Proceedings of the 10^th World Congress
on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (MHMT 2025)

Dr. Srinivas Garimella
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ENFHT'25 Plenary Speaker

Dr. Srinivas Garimella is the Hightower Chair in Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held prior positions as Research Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute, Senior Engineer at General Motors Corp., and Associate Professor at Western Michigan University and Iowa State University. He conducts research in the areas of microscale phase change heat and mass transfer, vapor compression and sorption heat pumps, and heat recovery, upgrade and storage. He is a Fellow of the ASME and of ASHRAE. He is Editor of the Int. J. Air-conditioning and Refrigeration, and past Associate Editor of the ASME J. Heat Transfer and ASME J Energy Resources Technology, and of the ASHRAE SBTE Journal. He is Past Chair of the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME and was on the ASHRAE Research Administration Committee. He held the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professorship of Mechanical Engineering at ISU. He has mentored over 75 postdoctoral researchers, research engineers and students pursuing their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, with his research resulting in over 375 archival journal and conference publications, a textbook on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels (2nd Ed., Elsevier 2014), and books on Condensation Heat Transfer (World Scientific Publishing, 2015) and Adsorption Heat Pumps (Springer Nature, 2021.) He has been awarded seventeen patents. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1999), the ASHRAE New Investigator Award (1998), the SAE Ralph E. Teetor Educational Award for Engineering Educators (1998), and was the Iowa State University Miller Faculty Fellow (1999-2000) and Woodruff Faculty Fellow (2003-2008) at Georgia Tech. He received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2024), the Georg Alefeld Memorial Award for lifelong contributions to Sorption Heat Pumps (2024), the ASME Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Two-Phase Flow and Condensation in Microchannels (2012) and the Prominent Researcher Award at the Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2022 for sustained and outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of phase change heat transfer at mini‐ and micro‐scales and coupled heat and mass transfer in binary fluids. He also received the Thomas French Distinguished Educator Achievement Award (2008) from The Ohio State University, the Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award (2012), and the Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award (2023) at Georgia Tech.

Topic of Plenary:
Condensation at Small Scales: Measuring, Modeling, and Applications

Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar
Oklahoma State University, USA
ICMFHT'25 Plenary Speaker

Afshin J. Ghajar is Emeritus Regents Professor 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 B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University. His expertise is in experimental heat transfer/fluid mechanics and development of practical engineering correlations. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. Professor Ghajar has received countless teaching/service awards, such as the 75th Anniversary Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, the ASME ICNMM Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Donald Q. Kern Award, among others. His research work has resulted in over 250 publications including professional journals, reports, books, peer-reviewed conference papers or symposium proceedings. His research achievements have also been documented by a large number of presentations as well as keynote and invited lectures all over the world. A 2020 study conducted by Ionnidis et al. of Stanford University [Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators (plos.org)], ranked nearly 160,000 scientists of all disciplines based on citations to their work over their career and for the year 2019, Professor Ghajar ranked in the top 1.3% of researchers in Mechanical Engineering and Transports category. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Heat Transfer Engineering Journal and is the Heat Transfer Series Editor for CRC Press (he has edited 13 books to date). He is the co-author of two popular textbooks, Heat and Mass Transfer – Fundamentals and Applications, 6th Edition (2020), and Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, 6th Edition (2022), both published by McGraw-Hill; and the author of Two-Phase Gas-Liquid Flow in Pipes with Different Orientations, Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, published by Springer 2020, and Single- and Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer in Tubes, Mechanical Engineering Series, published by Springer, 2022.

