ICMFHT'23 Plenary Lecture

March 27 | 09:15 AM - 10:10 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Sohel Murshed, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Spatiotemporally-Resolved Multi-Field Measurements in Multiphase Flows with Phase Change
Dr. Christos Markides, Imperial College London, UK

Christos Markides is Professor of Clean Energy Technologies, Head of the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory, and leads the Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory, which is the largest experimental space of its kind at Imperial College London. He is also, amongst other, Editor-in-Chief of journal Applied Thermal Engineering, a member of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, and on the Scientific Board of the UK Energy Storage SUPERGEN Hub.

He specialises in applied thermodynamics and transport processes as applied to high-performance devices, technologies and systems for energy recovery, utilization, conversion or storage, and has an ongoing interest in advanced diagnostic techniques for the provision of detailed, spatiotemporally resolved information in turbulent, reacting and multiphase flows. He has published >300 journal papers and >350 conference papers on these topics.

He has won multiple awards, including IChemE’s Global Award for “Best Research Project” for his work on hybrid PV-thermal technologies (2018). He also won IMechE’s Donald Julius Groen outstanding paper prize (2016), the Engineers’ Without Borders “Chill Challenge” (2020), as well as Imperial College London President’s Awards for Teaching (2016) and for Research Excellence (2017).

ENFHT'23 Keynote Lecture

March 27 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Sohel Murshed, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Power to Liquid: Delivering a Sustainable Pathway for Jet Fuel Production and Utilisation
Dr. Mohamed Pourkashanian, The University of Sheffield, UK

Professor Pourkashanian, OBE for services to Net Zero Research and to Innovation (2023) leads on the University Energy flagship Institute and Energy-2050 initiative. He holds a chair in Energy Engineering, is the General Secretary for the International Flame Research Foundation and is Managing Director of the Translational Energy Research Centre National Facilities and Sustainable Aviation Fuels Innovation Centre. He has completed numerous major research projects on clean energy technology, alternative aviation fuels production, characterisation and utilisation, receiving substantial grants from the EPSRC, EU, NATO and industry. He and his students have authored over 498 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings and have co-authored a several books. Professor Pourkashanian has graduated over 87 Ph.D. candidates and supervised over 40 postdoctoral scholars and research associates. He is currently Chair of International Test Centre Network (https://itcn[1]global.org/), member of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF): Industrial Decarbonisation Advisory Group, Member of Jet Zero Council SAF Delivery Group, Fellow of the Energy Institute and Chartered Engineer.

ENFHT'23 Keynote Virtual Lecture

March 27 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Marco A. Marcos, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Interfacial Heat Transport in Semiconducting Heterostructures
Dr. Zhixiong (James) Guo, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Dr. Zhixiong “James” Guo is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He received his B.S., M.S., and Doctorate, all in Engineering Physics, from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1989, 1991, and 1995, respectively. Then he left China and worked as a Research Fellow in KAIST, South Korea, and a Research Associate in Tohoku University, Japan. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a research staff member in NYU-Tandon School of Engineering, where he completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the same time period. He joined the faculty at Rutgers in July 2001. He is a recognized expert in heat transfer, with notable expertise in radiation transport, heat transfer enhancement, and nanoscale heat transfer. His discovery and solution for conserving scattered energy and scattering angle in radiation transfer modeling is of significant contribution to the advancement of radiative transfer computation. He is a pioneer in ultrafast laser radiation transport modeling and applications. He explored plasma-mediated ablation and developed it successfully to tissue grafting and decontamination. He conducted leading research on near-field radiation, addressing emerging technological applications such as MEMS/NEMS sensors, ultrafine measurement, and biological sensing at the molecular level. Nowadays he explores innovative utilization of renewable solar energy and investigates fundamentals in interfacial heat transfer and boiling mechanisms at the molecular level. He has supervised 17 PhD and 20 Master students and mentored 14 postdoctoral/visiting scholars. He received research funds from the NSF, NASA/NJSGC, USDA, ASEE/DOD, MTF, NIH, NJ Nanotechnology Consortium, Charles and Johanna Busch Memorial Funds, NNSFC, JSPS, and other sources. He also received a teaching award from Rutgers Vice President Office for Undergraduate Education in 2002. He is the author or co-author of over 260 articles/editorials in archival journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer and a Managing Editor for journal Heat Transfer Research, and an editorial board member for Applied Thermal Engineering and Frontiers in Energy. Dr. Guo is an elected Fellow of ASME and ASTFE. He was the K-18 technical committee Chair of Heat Transfer Division in ASME during 2009-2015. He was the Technical Program Chair for the 6th International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer (CHT-15). He was a conference Co-Chair for 2011, 2013, and 2015 International Workshops on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control. Among many distinctions, he was awarded a JSPS Invitation Fellowship, a K.C. Wong Education Foundation Fellowship, and Rutgers the Board of Trustee’s Award for Excellence in Research, the university’s highest honor for outstanding research contributions to a discipline or to society.

