Selected Papers from the 2^nd International Symposium on Thermal-Fluid Dynamics (ISTFD2021)

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Lixin Cheng

Lixin Cheng has worked at Sheffield Hallam University since 2016. He obtained his Ph.D. in Thermal Energy Engineering at the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1998. He has received several prestigious awards such as Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany in 2006, an ERCOFTAC Visitor Grant in Switzerland in 2010 and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship of the City of Beijing, China in 2015. His research interests are multiphase flow and heat transfer and thermal energy engineering. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences, 9 book chapters and edited 10 books. He has delivered more than 60 keynote and invited lectures worldwide. He has been the chair of the World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (MHMT) since 2017. He is one of the founders and co-chair of the International Symposium of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics (ISTFD) series since 2019. He is associate editor of Heat Transfer Engineering, Heat Transfer Research and Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, and international advisor of Thermal Power Generation (a Chinese journal).

Bofeng Bai

Bofeng Bai is a distinguished professor and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in thermal energy engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1999. He was awarded Distinguished Young Scholars by the National Science Fund of China in 2014. His research interests focus on fundamentals of multiphase flow and heat transfer, multiphase flow in propulsion systems, thermal engineering, petroleum engineering. He has published more than 400 papers in journals and conferences and delivered numerous keynotes and invited lectures worldwide. He is one of the founders and co-chair of International Symposium of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics (ISTFD) series and the chair of the First International Symposium of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, Xi’an, China in 2019 (ISTFD’19). He is associate editor of Measurement, Measurement: Sensors and Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science -Proc. IMechE, Part C.

Afshin J. Ghajar

Afshin J. Ghajar is Regents Professor and John Brammer Endowed Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA and an Honorary Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University. His expertise is in experimental heat transfer/fluid mechanics and development of practical engineering correlations. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. Professor Ghajar has received countless teaching/service awards, such as the 75^th Anniversary Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, the ASME ICNMM Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Donald Q. Kern Award, among others. His research work has resulted in over 250 publications including professional journals, reports, books, peer-reviewed conference papers or symposium proceedings. His research achievements have also been documented by a large number of presentations as well as keynote and invited lectures all over the world. A 2020 study conducted by Ionnidis et al. of Stanford University [Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators (plos.org)], ranked nearly 160,000 scientists of all disciplines based on citations to their work over their career and for the year 2019, Professor Ghajar ranked in the top 1.3% of researchers in Mechanical Engineering and Transports category. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Heat Transfer Engineering Journal and is the Heat Transfer Series Editor for CRC Press (he has edited 13 books to date). He is the coauthor of two popular textbooks, Heat and Mass Transfer – Fundamentals and Applications, 6^th Edition (2020), and Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, 6^th Edition (2022), both published by McGraw-Hill; and the author of Two-Phase Gas-Liquid Flow in Pipes with Different Orientations, Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, published by Springer 2020, and Single- and Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer in Tubes, Mechanical Engineering Series, published by Springer, 2022.