Encyclopedia of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Flow II

John Rose has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London since 1985. He is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has held sabbatical appointments at MIT, US Naval Postgraduate School and the Universities of Tokyo and Kyushu. His research interests are mainly in the field of condensation heat transfer in which he has published some 200 theoretical and experimental papers. He is presently UK editor of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer and Experimental Heat Transfer.

Dr Hua Sheng Wang is Senior Lecturer in Future Energy at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He has held previous posts at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests include convection heat transfer, liquid/solid phase change, refrigeration, air-conditioning, two-phase flow, boiling, condensation, magnetic refrigeration, energy storage, molecular dynamics and multiscale simulations. He was awarded the Prize and Medal by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers as co-author of "JSME Outstanding Paper of 2002" (Wang, Honda and Nozu, 2002).

Davide Del Col is associate professor at University of Padova, Italy, where he teaches Energy Science and Refrigeration Technology at the School of Engineering. He got his PhD on Energy Science at University of Padova in 1999. He was visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is Member of Commission B1 of International Institute of Refrigeration, Paris; member of the Steering Committee of UIT (Italian Union of Thermal-Fluidynamics), associate of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) in the framework of the Program ALICE at CERN, Geneve. Responsible of the "Laboratory of Two-Phase Heat Transfer" and the "Laboratory of Solar Energy Conversion", at the Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Padova. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications, fifty of them on international peer reviewed journals.

Stefano Bortolin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. He received his PhD from the University of Padova in 2010. His research interests include microscale heat transfer, new refrigerants, computational fluid dynamics and condensation over nano-engineered surfaces. Dr Bortolin has co-authored more than 40 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

Enrico Da Riva is professor of thermal engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon-les-Bains. He got his PhD at the University of Padova, Italy, and was a visiting scholar at the Purdue University, Indiana, USA. He has been working as the technical coordinator of the CFD Team at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. His main research topics are heat pump systems, microscale heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, and modelling of two-phase flow and heat transfer.

Nenad Miljkovic is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he leads the Energy Transport Research Laboratory. Previous to this, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Nano Engineering Lab, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD and MS degrees in the Device Research Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013 and 2011, respectively. His PhD work focused on the design and characterization of micro/nanostructured surfaces for enhanced condensation heat transfer.

Daniel J Preston completed his MS and is currently working on his PhD in the Device Research Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies enhancement of condensation heat transfer achieved through scalable superhydrophobic surface coatings, application of electric fields, and use of lubricating intermediate fluids on micro- and nanostructured surfaces. He received his BS from The University of Alabama, where he investigated industrial-scale energy saving measures with the Alabama Industrial Assessment Center.

Evelyn N Wang is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. She received her BS from MIT in 2000 and MS and PhD from Stanford University in 2001, and 2006, respectively. From 2006–2007, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent. Her research interests include fundamental studies of micro/nanoscale heat and mass transport and the development of efficient thermal management, water desalination, and solar thermal energy systems. Her work has been honored with awards including the 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2011 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the 2012 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer, as well as best paper awards at 2010 and 2014 ITherm and 2012 ASME Micro and Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference.

Igor V Marchuk is senior researcher of the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysycs, Novosibirsk, Russia. He graduates the Novosibirsk State University at 1991. The main interests are heat and mass exchange, multiphase flows, condensation and evaporation, liquid film flows, infrared thermography.

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.

Nicolas's current research area focuses on numerical and physical modeling of evaporating and condensing flows in microchannels with emphasis on pragmatic and industrially realistic modeling. He continued the development of an annular flow condensation code and extended it to include evaporation, turbulent flows and elongated bubbles/slug flows.

Nicolas obtained his PhD from the Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne under the supervision of Professor John R Thome.

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.