UK National Heat Transfer Committee

The 18th UK Heat Transfer Conference

9-11 September 2024, University of Birmingham

Conference Report

The 18th UK Heat Transfer Conference was hosted by the University of Birmingham on 9th-11th September 2024.

This followed the 2021 edition at Manchester University, 2019 edition at Nottingham University, the 2017 edition held at Brunel University London and the 2015 edition at the University of Edinburgh. This edition was chaired by Dr Raya AL-Dadah and co-chaired by Dr Adriano Sciacovelli.

There were six keynote lectures:

Professor Ji Hwan JEONG, Busan University, Korea: “Heat transfer and fluid flow in open cell porous metal structures”
Dr Francesco Coletti, Brunel University: “Exploring Artificial Intelligence Applications to Heat Transfer: the Good, the Bad, the hybrid”
Dr Matteo Bucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA: “faraway, so close: high resolution investigations of boiling heat transfer, from cryogenics to high-pressure water”
Professor Renato Cotta, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: “Recent progresses on fundamentals and applications of computational integral transforms in heat and fluid flow”
Professor Peter Ireland, University of Oxford: “The thermal journey to zero carbon flight”
Dr Marilize Everts, University College London: “The basics, beauty and benefits of mixed connective flow “.

The scientific programme consisted of more than 140 oral presentations dealing with various aspects of heat transfer, from fundamentals to applications. The conference was well attended by more than 170 candidates from national and international academic institutions and industries.

The conference included an industrial session organised by the UK Heat Transfer Society consisting of 6 talks from CALGAVIN Limited, TWI Limited, SynchroStor Limited, Graham Hart Limited and SheCanEngineer.

The conference also included 9 special sessions on the following topics:

Current state and advances in Nuclear Engineering-including aspects of heat transfer.
Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics.
Current state and advancements in Heat Pipe Devices for Smart Thermal Management of Space and Ground applications.
Heat transfer for Net-zero Energy Production and Energy Storage.
Latest Advances in Heat Transfer in Sorption Systems.
Heat Pumps: Enablers of Decarbonization.

The following is a list of the awards for best presentation in across a range of categories. Each prize winner received £150 and a certificate.

Best Presentation on Computational Single-Phase Flows – Fundamental

Dr Alessandro Tassone

COMPUTATIONAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS CODES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUID METAL BREEDING BLANKETS IN MAGNETIC FUSION REACTORS.

Best Presentation on Computational Single-Phase Flows – Applied

Mr Sofiane Benhamadouche

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MAINLY AXIAL FLOW IN MIXED CONVECTION REGIME WITHIN TUBE BUNDLES.

Best Presentation on Experimental Single-Phase Flows

The 18th UK Heat Transfer Conference

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