Encyclopedia of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Flow II

Mirco Magnini received a BEng degree in mechanical engineering in 2005 from the Alma Mater Studiorum - Universitá di Bologna, Italy, a MSc degree in mechanical engineering in 2007 from the same university, and a PhD degree in Energy Engineering in 2012 from the Department of Energy Engineering (formerly DIENCA, now DIN) of the University of Bologna, Italy. He is currently a post-doc research assistant at the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research focuses on numerical simulations of two-phase flows with phase change within small and microchannels.

Gustavo R Anjos received a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2012 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and worked as post-doc fellow of the Nuclear Science & Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on numerical simulations of two-phase flows with phase change for single and multiple bubbles. He is currently adjunct professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Norberto Mangiavacchi received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 1994. He is currently Associated Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He directs the GESAR laboratory, an interdisciplinary group that is concerned on numerical and experimental modeling of complex flow phenomena, applied to environmental problems. Interest includes numerical simulation of multiphase flows.

José Pontes holds a PhD in Physics(1994), from the Free University of Brussels - ULB/Belgium. He worked as a Project Engineer in a leading engineering company in Brazil and was associate professor at the Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ/Brazil, form where he retired in 2014. He is currently a visiting researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro - UERJ/Brazil. His interests are in hydrodynamic stability, computational fluid dynamics and pattern formation in extended systems. He is Author of two books accepted for publication by the Brazilian Society of Mathematics - SBM on Transport Phenomena and applications.

Dr Mukherjee is currently a faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Energy Research Center at CSUN. Dr Mukherjee's fundamental research focuses on numerical and experimental study of liquid-vapor interface with interfacial heat and mass transfer with applications in boiling, condensation, combustion and multiphase flows. Dr Mukherjee did his undergraduate engineering studies from Jadavpur University in India, completed MME from Villanova University and received MS and PhD degrees from UCLA.

Professor Vijay K Dhir distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named Dean of UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in March 2003. He received his PhD from the University of Kentucky. Dhir joined the faculty at UCLA in 1974. He also leads the Boiling Heat Transfer Lab at UCLA, which has conducted pioneering work in fundamental and applied sciences involving boiling, an efficient process of heat removal. Currently the lab is involved in the study of flow boiling, micro-gravity boiling, and nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics. Since 1999 a team of researchers led by Dhir has been taking part in a NASA research program to examine the effects of microgravity on boiling. The activity culminated with an experiment aboard the International Space Station. Forty PhD students and forty MS students have graduated under Dhir's supervision. He is author or co-author of over 300 papers published in archival journals and proceedings of conferences.

Ricardo J Da Silva Lima received his PhD in Energy at the EPFL in Lausanne in 2011, where he investigated two-phase flow in U-bends (flow visualization and pressure drops). He moved to the Fribourg's University of Applied Sciences and then in 2013 he was appointed lecturer at the Geneva's University of Applied Sciences for energy courses and post-doctoral researcher at LTCM (EPFL) where currently he conducts two-phase flows research.. He is also the developer of a widely used two-phase flow pattern, heat transfer and pressure drop calculation tool, the "Excel Data Book III Calculator". In 2013 Ricardo Lima has been distinguished by ASHRAE with the Homer Addams Award.

John R Thome is Professor of Heat and Mass Transfer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland since 1998, where he directs the two-phase flow and heat transfer research laboratory (LTCM) with 20 some post-docs and PhD students, see http://ltcm.epfl.ch/. His work focuses on visual investigations of the fundamental phenomena of microchannel two-phase flows (in channels as small as 85 microns), new experimental and image processing techniques for microscale two-phase flows, mechanistic two-phase flow pattern based heat transfer and pressure drop models for microscale evaporating and condensing flows, computerized flow control of two-phase microcooling systems, the development of multi-microchannel evaporators for electronics cooling with up to 1200 parallel microchannels, and the numerical modeling of two-phase phenomena. He received his PhD at Oxford University, England in 1978.

Rémi Revellin is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA Lyon) in France since 2007 and is currently working at the Center for Energy and Thermal Sciences at Lyon (CETHIL). He teaches heat transfer at the Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering at INSA Lyon. His primary interests of research are: two-phase flow and flow boiling, micro-heat pipes, constructal theory and thermodynamics. He has published more than 40 journal papers on these topics as well as a few chapters in edited books. He obtained his PhD in 2006 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He received the Eurotherm Prize 2008 for his work on the experimental two-phase fluid flow in microchannels.

Sepideh Khodaparast is a research assistant at the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

She received her BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Tehran in 2007, her MSc from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at EPFL in 2010 and her PhD from the same department in 2014. Her research mainly focuses on the development of quantitative optical techniques for measurements in single- and two-phase flows, especially in microscale geometries.

Navid Borhani received a BEng degree in aeronautical engineering in 1992 and a PhD in aerospace engineering in 1996 from the University of Manchester. After a period of postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado's Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences between 1996 and 1998, he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL in Lausanne, where he was a senior research associate in the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics from 1998 to 2008, and then in the Laboratory of Heat and Mass transfer to date. His research focuses on experimental investigations of single-phase and multi-phase fluid dynamics and instabilities using quantitative optical flow visualization techniques.