Proceedings of the 4th World Congress
on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (MHMT'19)
APRIL 12 - 14, 2018 | ROME, ITALY
The keynote information for the 4th World Congress on Recent Advances in Nanotechnology (MHMT'19) is as follows:
Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar
Oklahoma State University, USA
ENFHT'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Boo Cheong Khoo
National University of Singapore, Singapore
ENFHT'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. BoFeng Bai
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
ENFHT'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis
Brunel University London, UK
ICMFHT'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lixin Cheng
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
ICMFHT'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Guodong Xia
Beijing University of Technology, China
ICMFHT'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Johannes Kiefer
University of Bremen, Germany
CSP'19 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Qinling Li
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
CSP'19 Keynote Speaker
ENFHT'19 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar
Oklahoma State University, USA
ENFHT Keynote
Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar is Regents and John Brammer Endowed Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA and an Honorary Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. He received his BS, MS, and PhD all in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. His expertise is in experimental heat transfer/fluid mechanics and development of practical engineering correlations. Dr. Ghajar has made significant contributions to the field of thermal sciences through his experimental, empirical, and numerical works in heat transfer and stratification in sensible heat storage systems, heat transfer to non-Newtonian fluids, heat transfer in the transition region, and non-boiling heat transfer in two-phase flow. His current research is in two-phase flow heat transfer/ pressure drop studies in pipes with different orientations, heat transfer/pressure drop in mini/micro tubes, and mixed convective heat transfer/pressure drop in the transition region (plain and enhanced tubes). Dr. Ghajar has been a Summer Research Fellow at Wright Patterson AFB (Dayton, Ohio) and Dow Chemical Company (Freeport, Texas). He and his co-workers have published over 200 reviewed research papers and 10 book/handbook chapters. He has delivered numerous keynote and invited lectures at major technical conferences and institutions.
He has received several outstanding teaching, research, advising, and service awards from College of Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His latest significant awards are the 75thAnniversary Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division "in recognition of his service to the heat transfer community and contributions to the field", awarded in 2013, the ASME ICNMM 2016 Outstanding Leadership Award, this award recognizes a person whose service within the ICNMM (International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels) is exemplary; and the 2017 Donald Q. Kern Award “in recognition of his outstanding leadership in the field of heat exchangers and two-phase flow, book and archival publications, and service to the academic and industrial professionals”. Dr. Ghajar is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Heat Transfer Series Editor for CRC Press/Taylor & Francis (he has edited ten books to date), and Editor-in-Chief of Heat Transfer Engineering, an international journal published twenty times per year by Taylor and Francis. Heat Transfer Engineering is aimed at practicing engineers and specialists in heat transfer. Dr. Ghajar is also the co-author of the 5th Edition of Cengel and Ghajar, Heat and Mass Transfer – Fundamentals and Applications, McGraw-Hill, 2015. The 6th edition is in press and will be available in 2019.
Topic of Keynote:
Transitional Flow in Tubes: Experimental Results and Recommended Correlations for Calculation of Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer in Plain and Micro-fin Tubes
Dr. Boo Cheong Khoo
National University of Singapore, Singapore
ENFHT Keynote
BC Khoo graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (Honours, 1st Class with Distinction). In 1984, he obtained his MEng from the NUS and followed by PhD from MIT in 1989. He joined NUS in 1989.
From 1998 to 1999, he was seconded to the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC, Singapore) and served as the deputy Director and Director of Research.
In 1999, BC returned to NUS and spent time at the SMA-I (Singapore MIT Alliance I) as the co-Chair of High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems Program till 2004. In the period 2005-2013, under the SMA-II, he was appointed as the co-Chair of Computational Engineering Program.
In 2011-2012, BC was appointed the Director of Research, Temasek Laboratories, NUS. Since 2012, he has been the Director, Temasek Laboratories
BC Khoo serves on numerous organizing and advisory committees for International Conferences/Symposiums held in USA, China, India, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and others. He is a member of the Steering Committee, HPC (High Performance Computing) Asia. He has received a Defence Technology Team Prize (1998, Singapore) and the prestigious Royal Aeronautical Prize (1980, UK). Among other numerous and academic and professional duties, he is the Associate Editor of Communications in Computational Physics (CiCP) and Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (AAMM), and is on the Editorial Board of American Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Ocean Systems Engineering (IJOSE), International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (IJIUS), The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal (OME) and The Open Ocean Engineering Journal.
In research, BC ‘s interest are in:
- (i) Fluid-structure interaction
- (ii) Underwater shock and bubble dynamics
- (iii) Compressible/Incompressible multi-medium flow
He is the PI of numerous externally funded projects including those from the Defense agencies like ONR/ONR Global and MINDEF (Singapore) to simulate/study the dynamics of underwater explosion bubble(s), flow supercavitation and detonation physics. His work on water circulation and transport across the turbulent air-sea interface has received funding from the then BP International for predicting the effects of accidental chemical spills. Qatar NRF has funded study on internal sloshing coupled to external wave hydrodynamics of (large) LNG carrier.
BC has published over 350 international journal papers, and over 360 papers at international conferences/symposiums. He has presented at over 110 plenary/keynote/invited talks at international conferences/symposiums/meetings.
