Welcome to IHTS 2014!

Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Royal Society of UK, the first International Heat Transfer Symposium will be held in North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. The symposium aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars from all over the world to exchange and share their experiences and research results about heat transfer and the related applications, and discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted.

Topics

Micro/nano scale heat transfer: Targeted for the performance improvement of high power density energy saving devices/systems such as light-emitting diodes (LED) and other miniaturized systems, subtopics include single-phase, multi-phase (boiling and condensation) heat transfer in micro/nano scale, radiation heat transfer in micro/nano scale, fundamental micro/nano scale heat transfer, novel heat transfer devices, experiments and numerical simulations of micro/nano flow and heat transfer, nature-induced heat transfer phenomena and applications, etc.
Heat transfer in energy and power systems: Targeted for the increment of the energy utilization efficiency, subtopics include flow and heat transfer issues in various heat exchangers, heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer coupling with material corrosion and chemical reactions, heat transfer for low grade energy utilization, heat transfer in chemical and nuclear reactor systems, etc.
Heat transfer in renewable energy utilizations: Targeted for the efficiency, safety and investment cost improvement, subtopics include flow and heat transfer in solar receivers, heat transfer in solar thermal-chemical reactors, various heat exchangers for renewable energy utilizations, coupled radiation and convective heat transfer, experiments and numerical simulations of heat transfer in renewable energy systems, etc.
Any topic related to energy and power engineering is welcome.

Plenary Speakers

Professor Amir Faghri
University of Connecticut, USA
Abstract title:Advances of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power using Heat Pipes

Professor Dongqing Li
University of Waterloo, Canada
Abstract title:Microfluidics and Lab-on-Chip Technology

Professor Jinliang Xu
North China Electric Power University, China
Abstract title:Micro to macroscale phase change heat transfer by the phase separation concept

Professor Khellil Sefiane

University of Edinburgh,UK
Abstract title:Fundamental investigation of droplets evaporation: experiments and theory

Professor Ping Cheng

Shanghai Jiaotong Unversity, China
Abstract title:Recent Theoretical Studies on Phase-Change Heat Transfer

Professor Satish Kandlikar

Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Abstract title:Pool Boiling on Multiscale Surface Features

Professor Xing Zhang
Tsinghua University, China
Abstract title:Size effects on thermophysical properties of nanomaterials

Professor Yuwen Zhang

University of Missouri, USA
Abstract title:Multiscale Thermal Transport in Selective Laser Sintering

Professor Yuying Yan
University of Nottingham, UK
Abstract title:Natural solutions help improve heat transfer