Evelyn N. Wang

will deliver a keynote lecture entitled: 

Nanoengineered Surfaces: Transport Phenomena and Thermal Management Applications

Barry Azzopardi

will deliver a keynote lecture entitled: 

Using Tomography to Interrogate Gas Liquid Flow

Michele Ciofalo

will deliver a keynote lecture entitled: 

Unsteady Turbulence: Phenomena and Modelling

Evelyn N. Wang

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Evelyn Wang received her BS from MIT in 2000, and her MS and PhD from Stanford University in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2006-2007, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent. Evelyn is an expert in micro- and nano-scale fabrication, devices, and engineering, and single- and two-phase heat and mass transport. She has worked extensively in the area of thermal management, and her previous projects include the development of microchannel and microjet impingement cooling technologies. Her current work involves exploring complex nanostructures for novel and enhanced functionalities for applications in thermal management, water desalination, and solar thermal energy conversion.  She is a recipient of the 2007 DARPA Young Faculty Award.

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Barry Azzopardi

Lady Trent Professor of Chemical Engineering

University of Nottingham, UK

Barry Azzopardi is currently Head of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham. His key areas of research activity are linked to flow patterns in pipes of different orientation, phase separation in vessels and T junctions, drop size measurement in complex systems, demisting, and gas cleaning. Barry is responsible for Multiphase Flow Research, which finds applications in the oil/gas production, oil refining, chemical process and power sectors of industry. He has over 100 technical publications. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

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Michele Ciofalo

Professor of Nuclear Engineering

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Michele Ciofalo holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering (University of Palermo, 1980), a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (City University of London, 1993) and a DSc in Fluid Dynamics (CU London, 1999). His research activity has mainly regarded computational and experimental thermofluid-dynamics, with special reference to turbulence and its modelling. His interests have also included stochastic processes, nuclear reactor safety, nano-scale fluid dynamics and transport, and the applications of ionizing radiations. Michele currently gives lectures in “Single- and Two-Phase Thermal Hydraulics”, “Computational Thermofluid-Dynamics” and “Optical Methods in Thermofluid-Dynamics”. He has been the tutor of about 50 graduation theses, 10 PhD theses and various research fellowships, and is the author or co-author of about 160 technical publications.

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