Program

Keynote Lecture

May 22 | 9:10 AM - 09:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

The Temperature Decomposition Method for Simulating Periodic Thermal Flows
Dr. Junfeng Zhang, Laurentian University, Canada

Dr. Junfeng Zhang obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in 2005. He then worked in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, USA) for two years as a NSERC postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Zhang joined the Laurentian Engineering School in 2007 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2016. His research mainly focuses on computational modeling and numerical investigations of microscopic complex flows. Relevant research topics include heat and mass transfer, porous and particulate flows, the lattice Boltzmann method, microscopic blood flows, nanofluids and microfluidics. He is the author/co-author of more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Plenary Lecture

May 22 | 9:55 AM - 10:40 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Scalable Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production Technology Utilizing Waste/Process Heat
Dr. Kamiel Gabriel, Ontario Tech University, Canada

Dr. Gabriel is an elected member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the former A/Deputy Minister at the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. In 1990, Dr. Gabriel attended the prestigious, MIT-founded, International Space University and received a diploma in Space Sciences. For over 14 years, Dr. Gabriel led an international team in the research efforts spearheaded by NASA to design, test and operate a thermal management system for the International Space Station (ISS). In 2004, Dr. Gabriel was invited to lead the development of the research and innovation ecosystem in a newly announced university. He assumed the position of the founding AVP research and graduate programs at Ontario Tech University (formerly known as University of Ontario Institute of Technology) in Ontario, Canada. Under his leadership, Ontario Tech University was ranked as one of the top Canadian higher learning institutions in the categories of innovation and leaders of tomorrow.

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May 22 | 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada and Dr. Kamiel Gabriel, Ontario Tech University, Canada

CFD I

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November 16 | 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada and Dr. Chamil Abeykoon, The University of Manchester, UK

CFD II

Keynote Lecture

May 22 | 1:35 AM - 2:20 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Wael H. Ahmed, University of Guelph, Canada

Cooling of High Power Generation Systems: Matching Demands with Supplies across the Length and Time Scales
Dr. Andrei Fedorov, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keynote Speaker

Andrei G. Fedorov is the Rae S. & Frank H. Neely Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. His current research focuses on thermal management of high performance electronics, and portable/distributed power generation with CO2 capture, MEMS-enabled bioanalytical instrumentation, and electron-beam-mediated direct-write nanomanufacturing.

Dr. Fedorov’s accomplishments have been recognized by peers, including the 2006 Branimir F. von Turkovich Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) “for contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry” and the 2007 Bergles-Rohsenow Award in Heat Transfer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for “sustained contribution to heat, mass, and radiation transfer.” Most recently, Dr. Fedorov has been selected to become a recipient of the 2010 Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, given jointly by Pi Tau Sigma (International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society) and the ASME, in recognition of outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering within ten to twenty years following graduation. Dr. Fedorov authored/co-authored over 200 archival articles published in premier technical journals and refereed conference/symposia proceedings, along with numerous invited and keynote presentations at the major national and international conferences. He is a member of International Advisory Board of the Tokyo Tech’s Global Center of Excellence for Energy Science; serves on Editorial Advisory Boards of the Nanoscale & Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, the International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering, International Journal of Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer, Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, and Transactions of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME); and consults a number of government agencies and major corporations worldwide.

Dr. Fedorov’s research has led to development of new technologies for various applications, resulting in over 40 issued US patents and numerous pending applications. For his inventions of biomedical devices, the World Technology Network (WTN), in cooperation with AAAS Science Magazine, CNN and leading technology companies, selected Dr. Fedorov as a WTN Associate and one of the twenty five “most innovative people and organizations in the science and technology world” nominated for the 2005 World Technology Award in Health and Medicine. Dr. Fedorov was an invited participant in the 2006 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, gathering “the nation’s top 100 engineers between the ages of 30-45 from academy, industry and national labs.” Dr. Fedorov was recognized with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Invention & Contribution Board Award for development of catalytic reactor technologies, as well as multiple inventor recognition awards from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO). With his students he has started two technology companies, in the space of gene/drug delivery microarrays and thermal management for laser medicine, to commercialize his inventions. He serves on the Board of Directors of Horizon Theatre Company (http://www.horizontheatre.com/[1]), a leading contemporary theater in Southeast of the United States.

