Amir Faghri

University of Connecticut, USA

Interests: boiling and condensation, energy systems, enhanced heat transfer, fluid mechanics, heat pipes and fuel cells, heat transfer, micro and nano-scale systems, phase change and solidification, transport phenomena

Yuwen Zhang

University of Missouri, USA

Interests: energy storage and conversion, heat and mass transfer, thermal management

Yugang Zhao

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, CHINA

Interests: icing and frosting, microfluidics and heat transfer

Aliakbar Akbarzadeh

RMIT University, AUSTRALIA

Interests: renewable energy systems

 

Cristina H. Amon

University of Toronto, CANADA

Interests: nanoscale thermal transport, thermofluids, clean energy systems, electric vehicle and battery thermal management, regenerative medicine, hemodynamics and transport in biomedical systems

 

Yutaka Asako

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MALAYSIA

Interests: turbulence modeling, turbulent flow, convection, computational fluid dynamics, numerical simulation, numerical modeling, thermal engineering, gas dynamics, heat exchangers

 

Yildiz Bayazitoglu

Rice University, USA

Interests: convective heat transfer with phase change, heat transfer in radiatively participating medium, micro and nano scale heat transfer, development of bioheat equation, advanced thermal manufacturing with emphasis on containerless processing and fuel cell microreformer design and thermal oil well heat transfer analysis

 

Theodore L. Bergman

University of Kansas, USA

Interests: heat transfer, energy, thermal manufacturing

 

Yiding Cao

Florida International University, USA

Interests: aerospace applications, heat transfer/heat pipes, electronics cooling, gas turbine coling, internal combustion engines/ heat engines, energy recovery and renewable energy systems, refrigerators, and solar energy

 

Bingyang Cao

Tsinghua University, CHINA

Interests: microscale and nanoscale flow and heat transfer, thermal functional materials, advanced thermal management technology, heat transfer optimization theory and energy saving technology, simulation and calculation of heat and mass transfer process

 

Gang Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Interests: heat transfer, energy conversion, nanotechnology

 

Li Chen

Xi’an Jiaotong University, CHINA

Interests: heat and mass transfer and reaction in porous media, micro and nano scale heat and mass transfer, porous media two-phase flow

 

Yongping Chen

Southeast University, CHINA

Interests: cooling of electronic components, thermal management/thermal design

 

Zheng Chen

Peking University, CHINA

Interests: flame dynamics theory, fuel basic combustion characteristics, adaptive numerical simulation of multi-scale combustion process and its application, the limit (high temperature and high pressure, supersonic, microgravity, near the combustion limit, etc.) combustion process, flame acceleration and slow combustion to detonation, detonation wave initiation and propagation

 

Jacob N. Chung

University of Florida, USA

Interests: thermodynamics, heat transfer, phase change heat transfer and two-phase flow, energy conversion

 

Vijay K. Dhir

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Interests: two-phase heat transfer, boiling and condensation, thermal and hydrodynamic stability, thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors, microgravity heat transfer, soil remediation

 

Leonid A. Dombrovsky

Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RUSSIA

Interests: visible, infrared, and microwave properties of particles and fibres, radiative heat transfer in scattering media of different nature, radiative properties of porous materials, composite coatings, and thermal insulations, combined heat transfer problems in thermal engineering, biomedicine, and geophysics, stabilization and control of levitating droplet clusters

 

Fei Duan

Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE

Interests: kinetics of phase changes, evaporation cooling and thermal management, energy/exergy analysis on thermocapillary evaporators, thermal analyses of energy systems, development of smart materials

 

Ashley Emery

University of Washington, USA

Interests: architectural heat transfer, finite element methods, numerical analysis, thermal stresses, air conditioning and heating, human comfort, biological heat transfer, fracture, dynamic motion of elastic and plastic shells, radiation gas dynamics, separated and supersonic flow, and free and forced convection

 

Mohammad Faghri

University of Rhode Island, USA

Interests: computational fluid dynamics, heat exchangers, modeling of thermal processes, microfluidics with application to point-of-care-diagnostics, lab-on-paper and lab-on-a-chip, heat and fluid flow in, microscale and nanoscale structures, transport phenomena in fuel cells

 

Manfred Groll

University of Stuttgart, GERMANY

Interests: engineering thermophysics/thermal engineering, energy technology and nuclear reactor safety

 

Z.Y. Guo

Tsinghua University, CHINA

Interests: thermal and mass theory and its application, micro-scale flow and heat transfer, energy efficient utilization

 

Jiangfeng Guo

Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Interests: the application of fundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer to innovative and high-performance heat exchange components, technologies, and systems for energy (heat, power, cooling) recovery, utilization, conversion with emphasis on the efficient and cost-effective utilization of renewable and waste heat, and solar energy

