“This is one of major international forums in fluids & thermal engineering in 2017, followed up from last international symposium in Nottingham (26-29 June, 2016) and in Beijing (4-7 May, 2014); and it is the first time jointly organised by University of Nottingham cross campus research group of Fluids & Thermal Engineering”, Professor Yuying Yan, the conference chairman quoted, who is the Head of Research Group at University of Nottingham UK, and Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Thermofluids Engineering and Director of Fluids & Thermal Engineering Research Centre at UNNC.
The conference Opening was hosted by the conference co-chair, Professor Tao Wu, the Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering, UNNC. After the Conference Chairman Prof Yuying Yan delivered the Opening Remark, the Vice Director of Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau Mr Cheng Wang, Vice Provost of University of Nottingham Ningbo China Prof May-Tan Mullins and Vice President of North China Electric Power University Prof Qinliang Tan gave speeches in the Opening Ceremony.
The symposium consists of four plenary sessions and a series of parallel sessions. Eight plenary speakers who all are international leading scientists in heat and mass transfer, and fluids & thermal engineering presented their lectures at the plenary sessions; they are Prof Junho Kim from University of Maryland, Prof Peixue Jiang from Tsinghua University, Prof Yasuyuki Takata from Kyushu University, Prof Zhaoli Guo from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Professor Tassos Karayiannis from UK Heat Transfer Committee and Brunel University, Prof Jinliang Xu from North China Electric Power University, Dr Zuankai Wang from Hong Kong City University and Dr Vivien Lu from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
In the parallel session, academics and students from both domestic and overseas universities got a chance to communicate and exchange their research focus and results, covering topics such as phase change heat transfer, micro-nano scale heat transfer and modelling, flowing and heat transfer enhancement on porous and nature inspired surfaces structures as well as its wide applications in built environment, chemistry, combustion and emission and medical engineering. Most of them are internationally active, well known and typically young and energetic researchers.
After all sessions, a panel discussion in the topic of “How could we face the thermal challenges from increasing demands for the thermal management of energy system and facility” was held in the New International Conference Centre.
As we are facing ever-severe crisis of conventional energy resources and pollutions, increasing demand for new energy resources and applications, and significant challenges for the technologies of efficient cooling, heat and mass transfer enhancement, and effective thermal management, this international symposium has provided a platform to discuss and exchange their state-of the art research topics, strategies, results and outcomes, as well as possible collaborations.
The colleagues from both UoN and UNNC actively exchanged and discussed possible collaborations with major centres of thermos-physics from Tsinghua University, Kyushu University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Hong Kong Polytech and City Universities, as well as others such as Huazhong University & Technology, Zhejiang University, Technique Institute of Physics and Chemistry of CAS, etc.
The Research Group of Fluids & Thermal Engineering at University of Nottingham, UK which has 25 academic members from 4 departments including Architecture & Built Environment, Chemical & Process engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and 16 research fellows and 80-90 PhD students, is a leading centre in fluid mechanics & control, two-phase flow, engines, and heat transfer & thermal management, with international reputations. The Research Centre of Fluids & Thermal Engineering at UNNC, which has 20 academic members including 13 associate members within Faculty of Engineering & Science of UNNC, is new but active in micro & nano flow and modelling, heat transfer & thermal management, energy efficiency in the built environment.