Keynote Lecture

October 15 | 8:10 AM - 9:10 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Numerical Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Gretar Tryggvason, Johns Hopkins University, USA

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.

Keynote Lecture

October 15 | 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Combustion for Net Zero Carbon Society
Dr. Yannis Hardalupas, Imperial College London, UK

Dr. Yannis Hardalupas received his Mechanical Engineering degree from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, followed by a PhD at Imperial College London. He was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship for experimental research on combustion of liquid and solid fuels before joining the academic staff at Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College, where he was promoted to Professor in 2009. In 2000, he spent a year at Ricardo Consulting Engineers working on computational models for liquid atomization through a Royal Academy of Engineering industrial secondment award.

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. He also researched spray drying and Cleaning-In-Place processes for the chemical and food industry and ‘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 chairs the Combustion Physics Group of the Institute of Physics, 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.

Keynote Lecture

October 15 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Thermal Management and System Optimization of Heat Transfer Performance using Nanotechnology: A Hybrid Thermal and Environmental Application
Dr. Ziad Saghir, Ryerson University, Canada

Prof M. Ziad Saghir is a Professor at Ryerson University and Canada’s most experienced reduced-gravity researcher. He is Canada’s top performer at leveraging departmental and provincial research funds with national (NSERC, CSA) and international funding agencies to pursue Canadian space science objectives onboard the International Space Station (ISS). His talent as a space scientist and university educator is consistently requested by the international space physical science mission community. He leads a group of very strong graduate students and post-docs that come from academia and industry, with interest in and application to deep hydrocarbon reservoirs. His innovation is recognized internationally through consistent invitations from European researchers that identify him as applying the maximum knowledge gained from long-duration gravity-driven phenomena in fluid physics to industrial processes. He has been PI or Co-I of Foton-M2 and M3 SCCO recoverable satellite missions (2007), the ISS SODI-IVIDIL (2009) and DSC (2010) missions, the ISS SODI-DCMIX mission (2011-15), and was the national coordinator of the CSA discipline working group on the role of gravity in metals and alloys. Canada’s contribution to the SODI-DCMIX mission is to clarify the role of gravity on the movement of hydrocarbons across temperature gradients-important knowledge for Canada’s deep oil reservoir sector (Hybernia Oil field and Northern exploration of oil reservoir deposits). Over the past decade, Prof. Saghir has been working in collaboration with TOTAL and researchers in France to apply innovation to benefit Canada’s competitiveness in hydrocarbon extraction from oil reservoirs, a top priority of the Federal Government. He has published over 200 scientific journal paper related to energy. He is currently the chair of the International conference on Thermal Engineering (www.ictea.ca).

Keynote Lecture

October 15 | 10:50 AM - 11:35 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Two-Phase Gas-Liquid Flow in Pipes with Different Orientations
Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar, Oklahoma State University, USA

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 75^thAnniversary 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 6^th Edition of Cengel and Ghajar, Heat and Mass Transfer – Fundamentals and Applications, McGraw-Hill, 2020. The 6^th edition was published in April 2019.

Session

October 15 | 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM | Room 1 | Session Chair: Dr. Ziad Saghir, Ryerson University, Canada

CFD I

Session

October 15 | 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM | Room 2 | Session Chair: Mohamed Mahmoud

Experimental Measurements l

Session

October 15 | 12:55 PM - 2:10 PM | Room 1 | Session Chair: Dr. João Mário Rodrigues Miranda, University of Porto, Portugal

CFD II

Session

October 15 | 12:40 PM - 1:55 PM | Room 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Heat Transfer Enhancement I

Session

October 15 | 2:10 PM - 3:35 PM | Room 1 | Session Chair: Dr. João Mário Rodrigues Miranda, University of Porto, Portugal

Combustion

Session

October 15 | 1:55 PM - 3:25 PM | Room 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Boiling and Condensation Fundamentals and Processes I

Keynote Lecture

October 16 | 8:00 - 8:45 | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Two-Mode Eddy-Viscosity Compressible Turbulence Model for Supercritical Fluid
Dr. BoFeng Bai, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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, and Ph.D in Power Engineering & Engineering Thermophysics at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1993 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, International of Multiphase Flow, Physics of Fluids, et al, given over 20 invited lectures at technical conferences and institutions. 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.