 

Zhixiong Guo

Rutgers University, USA

Interests: heat transfer analyses and enhancement methodologies, thermal management and rapid cooling, ultrashort pulsed laser advanced micro/nano manufacturing, bioNano sensing and ultra-precise measurement techniques, thermal and solar radiation, interfacial and nanoscale heat transfer, energy storage and nanofluid

 

Je-Chin Han

Texas A&M University, USA

Interests: advanced experimental and computational methods in convection heat transfer, heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer in rotating cooling channel flows, film cooling in unsteady high turbulent flows, advanced cooling in gas turbine for aircraft propulsion, advanced cooling in hydrogen turbine for clean power generation, advanced clean energy technology

 

Ya-Ling He

Xi'an Jiaotong University, CHINA

Interests: engineering thermosphysics, energy conservation

 

John R. Howell

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Interests: analysis of radiative energy transfer in complex systems that contain absorbing, emitting, and scattering media

 

Yogesh Jaluria

Rutgers University, USA

Interests: chemical vapor deposition, inverse problems, thermal management of electronics, mini and microchannels, data centers, global climate change, energy systems - wind, solar, thermal systems - simulation, optimization, natural optimization, energy flow in nature

 

Hussam Jouhara

Brunel University London, UK

Interests: heat pipes, heat energy storage, cryogenic heat transfer systems for freezing and storage of bio materials and food, single and two-phase heat transfer (experimental and numerical), waste heat recovery systems - low to high grades (from hot streams or from hot surfaces) including recuperators, steam generators and steam condensers, heat pipe based solar collectors (hybrid, concentrated and flat), development of sizing tools of heat exchangers, energy active shelves for energy efficient supermarket chilled display cabinets

 

Massoud Kaviany

University of Michigan, USA

Interests: efficient and innovative energy transport and conversion (transformation) through atomic tailoring of the principal energy carriers (phonon, electron, fluid particle, and photon)

 

Masahiro Kawaji

The City College of New York, USA

Interests: multiphase flow and phase change heat transfer, nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety analysis, microfluidics, micro-heat pipes, microgravity fluid physics and transport phenomena, thermal energy storage

 

Yasushi Koito

Kumamoto University, JAPAN

Interests: thermal Engineering

 

Stéphane Launay

Université d'Aix-Marseille, FRANCE

 

Larry Li

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG

Interests: complex and disordered systems, fluid mechanics, thermoacoustics

 

Ying Zhen Li

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, SWEDEN

Interests: fire dynamics and fire suppression in tunnels, fire and explosion hazards of alternative fuel vehicles, scale modelling and CFD modelling of fire and explosion flows

 

John Lienhard

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Interests: desalination, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer

 

Xianglei Liu

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, CHINA

Interests: thermal management of aerospace spacecraft and green aviation, new energy utilization and advanced energy storage

 

Haifeng Liu

Tianjin University, CHINA

Interests: advanced combustion theory and new combustion technology, biofuel preparation and evaluation of its characteristics

 

Giulio Lorenzini

University of Parma, ITALY

Interests: thermal engineering, heat transfer, computational fluid mechanics, modeling and simulation, applied and computational mathematics

 

Lin Lu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG

Interests: renewable energy technologies and applications in buildings; fundamentals of fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer to enhance building energy systems; engineered nanomaterial development towards energy smart building envelopes

 

W.J. Minkowycz

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Interests: computational modeling in heat transfer, two-phase swirl flow with heat transfer, two-phase fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in porous media, non-newtonian flow in porous media, turbulence modeling in porous media,and sparrow-Galerkin approach to radiation exchange

 

Masataka Mochizuki

Fujikura Ltd., JAPAN

Interests: heat pipes, two-phase heat transfer, electronics cooling

 

Yin Kwee Ng

Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE

Interests: linear regression, ROC analysis, thermal imaging, computational fluid dynamics, numerical heat transfer, infrared thermography

 

Patrick H. Oosthuizen

Queen’s University, CANADA

Interests: energy and fluid systems

 

G.P. “Bud” Peterson

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Interests: phase-change heat transfer, thermal control of electronic components and spacecraft systems, conduction and thermal contact resistance

 

Joel Plawsky

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Interests: interfacial phenomena, transport processes, thin films, microelectronics, photonics

 

Agus P. Sasmito

McGill University, CANADA

Interests: mine ventilation, heating and cooling, thermal energy storage, geo-energy and energy system, slurry, paste and particulate flow, rock-microwave system, ground freezing, environmental engineering in mines, industrial transport processes, thermal fluid sciences and engineering

