Program

Plenary Lecture

November 25 | 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Perovskite Solar Cell: A Game Changer in Future Solar Power
Dr. Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Nam-Gyu Park is Distinguished professor and SKKU-Fellow in School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He received his B.S. degree in chemical education, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Seoul National University in 1988, 1992 and 1995, respectively. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, from 1997 to 1999 as postdoctoral researchers. He was director of solar cell research center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from 2005 to 2009 and principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from 2000 to 2005 before joining SKKU as a full professor in 2009. He is a fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) since 2017. He has been working on high efficiency mesoscopic nanostructured solar cells since 1997. He is pioneer of solid-state perovskite solar cell, which was first developed in 2012. He was selected as a New Class of Nobel Prize-Worthy Scientist in September 20, 2017 and included in highly cited researchers (HCR, top 1% scientists) in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Clarivate Analytics. He received awards including Scientist Award of the Month (2008), KIST Award of the Year (2009), Dupont Science and Technology Award (2010), SKKU fellowship (three times in 2013, 2018 and 2021), PVSEC Hamakawa Award (2015), Dukmyung KAST Engineering Award (2016), ACS-KCS Excellence Award (2018), Ho-Am Prize (Samsung, 2018) and Rank Prize (UK, 2022). Prof. Park has currently more than 342 refereed publications and more than 70 patents. He received H-index of 102 (google scholar). He is Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Chem. Rev.,

Keynote Lecture

November 25 | 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Development and Application of Mesoscopic CFD Methods for Compressible and Thermal Flows
Dr. Lian-Ping Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Dr. Lian-Ping Wang received a Batchelor’s degree in Mechanics from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 1984, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University, USA in 1990. He was then a Visiting Research Associate at Brown University from 1990 to 1992, after which he was a Research Associate at Pennsylvania State University from 1992 to 1994 and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware from 1994 to 2001. He became an Associate Professor in 2001 and a Professor in 2010 at the University of Delaware. In 2017, he was appointed a Chaired Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, China. Dr. Wang’s areas of expertise include turbulent multiphase flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in particular mesoscopic CFD methods, and modeling of complex flows. He has published around 142 refereed journal papers and has given over 100 invited talks. Dr. Wang became an elected Fellow of American Physical Society in 2011 and an elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2016, and an Invitation Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (9/2016 – 3/2017).

Session

November 25 | 11:10 AM - 12:25 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada & Dr. Gerry Schneider, University of Waterloo, Canada

CFD I

Keynote Lecture

November 25 | 12:55 PM - 01:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Gerry Schneider, University of Waterloo, Canada

Frontiers in Numerical Optimization of Heat Sinks
Dr. Gerardo Maria Mauro, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy

Gerardo Maria Mauro was born in Benevento on May 12, 1988. He is Assistant Professor at “Università degli Studi del Sannio”, Department of Engineering, since December 2018. His main research topics concern: i) numerical simulation and optimization of building energy design or retrofit; ii) large-scale analysis of building stocks via machine/deep learning; iii) development and optimization of strategies for the model predictive control of energy systems; iv) investigation of innovative building components for 3d printing; iv) advanced modeling and optimization of heat transfer systems via numerical methods and machine/deep learning. He is author of more than 50 scientific publications at international level. Five of them have been “highly cited papers” according to ISI Web of Science. According to SCOPUS database (November 2021) he has H-Index equal to 19 and 1296 citations. He is Editorial Board Member of the MDPI Journals “Sustainability”, “Energies” and “Buildings”. He is Reviewer of more than 20 international Journals published by Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, MDPI and Springer. He participates to different national and European research projects.

Session

November 25 | 01:40 PM - 02:25 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Sergei Sazhin, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Newtonian & Non-Newtonian Flow and Heat Transfer

Keynote Lecture

November 26 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Jiheong Kang, KAIST, South Korea

Lattice Boltzmann and Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers and Their Applications
Dr. Chang Shu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr Chang Shu is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He got his BEng and MEng respectively in 1983 and 1986 from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, and his PhD in 1991 from the University of Glasgow, UK. Dr Shu has been working in the computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for more than 35 years. His major interest is to develop efficient numerical methods to solve heat transfer and fluid flow problems, which are governed by a set of partial differential equations. Recently, he developed a series of flux solvers, which are based on the lattice Boltzmann equation and Boltzmann equation. These solvers can be well applied to simulate fluid flows from incompressible regime to hypersonic regime on structured and unstructured meshes. He also made effort to develop some efficient models for simulation of multiphase flows and flows around moving boundaries. So far, he has authored 4 monographs and published more than 350 articles in the international referred journals (SCI indexed). His work has been cited more than 20000 times in Google Scholar.

Keynote Lecture

November 26 | 09:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Jiheong Kang, KAIST, South Korea

Manipulating Solid-Liquid Interfacial Interactions for Designing Surfaces with Special Wettability for Separation Processes
Dr. Gibum Kwon, University of Kansas, USA

Gibum Kwon is an assistant professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2014, where he developed separation methodologies for liquid-liquid mixtures with a research advisor Professor Anish Tuteja. During his Ph.D., he was awarded Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award and Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (2013). From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. At MIT, he conducted research on the wettability switching of photo-responsive semiconducting materials upon light illumination with Professors Gareth H. McKinley and Kripa K. Varanasi. In 2016, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas as an assistant professor. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award (2020), Wesley G. Cramer Award (2020), and Hanwha Young Faculty award (2021). He has co-authored 20 refereed journal articles, as well as 8 patents of which 2 have been licensed.

Session

November 26 | 10:40 AM - 12:15 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Abdullah A. Kendoush, Augusta Technical College, USA & Dr. Desmond Adair, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Renewable & Sustainable Energies

Keynote Lecture

November 26 | 12:45 PM - 01:30 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Gerry Schneider, University of Waterloo, Canada

In-Stream Hydrokinetic Turbines for Sustainable Energy Conversion
Dr. Michele Guala, University of Minnesota, USA

Michele Guala is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo Engineering, graduate faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Associate Director for Research at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota.

Session

November 26 | 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada & Dr. Abdullah A. Kendoush, Augusta Technical College, USA

CFD II