Keynote Lecture

June 18 | 9:10 AM - 9:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Numerical Approaches to Industrial Flow Optimization
Dr. Harvey Thomson, Leeds University, UK

Professor Harvey Thompson (HT) FIMechE is Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. He has published over 100 journal papers in the areas of CFD, Heat Transfer and Multi-disciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) of engineering products and processes and has collaborated with leading companies in the aerospace, automotive and food sectors. His recent research in CFD-enabled flow optimisation has been focussed in electronics and machine tool cooling systems and is finding application in a range of other biological, chemical and nuclear flow processing systems.

Keynote Lecture

June 18 | 9:55 AM - 10:40 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

June 18 | 10:40 AM - 11:25 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

State-Of-The-Art Laser-Diagnostic Measurement Techniques Applied To Multiphase Flows
Dr. Christos Markides, Imperial College London, UK

Christos Markides is Professor of Clean Energy Technologies, Head of the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory, and leads the Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory, which is the largest experimental space of its kind at Imperial College London. He is also, amongst other, Editor-in-Chief of ‘Applied Thermal Engineering’, and a member of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee. He has published >250 journal papers and >300 conference papers on topics relating to his keynote speech. He won multiple awards including IMechE’s ‘Donald J. Groen’ outstanding paper prize in 2016, IChemE’s ‘Global Award for Best Research Project’ in 2018, the Engineers without Borders ‘Chill Challenge’ in 2020, and received Imperial College President’s Award for Research Excellence in 2017.

Session

June 18 | 11:35 AM - 12:50 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng & Dr. Gretar Tryggvason

CFD I

Keynote Lecture

June 18 | 1:10 PM - 1:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Research needs for decarbonised power generation
Dr. Yannis Hardalupas, Imperial College London, UK

Dr. Yannis Hardalupas received Mechanical Engineering degree from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, followed by 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 the 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 chaired the Combustion Physics Group of the Institute of Physics and 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

June 18 | 1:55 PM - 2:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Research challenges for Zero Carbon and Sustainable Fuels: Prospects and the pathway forward
Dr. Mohamed Pourkashanian, The University of Sheffield, UK

Professor M. Pourkashanian: is the Head of Energy Institute at the University of Sheffield. He holds a chair in Energy Engineering, is the General Secretary for the International Flame Research Foundation (IFRF) and is Managing Director of the Translational Energy Research Centre National Facilities. He has completed numerous major research projects on clean energy technology, receiving substantial grants from the EPSRC, EU, and NATO. During his career at Universities of Sheffield and Leeds Professor Pourkashanian has successfully managed over 100 research contracts and grants, with a total value well over £90 million –with active research grants for 2019 is in excess of £19M relating to clean energy projects.

His research is in the field of future clean and sustainable energy technology. He and his students have authored over 415 publications in refereed journals and conferences and have co-authored a few books on coal and biomass combustion. Professor Pourkashanian has graduated over 87 Ph.D. candidates and supervised over 40 postdoctoral scholars. He is currently supervising 28 Ph.D. graduate students and 15 research associate/fellows, Chair of International CCS Test Centre, member of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF): Industrial Decarbonisation Advisory Group, Fellow of the Energy Institute and Chartered Engineer.

Session

June 18 | 2:40 PM - 3:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis & Dr. Yannis Hardalupas

Combustion

Session

June 18 | 3:25 PM - 4:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Christos Markides

Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer

Keynote Lecture

June 19 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Laminar Burning Velocity Measurements Using Constant Volume Vessel Methods
Dr. Richard Stone, University of Oxford, UK

Prof Richard Stone is well known as the author of ‘Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines’ that was first published in 1985 and for which a 5th edition is now needed. His studies of combustion in spark ignition engines have led to the award of the IMechE Crompton Lanchester Medal, the Sugden Award of the British Section of the Combustion Institute on two occasions, and the 2019 SAE Myers Award.