Topic of Plenary:
Two-Phase Flow Void Fraction, Pressure Drop, and Heat Transfer in Pipes with Different Orientations

Dr. Yannis Hardalupas
Imperial College London, UK
CSP'25 Plenary Speaker

He is Professor of Multiphase Flows at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. His research covers combustion, heat and mass transfer, liquid atomisation and sprays and the development and application of novel optical and laser diagnostics. The latter led to patents for instruments on powder sizing, planar droplet sizing, nanoparticle sizing and novel imaging devices. His research contributed to gas- and liquid- fuelled land-based gas turbines, coal burners, aeroengines, gasoline and Diesel engines and liquid propellant rocket engines. Recent emphasis on combustion research is related to sustainable and zero carbon fuels. He also researched dispersion of droplets and particles in spray drying, manufacturing and Cleaning-In-Place processes for the chemical and food industry, and dispersion of aerosols for infection control. Finally, he has studied flow and heat transfer processes in natural convection, forced convection and boiling, including ‘nanofluids’ as improved coolants for fusion and fission reactors. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Associate Fellow and member of the technical committee of Propellants and Combustion of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He chaired the Combustion Physics Group of the Institute of Physics and is an Editor of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science and serves at the advisory and editorial boards of Experiments in Fluids and Int. J. of Spray and Combustion Dynamics.

Topic of Plenary:
Research Challenges in Combustion and Production of Sustainable Fuels for ‘Green’ Energy Futures

Dr. Savvas Tassou
Brunel University London, UK
ENFHT'25 Plenary Speaker

Savvas Tassou is Professor of Energy Engineering at Brunel University London and Director of The Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains. Over the years he held several senior positions at Brunel University London including Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Head of School of Engineering and Design and Director of The Institute of Energy Futures. Research expertise covers the areas of heat pumps, refrigeration and air conditioning, energy demand reduction in the built environment, food systems and industry, heat and mass transfer and heat exchangers and heat to power conversion technologies.

Topic of Keynote:
Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles and Technologies for High Temperature Waste Heat to Power Conversion

Dr. Jules Thibault
University of Ottawa, Canada
ENFHT'25 Plenary Speaker

Jules Thibault obtained his bachelor of chemical engineering at the Royal Military College in 1973. He later obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University in 1978 where he worked on the topic of heat transfer in nuclear reactors. Following his PhD Professor Thibault spent four years in the Canadian Armed Forces, including two six-month postings to Egypt and Cyprus with the United Nations. From 1981 to 1984, he taught in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Royal military College, after which time he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering of Laval University. In 2000, he moved to the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are in biochemical engineering, and process simulation, control and optimization.

Topic of Keynote:
Estimation and Analysis of Transport Properties in Mixed-Matrix Membranes for Enhanced Gas Separation: An Integrated Experimental and Computational Study

Dr. Gretar Tryggvason
Johns Hopkins University, USA
ICMFHT'25 Plenary Speaker

Gretar Tryggvason is the Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD from Brown University in 1985 and was on the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor until 2000, when he moved to Worcester Polytechnic Institute as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Between 2010 and 2017 he was the Viola D. Hank professor at the University of Notre Dame and the chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Professor Tryggvason is well known for his contributions to computational fluid dynamics; particularly the development of methods for computations of multiphase flows and for pioneering direct numerical simulations of such flows. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Physics 2002-2015, is a fellow of APS, ASME and AAAS, and the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 ASME Fluids Engineering Award and the 2019 ASTFE Award.

Topic of Keynote:
Simulations and Modeling of Multiphase Flows

Dr. Bofeng Bai
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
ICMFHT'25 Keynote Speaker

Bofeng Bai received the B.Eng. degree in fluid machinery from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, in 1993, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Power Engineering & Engineering Thermophysics from XJTU in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He started his academic career as a Lecturer at XJTU in 1999, as Professor since 2007, and as Leading Professor since 2015. He serves as the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering and leads research group of Advanced Energy Power Multiphase Flow (AEPMF). He has won China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists. He is currently the secretary general of the multiphase flow branch of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, the deputy chairman of the heat exchanger safety and energy efficiency committee, and the deputy secretary general of the hydrogen energy equipment committee of the China Special Technology Promotion Association. Prof. Bai has been serving as the Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (Proc. IMech E Part C) since 2019, Journal of Measurement since 2020, Advisory Board member of Physics of Fluids from 2023-2025.