Keynote Lecture

October 16 | 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Mesoscale simulation of complex transport phenomena far from equilibrium
Dr. Sauro Succi, Center for Life Nanosciences at La Sapienza, Italy

Dr. Sauro Succi holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna and a PhD in Plasma Physics from the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He has held a research staff position at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing, Rome. Till 2018 he served as a Director of Research at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the Italian National Research Council in Rome and he is also a Research Associate of the Physics Department of Harvard University and a regular Visiting Professor at the Institute of Applied Computational Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University. Since 2019 he is a senior research executive and principal investigator at the Center for Life Nanosciences of the Italian Institute of Technology at La sapienza, Rome.

He has published extensively on a broad range of topics in computational statistical physics, including thermonuclear plasmas, fluid turbulence and combustion, micro and nano-biofluidics, as well as quantum-relativistic flows.

He is the author of the highly cited monograph ”The lattice Boltzmann equation for fluid dynamics and beyond”, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001) and ”The
Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Complex States of Flowing Matter” (OUP, 2018).

Dr. Succi is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998), a member of the European Physical Society and an elected member of the
Academia Europaea (2015). He has received the Humboldt Prize in physics (2002), the Killam Award of the the University of Calgary (2005) and the Raman Chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2011). In 2017, he has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant on computational design of mesoscale porous materials. He is the recipient of the 2017 APS Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics for seminal contributions to the development and application of the Lattice Boltzmann method and the 2019 Bernie J. Alder CECAM prize for exceptional contributions to the microscopic simulation of matter.

Keynote Lecture

October 16 | 9:35 AM - 10:20 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Effects of Supercritical Airfoil Upper Section Thickness Modification on Airfoil Lift Characteristic
Dr. Vahid Motevalli, Tennessee Technological University, USA

Co-Authors: Mushrif Choudhury, Jie Cui

Vahid Motevalli is the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering since 2013 and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is responsible for the growth of externally funded research, research strategies and infrastructure, oversight of three research centers, and the college graduate program. Dr. Motevalli has more than 30 years of teaching, research and administrative experience in academia, government and industry with diverse research expertise in combustion, fire safety, hybrid-electric vehicles, aviation safety and security and transportation safety. These diverse research activities, thus far, have been supported by more than $17 million in external funding. He has over 100 technical publications in addition to reports, presentations and invited talks and has directed over 35 graduate students. His professional experience outside academia includes working at national and government laboratories (NIST, NRL), government (US Congress as ASME Congressional Fellow) and consulting.

Keynote Lecture

October 16 | 10:20 AM - 11:05 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Challenges and Opportunities of Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) Technologies
Dr. Lin Ma, The University of Sheffield, UK

Professor Ma completed his PhD at the University of Leeds, then took a series of posts at the University before he took up the post of Professor of Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2015 as a member of the University Energy 2050 initiative. He has been working for many years on sustainable energy technologies and in particular on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of various energy processes and a wide range of industrial fluid flow, heat and mass transfer problems. His active research areas include carbon capture from power generation and industrial processes, clean coal/biomass/gas combustion technologies and pollutants formation prediction, fuel related ash deposition, slagging and fouling, future power plant multi-scale and dynamic simulation, etc.

WORKSHOP

October 16 | 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM | Session Chair. Dr. Bofeng Bai, Dr. Jinling Xu and Dr. Lixin Cheng

Advances in Experimental Study and Modeling of CO2 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

We are pleased to announce a dedicated Workshop on Advances in Experimental Study and Modeling of CO2 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer to explore the subject in more detail during ICMFHT’20. Please join our Speakers for their discussion on a variety of topics related advances of research on CO2 fluid flow and heat transfer including experimental research and modelling of evaporation heat transfer, two phase flow and supercritical CO2 inside channels and exchangers.

The workshop will be held by the following honoured speakers:

Dr. Bofeng Bai
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Jinling Xu
School of Energy and Power Engineering
North Cina Electric Power University, China

Dr. Lixin Cheng
Department of Engineering and Mathmatics
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Session

October 16| 12:30 PM - 1:35 PM | Room 1 | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

CFD III