For the last 25 years much work has been with optical access engines, and he has been a PI on 15 EPSRC funded projects: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=34512. His collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) over the last 17 years has been supported directly and with additional support from the EPSRC and InnovateUK. His interests include flow measurement, mixture preparation and particulate matter emissions. His work on laminar burning velocity measurements has been supported by the EPSRC, Shell and BP.

He was editor of the Journal of Power and Energy for 5 years and is currently an Assistant Editor. In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Keynote Lecture

June 19 | 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

Impact of Various Fuels with Different Molecular Structures on Combustion Process and Soot Formation
Dr. Yang Wenming, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Dr. Yang Wenming is currently the Dean’s Chair Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is also the editor-in-chief of Energy Engineering. His research interests include: development of Lower Temperature Combustion (LTC) Technologies, fuel design and its application in internal combustion engines, combustion and emissions control of biomass boilers and coal boilers etc. He has authored/co-authored more than 340 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, of which, more than 270 papers are SCI index, and most of his papers are published in top 10% journals. His papers have been cited by more than 10900 times with a H-index of 56. He is currently the Principal Investigator or Co-PI for 14 competitive research grants funded by National Funding Agencies and Ministry of Education of Singapore, worth more than $30 million US dollars. He has won a series of awards including the Dean’s Chair professor, 4 times of scientific progress award (2nd prize) by the Ministry of Education of China and the Society of Mechanical Engineering of China; two papers was awarded the best paper by Applied Energy (Elsevier) in 2014 and 2016 respectively; He is also the regular reviewer for a lot of peer-reviewed reputable journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Fuel, Combustion and Flame, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences etc.

Keynote Lecture

June 19 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

An Ultrafine Particle Number Measurement System Operating Under Wide Temperature Rang
Dr. Longfei Chen, Beihang University, China

Longfei Chen is Professor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Beihang University, China. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford. He has published more than 60 refereed journal articles. He serves as the secretary general of the Aviation Internal Combustion Engine Branch of Chinese Society for Internal Combustion Engines, and the member of SAE E31 Working Group of ICAO Emission Standards Committee. He has received many awards including the National Excellent Young Scholar (2019), China Internal Combustion Engine Society Outstanding Researcher (2019), the 4th China-France team cooperation innovation award (R&D Award, 2017), Beijing Science and Technology Nova Star Award (2018), and the First Prize Paper awarded by Chinese society for IC engines (2015). His research interest lies in particle emissions, spray and combustion, ice nucleation in atmosphere, more specifically in:

1. developing the measurement system for particle emissions;
2. the heat and mass transfer in multi-phase flow;
3. condensation and icing of atmospheric particles.

Session

June 19| 11:25 AM - 12:30 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Tassos G. Karayiannis, Brunel University London, UK

CFD II

Keynote Lecture

June 19 | 12:50 PM - 1:35 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Lixin Cheng, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Enhancing Heat and Mass Transfer in Adsorption Heat Pumps Using Advanced Metal Organic Framework Materials
Dr. Raya Al-Dadah, University of Birmingham, UK

AL-DADAH, Raya (F) is a reader in sustainable energy technologies in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. She was awarded BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and PhD in Electrohydrodynamic enhancement of boiling heat transfer in 1994. She took lectureship position at UoB in 1995, promoted to senior lecturer in 2014 and to a reader in 2019. She has more than 20 years research experience in the fields of heat transfer, heat powered refrigeration systems and harnessing solar energy. She is a fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration, fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and member of the Higher Education Academy (UK). She has researched and supervised research projects and published over 150 papers in reputable journals and international conferences with H index of 24.

Specific Research interests:

• Heat powered adsorption technology for energy storage, cooling, heating, power generation and water desalination using advanced adsorbent materials namely Metal Organic Framework (MOF.
• Harnessing solar energy: Developing efficient methods of harnessing solar energy based on concentrated Photovoltaic cells (silicon cells as well as multi-junction cells) for both electricity and heat energy production (PVT and CPVT).
• Liquid Air Energy Storage: Developing efficient cold energy recovery systems for cooling, power generation and freeze water desalination.