Keynote Lecture

May 22 | 2:20 PM - 3:05 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Wael H. Ahmed, University of Guelph, Canada

Analysis and Optimization of Wind Farm Performances
Dr. Stefano Leonardi, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Stefano Leonardi is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas. He got a Master degree in Aeronautical Engineering (1999) and a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2002) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. He was Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2010 and Associate professor from 2010 to 2013 at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He joined UTD in 2013. His research interests are in turbulent flows over rough walls, heat transfer, turbo-machinery, super-hydrophobic surfaces, wind turbines, cardiovascular flow, wildfire propagation and oceanography. Leonardi’s research has been funded by National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, National Institute of Health, American Heart Association, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Pratt & Whitney and Argonne National Lab.

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May 22 | 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Wael H. Ahmed, University of Guelph, Canada

Combustion

FFHMT'21 Keynote Lecture

May 23 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Xianshe Feng, University of Waterloo, Canada

Advanced Materials for High Performance Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
Dr. Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. Aimy Bazylak is the Canada Research Chair in Thermofluids for Clean Energy and Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the U of T. Her research is focused on advancing fuel cells, electrolyzers and batteries for clean power and energy storage in the absence of greenhouse gas emissions. She uses modelling and real-time imaging to design new materials for high efficiency and high-performance electrochemical energy conversion, and she has published 117 journal papers in her field. In 2011, she was awarded the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, and she received the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2012. From 2015-2018, she served as the Director of the U of T Institute for Sustainable Energy. In 2015 she was named an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (Germany), and in 2019 she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2020, she was named a Helmholtz International Fellow (Germany), was awarded the U of T McLean Award, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Keynote Lecture

May 23 | 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Xianshe Feng, University of Waterloo, Canada

Single Phase Convective Heat Transfer Passive Enhancement: Techniques, Mechanisms, Performance Comparisons and Applications
Dr. Poh Seng (PS) Lee, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Dr. Poh Seng (PS) Lee is an ASME Fellow and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He currently serves as the Deputy Executive Director of Energy Studies Institute, Director of Singapore Energy Centre, Director of Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) and Programme Director of Cooling Energy Science & Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) national consortium. Prof Lee’s research interests include high performance cooling techniques (in particular single and two-phase microchannel cooling), energy efficient air conditioning and low-grade waste heat recovery. He is the recipient of numerous research and innovation awards including 2013 NUS Faculty of Engineering’s Young Faculty Research Award, 2011 Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, 2011 Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit Top 10 Defense Energy Technology Solutions Award and 2009 Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award (TKKYIA) – Defense Science. Prof Lee is passionate about translating R&D outcomes into innovations & enterprises and have founded CoolestDC Pte Ltd to commercialise his group’s liquid cooling solution for sustainable tropical data centres.

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May 23 | 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Xianshe Feng, University of Waterloo, Canada

Laminar and Turbulent Flows

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May 23 | 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Xianshe Feng, University of Waterloo, Canada

Experimental Fluid Flow

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May 23 | 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Jaap Hoffmann, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Boiling and Condensation

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May 23 | 1:30 AM - 1:50 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Saeed Tiari, Gannon University, USA

Mass Transfer

Keynote Lecture

May 23 | 2:10 PM - 2:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Junfeng Zhang, Laurentian University, Canada

High-Performance Thin Film Composite Membranes for Energy Harvesting using Pressure Retarded Osmosis (PRO)
Dr. Mohtada Sadrzadeh, University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Sadrzadeh researches the fundamental and applied aspects of membrane materials and process development, focusing on their applications in industrial/residential wastewater treatment and energy harvesting from wastewater. The contributions made by Dr. Sadrzadeh during his academic career thus far have led to the development and application of novel composite and nanocomposite membranes for water and gas treatment. He has an h-index of 32 (according to Scopus) with his 120+ refereed publications cited more than 2400 times. He is currently directing Advanced Water Research Lab (AWRL) at the University of Alberta that is equipped with membrane and nanoparticle synthesis and characterization equipment as well as membrane filtration systems. In this unique membrane-specialized facility in western Canada, ten graduate students and four postdoctoral fellows are working under his supervision on cutting-edge membrane technologies. He already graduated 7 PhD and 11 MSc students. Dr. Sadrzadeh is collaborating with nine oil and gas companies through Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), IBM, National Research Council (NRC, Canada), Natural Resource Canada (NRCan, Canada) on the synthesis of high-performance membranes. His research work will be continued on the synthesis of advanced polymeric membrane materials and processes to produce clean water and clean energy from wastewater.

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May 23 | 2:55 PM - 3:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mohtada Sadrzadeh, University of Alberta, Canada

Energy Conversion and Storage II