Symposium

March 27 | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Sohel Murshed, University of Lisbon, Portugal

CFD I

Session

March 27 | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Experimental Measurements

ICMFHT'23 Keynote Lecture

March 27 | 01:20 PM - 02:05 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Mass Transfer from a Bubble in a Vertical Pipe
Dr. Akio Tomiyama, Kobe University, Japan

Akio Tomiyama is Professor at Kobe University since 2003. He obtained his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was formerly a Researcher at the Energy Research Lab. at Hitachi Ltd. in 1984-1988, a research Associate (1988-1991) and associate professor (1991-2002) and Dean of Faculty of Engineering (2015-2019) at Kobe University. His main research areas are multi-scale CFD for multiphase flows, experiments and modeling of bubble dynamics and gas-liquid two-phase flows. He has received several best paper awards and outstanding achievement awards from Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Japanese Society of Multiphase Flows and Japan Atomic Energy Society. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of Multiphase Science and Technology and a member of editorial advisory board of Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, and had been an associate editor of Int. J. Multiphase Flow for 16 years. He has also served as the President of Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow and a Governing Board member of Int. Conf. Multiphase Flow.

Keynote Lecture

March 27 | 01:20 PM - 02:05 PM| Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

A Comprehensive Review of Pseudo-Slug Flow
Dr. Ali Kosar, Sabanci University, Turkey

Ali Koşar is a Distinguished Research Professor at Sabanci University. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is focusing on the design and development of new generation micro heat sinks with functional surfaces and microfluidic devices including cavitation on chip devices. His research interests constitute a spectrum covering heat and fluid flow in micro/nano scale, condensation, boiling heat transfer, microfluidic systems, and cavitation. He co-authored over 150 research articles in top journals and 80 conference papers in prestigious international conferences. He has also a co-inventor on 7 granted patents and 7 pending patent applications. He received numerous national and international honors, including the µFIP Prominent Researcher Award” in the 2021 micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference, METU (Middle East Technical University) Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Foundation Science Award (2021). He is currently leading a large research group consisting of members from various disciplines, graduate students and engineers and to bridge different disciplines (Energy, Nanotechnology, Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Mechanical Engineering). He has been successful to secure funding for his research activities from a wide variety of national and international resources. He also serves as a reviewer in many prestigious journals and is a Subject Editor in the Applied Thermal Engineering journal. He is the Co-director of Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Nano diagnostics (EFSUN) and a Distinguished Researcher of Sabanci University Nanotechnology and Application Center. He was recently elected as a Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).

Session

March 27 | 02:05 PM - 03:50 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

CFD II

Session

March 27 | 02:05 PM - 03:50 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Guido Saccone, Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), Italy & Dr. Osama Ibrahim, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Heat Transfer Enhancement I

Session

March 27 | 04:05 PM - 05:35 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Boiling and Condensation Fundamentals and Processes

ICMFHT'23 Plenary Lecture

March 28 | 09:30 AM - 10:25 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Sohel Murshed, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Multiscale Enhancement Techniques in Pool Boiling
Dr. Satish Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Satish Kandlikar is working in diverse areas including pool and flow boiling, water management in fuel cells and breast cancer detection. Innovation and creativity are the hallmarks of his team which has presented novel ways to improve performance in these fields. He has published over 400 research papers and graduated 15 PhD students and over 100 MS student in a career spanning over 40 years. The talk will is aimed at developing a new insight among the students and researchers to develop a highly productive innovative work environment. He has received numerous awards including the coveted ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award.

ENFHT'23 Plenary Lecture

March 28 | 10:25 AM - 11:20 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Sohel Murshed, University of Lisbon, Portugal

The Role of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Thermal Energy Storage for Heating, Cooling and Mobility Decarbonisation
Dr. Yulong Ding, University of Birmingham, UK

Professor Ding is founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering and founding Director of University of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. His research has been on energy materials and processes. He has published 550+ technical papers with 450+ in peer-reviewed journals (GS H-Index ~80) and filed 100+ patents. He currently serves on Molten Salts Advisory Group of UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Royal Society Net Zero Panel and IChemE Publication Medal Assessment Panel, and recently led a Royal Society briefing note on heating and cooling in Climate Change: Science and Solutions. Professor Ding invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of technology developments (commercialised by Highview Power). He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of >300MW / >1.5GWh so far (Jinhe Energy). His work on passively cooled container technology has been on large scale commercial demonstration for cold chain applications (CRRC). His work has been recognised by the election to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020); IChemE Clean Energy Medal (2021); IChemE Global Awards in three categories of Energy, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement (2019); Distinguished Energy Storage Individual Award (Beijing International Energy Storage and Expo, 2018); and Energy & Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award (‘The Engineer’, 2011). He currently serves as an associate editor of Energy Storage and Saving (Elsevier) and Discovery Energy (SpringerNature), and serves on editorial boards Journals of Energy Storage (Wiley), Thermal Science (Springer), and Particuology (Elsevier).

