Scientific Programme
Plenary lectures
- Dr. Saša Bajt, DESY, Germany
Managing high heat loads in extreme X-ray optics - Prof. Matteo Bucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
Far away, so close: high resolution investigations of boiling heat transfer, from cryogenic fluids to high-pressure water - Prof. Nirupam Chakraborti, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Data-driven evolutionary deep learning in high temperature basic oxygen steelmaking operation
- Prof. Alain Kassab, University of Central Florida, USA
Multiscale modelling in congenital hearth disease - Prof Wojciech Lipiński, The Cyprus Insitute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Multiphase transport phenomena in high-temperature solar thermal systems
- Prof. Andreas Ludwig, Montan University Leoben, Austria
Multiphase/physic modelling of solidification with industrial relevance
- Prof. Perumal Nithiarasu, Swansea University, UK
Digital twins of thermal systems - Prof. Dimos Poulikakos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
The architecting of nanomaterials for water condensation applications
Keynote lectures
- A BRIEF REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS OF THERMAL DIODE
Baowen Li, Guimei Zhu - MESHFREE RBF-FD METHODS FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PDE PROBLEMS
Elisabeth Larsson, Boštjan Mavrič, Andreas Michael, Fatemeh Pooladi, Igor Tominec - MICROACTUATORS FOR MINIATURE-SCALE THERMAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Manfred Kohl - THERMODYNAMIC EFFECTS IN CAVITATING FLOW
Martin Petkovšek - THERMAL CONTROL DEVICES AND THERMAL CIRCUITS
Katja Klinar, Andrej Kitanovski - MULTI-LEVEL METHOD OF FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS FOR SOLVING POLYHARMONIC PROBLEMS
Andreas Karageorghis, C.S. Chen, Pihua Wen - IN-VITRO ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL SELF-POWERED FONTAN CIRCULATION VIA A POD-TRAINED RBF INTERPOLATION NETWORK
Arka Das, Ray Prather, Purdy Clayton, Keyu Vadaliya, Anthony Damon, Levi Blumer, Martin Cinelli, Eduardo Divo, Alain Kassab, William DeCampli
Special sessions
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Prof. Miguel Muñoz Rojo, Spanish National Research Council, Spain & University of Twente, Netherlands
Prof. Andrej Kitanovski, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Special session on Thermal control devices and thermal circuitsIn recent years, intensive studies on thermal control devices have been conducted for the thermal management of electronics as well as for applications in energy conversion, chemistry, sensors, buildings, and even outer space. Conventional cooling or heating techniques that use traditional thermal resistors and capacitors cannot meet the thermal requirements of advanced systems.
Therefore, new thermal control devices are being investigated to satisfy these requirements. These devices include thermal diodes, thermal switches, thermal regulators, and thermal transistors, all of which manage heat in a manner analogous to how electronic devices and circuits control electricity. To design or apply these novel devices as well as thermal control principles, fluidic, mechanical and solid-state thermal control devices are under consideration and are being developed for various applications for different size scales and temperature ranges. Apart from thermal management, the thermal control devices can form different thermal control circuits, among which it worth to mention also the thermal logic.The conference session will have an ecosystem of interdisciplinary speakers at different levels, from fundamental to system level:• theoretical analysis of materials & devices with both nonlinear and other advanced thermal transport, i.e. nano- & micro-scale heat transport,• experimental demonstration of advanced thermal control devices, and,• novel advanced thermal management approaches,• thermal control circuits. -
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Dr. Dominic Groulx, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr. Monica Delgado, Thermal Engineering and Energy Systems Group, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Thermal Energy Storage -
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Prof. Sara Rainieri, University of Parma, Italy
Prof. Marcelo Colaço, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Morphology Optimized Design for Heat Exchangers -
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Prof. Ching Shyang Chen, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Dr. Boštjan Mavrič, Institute of Metals and Technology, Slovenia
Advances in meshfree methods with applications in thermal sciences -
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Prof. Matteo Bucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Iztok Golobič, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Recent advances in boiling and condensation heat transfer -
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Prof. Ryszard Białecki, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Alain Kassab, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Central Florida, USA
Advanced and multiscale computational methods in bioengineering -
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Dr. Miha Založnik, CNRS - Institut Jean Lamour, France
Prof. Božidar Šarler, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Solidification science and technology
Social Programme
Visit to Postojna Cave