 

Bengt Sundén

Lund University, SWEDEN

Interests: compact heat exchangers, enhanced heat transfer, gas turbine heat transfer, combustion-related heat transfer

 

Guihua Tang

Xi'an Jiaotong University, CHINA

Interests: heat design, management, and enhancement, phonons and electrons transport in thermoelectrics, multiphase and phase change, solar energy, microscale and mesoscale fluid flow and heat transfer, chemistry fabrication for aerogels, and energy materials

 

Abderrahim Wakif

Hassan II University, MOROCCO

Interests: spectral Methods, nanofluid flow problems, bioconvection, stability analysis, CFD

 

Dongsheng Wen

Technical University of Munich, GERMANY

Interests: multiphase flow and heat transfer, renewable energy technologies, multiscale modelling and simulation, micro/nanoscale engineering

 

Chao Xu

North China Electric Power University, CHINA

Interests: enhanced heat and mass transfer technology and electronic device cooling technology

 

Jinliang Xu

North China Electric Power University, CHINA

Interests: advanced power cycle and power generation systems, micro and nano scale heat transfer, multiphase flow and heat transfer, optical flow control and solar energy utilization

 

Yimin Xuan

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, CHINA

Interests: micro/nano scale heat transfer, the comprehensive utilization of solar energy, miniature energy system, vehicle thermal management

 

T.S. Zhao

Southern University of Science and Technology, CHINA

Interests: alternate and renewable energy, energy conversion, energy storage, fuel cell technology, heat and mass transport

Mu Du

Shandong University, CHINA

Interests: heat and mass transfer, radiation transfer, radiative cooling, solar energy harvesting, thermal insulation materials, energy saving

 

Wenzhen Fang

Xi'an Jiaotong University, CHINA

Interests: heat and mass transport process coupled with porous media, pore-scale and multi-scale numerical simulations, droplet icing and anti-de-icing mechanism, electronic devices thermal management

 

Wang Han

Beihang University, CHINA

Interests: turbulent combustion, intelligent combustion propulsion

 

Yuchao Hua

Nantes University, FRANCE

Interests: thermal management, heat transfer optimization, thermal energy storage, nanoscale thermal transport

 

Pengfei Ji

Beijing Institute of Technology, CHINA

Interests: laser manufacturing oriented heat transfer and energy conversion

 

Dongxu Ji

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), CHINA

Interests: low grade thermal energy utilization, geothermal energy, AI+thermal energy

 

Qibin Li

Chongqing University, CHINA

Interests: energy storage materials and energy storage systems, thermal cycle systems and thermal management

 

Yatao Ren

Harbin Institute of Technology, CHINA

Interests: micro/nanoscale photothermal transport and conversion, microfluidic optics, bio-heat transfer

 

Yaran Wang

Tianjin University, CHINA

Interests: dynamic modeling, fast numerical simulation and real-time control techniques of the heat transfer and fluid flow processes in HVAC & R systems, mathematical modeling, fast simulation, operational optimization, renewable thermal energy integration and sustainable solutions for smart district heating network

 

Boxiang Wang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA

Interests: micro/nanoscale thermal radiation and metamaterial-based energy devices, radiative transfer in disordered, porous and aperiodic media (especially Anderson localization and chaotic behaviors, nano, topological, quantum and non-Hermitian optics/photonics, scanning near-field optical microscopy

 

Jian Xie

North China Electric Power University, CHINA

Interests: utilization of low-grade energy and multiphase flow heat transfer, phase-change heat transfer on micro/nanostructured functional surfaces, heat and mass transfer enhancement and energy conservation

 

Huachao Yang

Zhejiang University, CHINA

Interests: nanoscale heat and mass transfer, nanoscale energy storage mechanisms, advanced electrode materials and electrolytes, thermal management, supercapacitor, Li+, Na+, and Zn2+ battery

 

Zhilang Zhang

ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Interests: numerical modeling, computational methods, CFD, heat and mass transfer

 

Hu Zhang

Xi'an Jiaotong University, CHINA

Interests: thermal protection and thermophysical property, thermal environment of solid rocket, spectral thermal radiation property and regulation, thermal-fluid-solid coupling simulation

 

Tian Zhao

Beijing University of Technology, CHINA

Interests: modeling, analysis, and optimization of thermal systems and integrated energy systems for energy saving and renewable energy utilization, simulation and enhancement of complex heat transfer processes and their applications such as thermal management of electronic devices

 

Yanguang Zhou

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG

Interests: green energy technologies, algorithm development on nanoscale heat transfer, quantifying heat transport at the interfaces via experiments and simulations