MNF2009 :: 2nd Micro and Nano Flows Conference

Professor Dimitris Drikakis

Professor Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science and Head of the Aerospace Sciences Department at Cranfield University. His research interests include fluid mechanics and heat transfer; computational fluid dynamics; computational nanoscience; turbulence and materials modelling. In 2008 he was awarded the AWE William Penney Fellowship for his contribution to computational fluid dynamics. Prior to his present appointment, he was Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Queen Mary, University of London, while in the past he has also held academic posts at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and University of Marseille. He is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, the Aeronautical Journal, and the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. He has authored the CFD textbook “High-Resolution Methods for Incompressible and Low Speed Flows,” Springer, 2005.

Co-author: Dr Marco Kalweit is a Research Fellow in the Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science Group at Cranfield University. He was the recipient of "Fan Makers Company Prize" for the best PhD thesis in fluid dynamics. His research interests are in the area of computational nanoscience and fluid dynamics.

Professor Satish Kandlikar

Satish Kandlikar is the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1975 and has been a faculty there before coming to RIT in 1980. He has worked extensively in the area of flow boiling heat transfer and CHF phenomena at microscale, single-phase flow in microchannels, high heat flux chip cooling, and water management in PEM fuel cells. He has published over 180 journal and conference papers. He is a Fellow member of ASME and Associate Editor of a number of journals including ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He is Executive Editor of Heat Exchanger Design Handbook published by Begell House. He has received the RIT’s Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award in 1997 and Trustees Outstanding Scholarship Award in 2006. Currently he is working on DOE and GM sponsored projects on Fuel Cell water management under freezing conditions, and an NSF sponsored project on roughness effect on fluid flow and heat transfer at microscale.

Professor X. F. Peng

Dr. X.F. Peng (fully Xiao-Feng Peng), a professor of Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D degree from Tsinghua University 1983 and 1987, respectively. His research activities cover fundamentals of boiling, microscale heat transfer with/without phase change, heat and mass transfer in porous media, cooling technology for thermal management, enhancement of heat transfer and its applications, energy conversion and utilization, micro energy systems. So far, he has over 500 publications and presented papers, several contributions to different English books. He also severed and severs as editor, associate editor and regional editor for many important international journals, and as chairman and committee member or organizing member for many important international conferences.

Professor X.F. Peng
Department of Thermal Engineering
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084, China
Tel/Fax: (8610)6278-9751 (O)
Email: pxf-dte@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Website: phasechange.te.tsinghua.edu.cn

Professor Dimos Poulikakos

Professor Dimos Poulikakos holds the Chair of Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich, where in 1996 he founded the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies and where he has held several positions including that of Vice President of Research in the period 2005-2007.

His research is in the area of interfacial transport phenomena, in particular heat transfer, fluidics and thermodynamics in emerging technologies including the physics at micro- and nanoscales, surface driven energy conversion and medical applications with special emphasis on the human body.

Professor Poulikakos has supervised to completion over 40 Doctoral dissertations to date. He has published over 210 research articles in top peer reviewed journals as well as numerous articles in reviewed proceedings of professional conferences and a graduate level textbook on Conduction Heat Transfer (Prentice Hall, 1994).
Among the awards he has received for his contributions are the White House/NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in 1986, the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award in 1986, and the University of Illinois Scholar Award in 1986 . He is the recipient of the 2000 James Harry Potter Gold Medal and the 2003 Heat Transfer Memorial Award for Science, both from ASME
He received the Dr.h.c of the National Technical University of Athens in 2006. In 2008 he was elected to the Swiss National Academy of Engineering. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal the Experimental Heat Transfer, and a member of the boards of Editors of many other prestigious journals. He is a Fellow of ASME.

Professor Timothy Secomb

Timothy W. Secomb was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge where he obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1979. Since 1981 he has been at the University of Arizona, where he is a Professor of Physiology and Mathematics. In his research, he uses theoretical approaches to study the microcirculation, including blood flow mechanics, oxygen transport, flow regulation and structural adaptation of blood vessels.

Dr Xiaowen Shan

Xiaowen Shan received his PhD in Physics from Dartmouth College in 1991. After that, he went to work in LANL at the CNLS and the T-13 complex system group until 1998. At LANL, Xiaowen's research was mainly on the development of lattice Boltzmann method and direct numerical simulation of turbulence on parallel computers. His work on lattice Boltzmann models for non-ideal gases has been widely used to solve many multiphase flow problems in science and engineering. His work on the theoretical foundation of the lattice Boltzmann method has led to the development of lattice Boltzmann models for compressible flows and high-Knudsen number flows. In 2005, Xiaowen joined Exa Corp., a lattice Boltzmann based CFD software vendor as the Director of Advanced Physics Algorithms.