Topic of Keynote:
Drag reduction and heat transfer in turbulent channel flow over circular
dimples: shifting the deepest point of dimples
Dr. BoFeng Bai
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
ENFHT Keynote
Dr. BoFeng Bai is a Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He received his BE, ME and Ph.D all in Power Engineering & Engineering Thermophysics at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1993, 1995 and 1999, respectively. His research area covers multiphase flow fundamentals and applications in thermal engineering, power engineering as well as petroleum engineering. He has published over 200 journal papers including Journal of Fluid Mechanics and International of Multiphase Flow, given over 20 invited lectures at technical conferences and institutions, and supervised 13 doctoral students. He is the member of editorial board of Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier) and Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer (Begell House), the recipient of several awards, including China National Ten Thousand Talent Program and China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists.
Topic of Keynote:
Turbulent Heat Transfer of Supercritical Fluids: Fundamentals and
Modeling
ICMFHT'19 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis
Brunel University London, UK
ICMFHT Keynote
Tassos Karayiannis studied at the City University London and the University of Western Ontario (Western). He started his career as a researcher at Southampton University and later as a British Technology Group Researcher at City University. Subsequently he worked at London South Bank University and joined Brunel University London in 2005 where he is now professor of Thermal Engineering and Leader of the Energy Efficient & Sustainable Technologies Theme. Professor Karayiannis has carried out fundamental and applied research in a number of heat transfer related topics including natural convection and renewable energy. He has been involved with two-phase flow and heat transfer for over 30 years. Initially he worked on the enhancement of pool boiling and condensation processes using high intensity electric fields (Electrohydrodynamic enhancement of Heat Transfer). In parallel, he carried out extensive experimental work in pool boiling heat transfer with plane and enhanced surfaces. Professor Karayiannis has also been very actively involved with research in flow boiling in small to micro tubes and micro-multi-channels. This work involves fundamental studies as well as research leading to the design of high heat flux integrated thermal management systems. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Innovate UK and Industry. He has published more than 230 papers, chapters in books and industrial reports. He chaired the following conferences/meetings: 48th European Two Phase Flow Group Meeting, 2010 the 9th UK-Japan Seminar on Multiphase flows 2013 and the 15th UK National Heat Transfer Conference, 2017. He also chairs the Int Conf on Micro and Nanoscale flows now in its 6th edition. He is a Fellow of the EI and the IMechE and the Chairman of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee.
Topic of Keynote:
Developments in Flow Boiling in Micro Tubes and
Channels
Dr. Lixin Cheng
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
ICMFHT Keynote Speaker
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:
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow of Carbon Dioxide:
Fundamentals, Mechanistic Models and Applications
Dr. Guodong Xia
Beijing University of Technology, China
ICMFHT Keynote Speaker
Professor Guodong Xia is a leading professor in Thermal Energy Engineering at Beijing University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. in Thermal Energy Engineering at the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1996. He was a visiting professor in the Institute of Process Engineering of the University of Hanover, Germany in 2000 -2001. His research interests include fundamentals and applications of microscale heat transfer, multuphase flow and heat transfer, waste energy recovery, thermal energy system, heat exchanger design and enhanced heat transfer. His research has been supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Beijing Natural Science Foundation and industry. He is a member of the multiphase flow committee of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics and a member of the multiphase flow committee of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences. Especially, he has published more than 50 papers in the leading international journals such as International Journal of Heat Mass Transfer, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Applied Thermal Engineering and International Journal of Thermal Sciences etc. since 2011.
Topic of Keynote:
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow of Carbon Dioxide:
Fundamentals, Mechanistic Models and Applications
CSP'19 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Johannes Kiefer
University of Bremen, Germany
CSP Keynote Speaker
Johannes Kiefer is Chair Professor and Head of the division of engineering thermodynamics at the University of Bremen, Germany. In addition, he is an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and he holds a guest professorship of the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
He earned his chemical engineering degree and a PhD from the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2010 to 2014 he was a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen before he moved to Bremen. He was visiting researcher at renowned institutions including the division of combustion physics at the University of Lund, Sweden and the Combustion Research Facility of the Sandia National Labs Livermore, US. His research interests are the areas of developing and applying spectroscopic techniques for the characterization of advanced materials and processes including combustion. Johannes has received a number of prizes including the Combustion Institute British Section's Hinshelwood Prize 2012 and the 2010 distinguished paper award on diagnostics at the 33rd International Symposium on Combustion.
Topic of Keynote:
Laser Diagnostics in Combustion: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Qinling Li
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
CSP Keynote Speaker
Qinling Li is a senior lecturer in Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University. After received her PhD in the School of Engineering & Science, University of Southampton, she worked as research associates in Aeronautical and Automatics Engineering Department, Loughborough University (2003~2006), and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge (2006~2009). The main research fields are fundamentals of compressible turbulence, shock-waves boundary layer interaction, jet-in-cross flow & mixing, turbine/combustion chamber cooling effectiveness, fan broadband noise prediction, LES of short take-off and vertical landing aircraft in descending phase (STOVL), high-order numerical methods used in DNS/LES and fluid-structure interaction (FSI). She is also interested in turbomachinery mean-line design, multi-phase flow, energy storage, thermal system, energy saving and recovery.
Topic of Keynote:
High Speed Compressible Turbulence With/without Combustion:
Fundamental Understandings and Challenges