Encit 2012

KEYNOTES

Antonio Barletta, Università di Bologna, ITALY
Keynote Title: "Thermoconvective Instability Induced by Viscous Dissipation"
Presentation Schedule: Wednesday, 12:00-13:00.

Renato Machado Cotta, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Keynote Title: "Unified Integral Transforms: The UNIT Algorithm"
Presentation Schedule: Tuesday, 12:00-13:00.

Atila Pantaleão Silva Freire, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Keynote Title: "The tenets of Turbulence: a mechanistic view"
Presentation Schedule: Tuesday, 11:00-12:00.

Afshin J. Ghajar, Oklahoma State University, USA
Keynote Title: "Gas-Liquid Two Phase Flow Phenomenon in Vertical Upward and Downward Pipe Orientations"
Presentation Schedule: Wednesday, 11:00-12:00.

Mohamed Najib Ouarzazi, Université Lille 1, FRANCE
Keynote Title: "Bifurcations and Heat Transfer in Thermal Convection of a Viscoelastic Fluid Saturating a Porous Medium"
Presentation Schedule: Tuesday, 9:40-10:40.

Dimos Poulikakos, Institute of Energy Technology ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Keynote Title: "From Ice Formation on Surfaces to Liquid Microfluidics in 3D Integrated Electronics Cooling: On the Omnipresence of Heat Transfer in Nature and Technology"
Presentation Schedule: Monday, 9:40-10:40.

John W. Rose, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Keynote Title: "Microchannel Condensation"
Presentation Schedule: Tuesday, 9:40-10:40.

Kambiz Vafai, University of California Riverside, USA
Keynote Title: "Consequences of Non Thermal Equilibrium on Thermal Transport in Porous Media"
Presentation Schedule: Monday, 11:00-12:00.

William Martin Worek, Michigan Technological University, USA
Keynote Title: "Energy Research – Past, Present and Future Opportunities"
Presentation Schedule: Monday, 12:00-13:00.

Li-zhi Zhang, South China University of Technology, CHINA
Keynote Title: "Some Key Issues in Advanced Humidity Control in Hot and Humid Climates"
Presentation Schedule: Wednesday, 12:00-13:00.

 

ROUND TABLE

Title: "University-Government-Enterprise cooperation in Brazil: building on new challenges from past experiences"
Speakers: Álvaro Toubes Prata, Marcelino Guedes F. M. Gomes, Heraldo da Costa Mattos
Presentation Schedule: Monday, 14:20-15:20.

 

INDUSTRY TALKS

Embraer
Speaker: Andre Gasparotti, Title: "Cabin Comfort and aircraft users wellbeing"
Presentation Schedule: Tuesday, 12:00-13:00.

Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil S.A. - INB
Speaker: Samuel Fayad Filho, INB Director Title: "Brazil in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle"
Presentation Schedule: Wednesday, 11:00-12:00.

IBM Research - Brazil
Speaker: Claudius Feger, Title: "Thermal Challenges in Microelectronics"
Presentation Schedule: Tuesday, 11:00-12:00.

 

SHORT COURSE

Manish K. Tiwari, Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, ETH Zurich
Course Title: "Nanoengineered surfaces for superhydrophobicity and anti-icing"