Professor for Multiphase Flows in A* Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore. Her work has been supported by EPSRC and European Union grants and industrial funding (Chevron, GSK, Xaar). She is co-Investigator in the EPSRC flagship project MEMPHIS on multiphase flows and is leading the EPSRC project CORAL on future formulation of complex products. Prof Angeli is currently co-chair of the Multiphase Flows Special Interest Group of the UK Fluids Network. She has published over 130 peer reviewed journal and conference papers.

Topic of Keynote: Liquid-Liquid Two-Phase Flows in Small Channels and the Effects of Polymeric Additives

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Dr. Deborah Kays

Deborah Kays received her MChem (Hons) and PhD degrees in Chemistry from Cardiff University, Wales. After postdoctoral work, also at Cardiff University she took up a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. She was appointed Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham in 2007, followed by promotion to Associate Professor in 2014. Her research interests involve the investigation of the synthesis and reactivity of low-coordinate main group and transition metal complexes, with a view to exploring their use in small molecule activation and catalysis.

Topic of Keynote: Nano-Fluids in Heat Transfer: Research versus Applications

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Dr. Lixin Cheng

Dr. Lixin Cheng is Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader in Chemical Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in Thermal Energy Engineering at the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1998. Dr. Cheng has extensive international working and collaboration experience. He held an associate professor in Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark in 2013-2015. He was a senior lecturer and course leader in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2011-2013, and a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, UK in 2009-2011. He worked as a scientific collaborator in the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2006-2009. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and worked at the Institute of Process Engineering at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany in 2004-2006. He was a senior research fellow at London South Bank University in 2001-2003, and a post-doctoral research fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands in 2000-2001. His research interests include multiphase flow and heat transfer, enhanced heat transfer, micro-scale two-phase flow and heat transfer, nanofluid two-phase flow and heat transfer, compact and micro-heat exchangers, chemical processes and thermal energy system etc. In recent years, he is active in developing cutting-edge interdisciplinary research such as bioenergy, waste utilization and energy efficiency. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences, 10 book chapters and edited 10 books. He is associate editor of Heat Transfer Engineering since 2016. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena (IJMNTFTP) (2010-2014). He is the Editor-in-Chief of e-book series Advances in Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, and editor of SpringerBriefs on “Multiphase Flow” and Book series “Frontiers and Progress in Multiphase Flow” by Springer Verlag in Germany.

Topic of Keynote: On the Phenomenal Mechanisms and Prediction Methods of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Micro-Channels

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Dr. Andrzej Pacek

Professor Andrzej W Pacek received his Master degree from the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. After completing his PhD in Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer, he worked there as a senior lecturer. In 1986 Dr Pacek moved to the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he still works as Professor of Multiphase systems, teaching Advanced Transport Phenomena, Heat Transfer, and Advanced Chemical Reactors.

His research group carries out theoretical and experimental investigations of transport phenomena in dispersed systems and the video-technique for in situ measurements of drops/bubbles/particles developed by Prof Pacek has been recently improved and combined with modified rheometer. This system is now used to investigate the relation between rheology and morphology of multiphase systems. Its new version enables simultaneous measurements of the size of dispersed entities and the shear forces acting on them, and in has been used in liquid/liquid systems and in aggregates/liquid systems.

Prof Pacek has been carrying out extensive investigations of stability of nano-particle suspensions, including the kinetics of breakage of micro-aggregates formed by nano-particles during dispersion of dry nano-powders in liquids. Recently he was one of the leading members of EU sponsored NANOHEX project where the thermal and rheological properties of a wide range of nano-fluids and heat transfer coefficients in different flow geometries were investigated.

Prof Pacek’s research was supported directly by industry, UK government (EPSRC) and EU. Professor Pacek is an advisor for the Research Centre at the University of Porto, a member of editorial boards of several academic journals and a member of the EPSRC College. He is also a visiting Professor at the Szczecin Technical University and delivered several invited lectures at national and international conferences and has extensively published in academic journals.

Topic of Keynote: Nano-Fluids in Heat Transfer: Research versus Applications

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Dr. Oskar J. Haidn

Oskar J. Haidn, born, January 27, 1995 holds a diploma degree in chemical engineering (1984) and a doctorate degree (1991) in fluid mechanics both from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He joined the Institute of Space Propulsion of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 1990 and served there in several positions until he became head of the Technology Department in 1998 and Deputy Director Research and Technology in 1999. He was appointed Professor of Space Propulsion from the Technical University Munich in April 2011 which he joined in October 2011.

His research interests cover all fields of liquid propellant rocket engines such as injection, atomization, ignition, combustion, heat transfer and cyclic life analyses and in particular all types of dynamic processes. He holds several patents in the field and is author and coauthor of more than 250 conference papers, journal articles and book chapters.

Topic of Keynote: Combustion Performance and Heat Transfer in CH4/O2 Model Rocket Combustors

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Dr. Sergei Sazhin

Professor Sergei Sazhin has received his PhD in St Petersburg State University (Russia) during the period of 1972 – 1977. Currently, he is working as Professor of Thermal Physics in the University of Brighton. He is serving as an editorial member of several international refereed journals, an Associate Editor of Journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Sciences (JAMES) (2015– present) and expert reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences. Chairman of the scientific committee of the 27th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK (2016). Member of the World Congress on Engineering (WCE) program committee (since 2008). Member of the program committees of numerous international conferences. He has authored of more than 490 publications, including 3 monographs and 222 papers in international refereed journals. His current ISI Web of Science citation index is 28. He has supervised 14 successful PhD completions over the past 15 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) since 1994. His current research is focused on numerical and asymptotic modelling of fluid dynamics, heat/mass transfer, and combustion processes in Diesel and gasoline sprays.

Topic of Keynote: Modelling Of Automotive Fuel Droplet Heating and Evaporation: Recent Results and Unsolved Problems

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Dr. Antonio Luis Moreira

Professor Antonio Moreira received his Ph. D. in Experimental Combustion from Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon where he is currently Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Mechanical Engineering Department. His main academic and research interests are in the areas of Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems having developed research on the use of advanced techniques for fluid dynamics studies. Recently his research activities focus on the multi-scale transport phenomena occurring at solid-liquid interfaces with innovative potential for multidisciplinary application domains. In this area, he founded the Laboratory of Micro Scale Interfacial Phenomena at the Mechanical Engineering Department of IST. He coordinated and/or participated in multiple R&D projects in energy and micro-fluidics, he has given keynote lectures at international conferences in enhanced heat transfer and has published more than 170 research papers in conference proceedings and journals with peer review. Besides serving on the Organizing Committee of several International Conferences in fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, he is a member of the Scientific Council of the ICHMT and Chairman of the International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics and Director of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+).

Topic of Keynote: The Role of Nanoengineered Wettability in Phase Change Heat Transfer

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