Session

March 28| 11:20 AM - 12:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Marco A. Marcos, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Universidade de Vigo, Spain & Dr. Jorge Pinho, Von Karman Institute for fluid dynamics, Belgium

Posters Session

ICMFHT'23 Keynote Lecture

March 28 | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Sohel Murshed, University of Lisbon, Portugal

On the Shuttling Transverse Combustion (STC)
Dr. Boo Cheong Khoo, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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 on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology, Ocean Systems Engineering (IJOSE), International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (IJIUS), The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal (OME) and The Open Ocean Engineering Journal.

ENFHT'23 Keynote Virtual Lecture

March 28 | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Wagd Ajeeb, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Applying Surface Engineering to Thermal Fluid Research and Applications
Dr. Sunny Ri Li, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Sunny Ri Li is currently a professor at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan campus. He is the director of UBC Thermal Management and Multiphase Flows Lab, the Chair of CSME Heat Transfer Committee, and the Canadian Delegate on The Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. His research around the fluid dynamics of multiphase flows and heat transfer involved in high-heat-flux cooling technologies and applications, with particular focus on the cooling and thermal management for microelectronics and power electronics. Before joining UBC, he was a research scientist in the Electronics Cooling Lab at the Global Research Center of General Electric, Schenectady, New York. He received his MASc and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Toronto in 2004 and 2008, respectively.

ENFHT'23 Keynote Lecture

March 28 | 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis Brunel University London, UK

Advances in Using Nature Inspired Solutions to Enhance Heat Transfer and Thermal Energy Storage
Dr. Yuying Yan, University of Nottingham, UK

Yuying Yan (BSc, January 1982 from Jilin University of Technology, MSc, May 1986 in Thermal Science Engineering at Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering) obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at City, University of London in 1996. After taking research & academic positions at University of Surrey and Nottingham Trent University, respectively, he joined University of Nottingham in 2004, and was promoted to full Professor in 2011 as Chair in Thermal Fluids Engineering. His research covers widely ranged areas of thermofluids including heat transfer enhancement, applied thermodynamics, phase change, nanofluids and nature inspired solutions for energy efficiency and thermal management. He is member/director of UK national heat transfer committee, member of UK EPSRC peer review college, fellow of International Society of Bionic Engineering (ICBE). He was head of fluids & thermal engineering and faculty director of global engagement at UoN, deputy general secretary of ICBE, panel member of European Research Council's advanced research grant, etc. He has chaired or co-chaired over 10 international conferences/events. He has supervised more than 40 PhD students so far, authored or co-authored over 450 papers including about 300 journal papers. He serves as Senior Editor for Elsevier e-Prime: Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, Associate Editor for Elsevier "Case Studies in Thermal Engineering", also holds editorial board membership at International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Scientific Reports, Journal of Bionic Engineering, Thermal Science & Engineering Progress, Energy Storage & Saving, and Automotive Innovation, etc.

ICMFHT'23 Keynote Lecture

March 28 | 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Marco A. Marcos, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Universidade de Vigo, Spain

The Percolative Scale-Free Nature of the Boiling Crisis
Dr. Matteo Bucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Dr. Matteo Bucci is Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. He has joined the MIT faculty in 2016, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in nuclear reactor engineering and design, and two-phase heat transfer. His thermal-hydraulics group at MIT focuses on two major research axes related to nuclear reactor safety and design: (1) New understanding of heat transfer mechanisms in nuclear reactors, (2) Engineered surfaces and coatings to enhance two-phase heat transfer. His group also develops and uses advanced diagnostics, such as high-speed infrared thermometry, and post-processing algorithms to perform unique heat transfer experiments. Matteo has published over 40 articles in the areas of two-phase flow and heat transfer, and surface engineering technology. For his research work and his teaching, he won several awards, among which the MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching (2020), ANS/PAI Outstanding Faculty Award (2018), the UIT-Fluent Award (2006), the European Nuclear Education Network Award (2010), and the 2012 ANS Thermal-Hydraulics Division Best Paper Award (2012). In 2022, Matteo received the inaugural DOE Early Career Award for Nuclear Energy. Matteo is Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering and a consultant for the nuclear industry.