His primary research interests focus on multiphase flow fundamentals and applications in energy engineering, power engineering, thermal engineering and petroleum engineering. He has authored and co-authored more than 270 papers published in international journals and more than 200 papers in conference proceedings. He chaired and co-chaired 8 international academic conferences or symposiums and delivered 30 keynote speeches. His research results have won 1 second prize of national technological invention awards and 4 first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.

Topic of Keynote:
Multiphase Reaction Flow and Heat Transfer Of Coal Gasification in Supercritical Water For Hydrogen Production: From Pore To Agglomeration Perspective

Dr. Francesco Coletti
Hexxcell Ltd., Uk
ICMFHT'25 Keynote Speaker

Francesco is the CEO of Hexxcell Ltd., a London-based software and consulting company focussed on the development of Hybrid-AI Digital Twins for heat transfer systems. Francesco has a track-record of developing industrial digital solutions from ideation, R&D all the way to deployment in the field, with particular focus on combining physics-based models with Artificial Intelligence for monitoring, optimization and predictive maintenance of process and energy systems. Prior to Hexxcell, Francesco worked as a Development Specialist at the Linde Technology Center in Buffalo, NY. He is also a part-time Associate Professor at Brunel University London where he contributed to the launch of a new Chemical Engineering Department and was a visiting academic at Imperial College London (2016-2017). Francesco has been elected Fellow of the Energy Institute in 2023. He is one of two elected representatives for the UK serving on the Scientific Committee of the International Heat Transfer Conference. He was elected to the UK National Heat Transfer Committee in 2014 and subsequently appointed as its Secretary in 2015. Since 2019 he is a Director of AIChE Fuels&Petrochemical Division and is currently serving as the Chair of the Division. He is involved with The organization of several international conferences, including the Topical Series on Heat Exchangers held every two years at the AIChE Spring Meeting which he initiated and chairs. He is the Executive Editor of Heat Exchanger Design Handbook and the co-editor of the first monograph dedicated to Crude Oil Fouling. He has published over 80 scientific contributions including journal articles and peer-reviewed conference proceeding and holds two patents. Francesco holds a Laurea degree in Chemical Engineering from Padova University, Italy; an MSc in Process Systems Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK

Topic of Keynote:
Exploring Applications of Machine Learning For Data Regression in Heat Transfer

Dr. Yunting Ge
London South Bank University, UK
ENFHT'25 Keynote Speaker

Prof. Yunting Ge is currently a Professor of Building Services Engineering at the School of The Built Environment and Architecture and London South Bank University (LSBU) in the UK. He is also the Director of the Centre for Civil and Building Services Engineering (CCiBSE) in the school. He gained his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University (BSc, MSc) and Tsinghua University (PhD) in the field of Thermofluids, Energy, Hydrogen, and Built Environment.
Prof. Ge has accumulated over 25 years of research and development experience in Built Environments, Energy Conversation Technology, Hydrogen, and Thermofluids. He has unique skills in modelling development for buildings, different energy systems, and components. He has also developed a CO2 transcritical compressor model which has been used by a famous commercial software ‘Energy Plus’.
Many of his heat exchanger design software has been utilised by companies across the UK. In addition, He has developed a supermarket energy control system model which has been widely recognised. He is currently leading some research projects funded by EPSRC & Innovate UK. As a principal investigator (PI), he has obtained more than £5.16m of research funding to support his various projects. So far, He has supervised more than 12 Ph.D. students and several post-doctoral research fellows. Furthermore, he has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference papers. Externally, he is the President of IIR Commission E1 (International Institute of Refrigeration). In addition, he is currently the associated editor of the Journal of Energy Report. Furthermore, he has been also a committee member of several international conferences

Topic of Keynote:
High-Temperature Chemical Heat Pump Systems with Alloy Selections, Characterisations, Simulation and Experiment Development