Encyclopedia of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Flow II

Fanghao Yang is a postdoctoral researcher in IBM T J Watson Research. Dr Yang received the BEng degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 2008 and the PhD in mechanical engineering from University of South Carolina in 2013. From 2009 to 2013, he was a Research Assistant with the department of mechanical engineering in University of South Carolina. His research focuses on thermal fluidics, phase-change heat transfer in Microsystem and electronics cooling. He has authored or co-authored 15 articles in prestigious journals and international conferences. He is also an inventor of 4 US patents.

Chen Li is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia, USA. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA in 2006. He conducts research in micro/nano-scale two-phase heat and flow physics, prediction, control and modeling and aims at basic research in developing and verifying theories based on new two-phase transport behaviors observed in experiments. Dr Li's research is sponsored by NASA, NSF, ONR, and DARPA.

Professor, PhD Oleg A Kabov graduated from the Tomsk Polytechnic State University, Russia, in 1978 and received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (IT) in 1987. In 1999 he received the degree of Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (habilitation) from the same institute. In 2007 he has been granted the diploma of Professor on thermal physics and thermal fluids science of Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1987, he has been the Head of Laboratory of Enhancement of Heat Transfer in IT (Novosibirsk). His current research interests include: shear-driven and falling liquid films and rivulets, two-phase flows in microgravity and hypergravity, drop spreading and drop evaporation, condensation, evaporative and thermocapillary convection. From 1997 till 2012 he was in a research staff of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and has been managing the "Two-Phase Systems Group" of the Microgravity Research Center of ULB. He was involved as a coordinator and researcher in the several experiments performed under microgravity conditions (Parabolic Flights, Sounding Rockets, International Space Station). Experiments in 10 parabolic flights campaigns of the European Space Agency have been performed. He has authored and coauthored 271 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings, 7 patents, has delivered 60 keynotes, plenary, and invited lectures at technical conferences and institutions. He is a member of National Committee on Heat and Mass Transfer of Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2006 Prof. Kabov initiated the permanent yearly Workshop on Two-Phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications. Since 2013 he is serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer" published by Begell House.

Professor Dr. Sc. Vladimir V Kuznetsov is the Head of the Laboratory of Applied and Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Institute of Hydrodynamics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Hydrodynamics SB RAS, scientific expert of Krasnoyarsk regional fund of science. Since 1994 V V Kuznetsov is teaching at Novosibirsk State University. He is a specialist in the field of boundary layers, fluid motion with interfaces, fluid dynamics and heat-mass transfer at zero gravity conditions, author and co-author of 80 scientific works, including two patents.

Dr Yulia Kabova is a senior scientist in the Institute of Thermophysics Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. She joined in many projects associated with the intensification of heat exchange with phase changes as a supervisor and principal investigator. Her current research interests include the hydrodynamics and heat-mass transfer in shear-driven and falling nonisothermal liquid films, evaporation and rivulet flows.

Professor Yoav Peles is an international leader in the field of convective heat transfer in micro domains. He published more than 90 peer reviewed journal papers, about 50 conference papers, has several patents, written four book chapters, and is the author of a book. Professor Peles organized several international conferences and workshops including the first Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer to be held in January 2015. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME).

Dr Sylwia Szczukiewicz is a scientific collaborator at the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (LTCM, EPFL). She received her master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Kielce University of Technology (PŚk), Poland, in 2009. Her PhD thesis, as a part of the Nano-Tera RTD project CMOSAIC, was focused on the two-phase flow operational stability of refrigerants in multi-microchannels for cooling of future high-performance 3D stacked architectures with interlayer cooling. She has been involved in designing and setting up an experimental test loop to investigate a passive thermosyphon cooling system for high heat flux datacenter servers. Since 2009, she has authored over 10 journal and conference papers

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.

Nicolas Lamaison received his master's degree in energy from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon, France, in 2010. He is currently finishing his PhD in the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His current research interests are dynamic modeling and experimental evaluation of pumped or gravity driven controlled two-phase on-chip cooling systems. It includes fluid mechanics and heat transfer in parallel microchannels evaporators/condenser, analysis of system dynamics and investigation of energy recovery.

Dr Jackson Braz Marcinichen is a Research Post Doc at the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer at the EPFL (Lausanne-Switzerland) and has over 20 years experience in HVAC & R systems. He received his BE in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil in 1996, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the same university in 2006. He has authored over 30 scientific and technical papers in indexed journals and international peer-reviewed conferences, book chapters and US patents. He has designed and evaluated several experimental facilities characterizing the thermo-hydrodynamic and control of cooling systems (calorimeters, wind tunnel, hybrid systems etc). Today he is engaged in the development of new novel hybrid cooling systems (passive and active) to cool high heat flux electronics components using on-chip cooling.

Dr Tom Saenen is a Research Post Doc at the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer at the EPFL (Lausanne-Switzerland). He received his ME in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 2007, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the same university in 2013. His main research interests are dynamic modeling of two-phase cooling and refrigeration systems including their components, with a focus on flow and heat transfer in microchannel evaporators. He has authored several papers in indexed journals and international peer-reviewed conferences on these topics.

Martine Baelmans is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the KU Leuven in Belgium, where she leads the group on thermal-fluid engineering since 1996. She graduated from the same university and obtained her PhD in Engineering in 1993. She has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in applications on fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Research topics are presently focusing on automated optimization in thermal design. Starting from dedicated component and system models, parameters, shapes and topologies are improved. Applications range from liquid and two-phase microelectronics cooling over thermal management in power electronics, power transformers and energy systems.