Program

ICAERA'22 Plenary Lecture

October 28 | 08:45 AM - 09:35 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

3D Interconnected Carbon Nanostructures for Filter Capacitor Applications
Dr. Bingqing Wei, University of Delaware, USA

Dr. Bingqing Wei (B. Q. Wei) is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and serves as Director of the Center for Fuel Cells and Batteries at the University of Delaware, USA. Dr. Wei was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003.

Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist at Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Keynote Lecture

October 28 | 09:35 AM - 10:20 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Tailoring Vapor-Liquid Condensation Phenomena: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Youngsuk Nam, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Dr. Nam is an associate professor in the mechanical engineering department at the KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). Before joining the KAIST, he worked as an associate and assistant professor at the Kyung Hee University after finishing his postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2010, and M.S. and B.S. from the Seoul National University. His research interests include understanding micro/nanoscale heat and mass transport phenomena, developing novel nanosurfaces, and combining them together to introduce advanced solutions in heat transfer enhancement, thermal conversion, and thermal management. He is the recipient of the LG Yonam Foundation international scholar award (2018), Kyung Hee outstanding research award (2017), and KSME Young thermal scientist award (2015).

Keynote Lecture

October 28 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Superhydrophobic Drag Reduction: From Droplet Movement to Boundary Layer Flows
Dr. Chang-Hwan Choi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Dr. Chang-Hwan Choi is a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in US. Dr. Choi received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006, specializing in MEMS/Nanotechnology and minoring in Fluid Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering. He earned his MS in Fluids, Thermal, and Chemical Processes from Brown University in 2002. Before he moved to US, he acquired his BS (1995) and MS (1997) in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea. He was a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Technische Universität Darmstadt for 2016-2017. He worked as a researcher at Korea Aerospace Research Institute for 1997-2000. He is a recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator Program (YIP) award by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR). In 2015, he was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a founder and organizer of the International Conference of Nature-Inspired Surface Engineering (NISE). He has served as an Editorial Board member for several journals including Droplet, International Journal of Wettability Science and Technology, Micromachines, and Scientific Reports. He is also currently serving as an Advisory Board member for the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.

Keynote Lecture

October 28 | 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Stabilized Isogeometric Discretization of the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg Equations: Toward Predictive Cavitation
Dr. Hector Gomez, Purdue University, USA

Dr. Hector Gomez is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Prof. Gomez specializes in computational mechanics with particular emphasis in isogeometric modeling and analysis, interfacial mechanics of multiphysics systems and simulation at the interface of engineering and medicine. Prof. Gomez’s research has been recognized with multiple awards including the Juan C. Simo Award from the Spanish Society of Computational Mechanics, the MIT Innovators Under 35, the Young Investigator Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, the Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics and the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award (presented by the King of Spain to the best young researcher in all fields of science, engineering and humanities). Prof. Gomez has published over 90 journal papers and made over 140 contributions to conferences, including multiple plenary and keynote presentations.

Session

October 28 | 12:30 AM - 01:30 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, University of Ottawa, Canada

CFD I

Keynote Lecture

October 29 | 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Karen Supan, Norwich University, USA

3rd Generation Solar Cells Based On Halide Perovskites
Dr. Makhsud Saidaminov, University of Victoria, Canada

Makhsud Saidaminov is a Canada Research Chair Tier II in Advanced Functional Materials and an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow State University. Makhsud authored 100+ papers and was named 2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.

Session

October 29 | 09:50 AM - 10:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Makhsud Saidaminov, University of Victoria, Canada

CFD II

Session

October 29 | 11:05 AM - 12:25 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Stylianos A. Papazis, DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE, Greece

Energy Storage and Conversion

Session

October 29 | 12:55 PM - 01:30 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Karen Supan, Norwich University, USA

Heat Transfer Enhancement

Keynote Lecture

October 29 | 2:05 PM - 2:50 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Karen Supan, Norwich University, USA

Control of Local Surface Heat Flux using Dielectric Barrier Discharge Actuator
Dr. Subrata Roy, University of Florida, USA

Dr. Subrata Roy is an international leader in the area of multi-scale numerical modeling and design of surface plasma technology. He is the founding director of the Applied Physics Research Group (APRG), and a professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. Roy is also the President of SurfPlasma, a biotechnology company. He is an inducted Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Fellow of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a Nation Appointed Member of the NATO STO on the assessment of plasma-based internal flow control and space propulsion activities. Dr. Roy is an Editorial Board member of Nature Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Physics, and Actuators. He was an Academic Editor of PLOS-One and Journal of Fluids Engineering. He has co-authored over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and bound volumes. He has 36 patented and patent-pending inventions on plasma-related flow control devices and sterilizers.