NHT 2012

ECCOMAS Special Interest Conference

Numerical Heat Transfer 2012 International Conference (NHT2012) is a Special Interest Conference of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).

ECCOMAS is an organization grouping European Associations with interests in the development and applications of computational methods in science and technology.

Objectives

In last decades the substantial and undisputed increase in the use of mathematical methods for modelling in many branches of natural and engineering sciences can be observed. Among a great variety of problems that have successfully been coped with are the thermal problems themselves as well as their coupling with other multiphysics phenomena. Such approach is also stimulated by growing offer of user friendly commercial software making thermal analyses efficient and accurate.

The objective of the Numerical Heat Transfer 2012 International Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of new approaches to the numerical solutions of heat transfer problems. Methods of interest include all well established and efficient numerical techniques like finite volume method, finite elements and boundary elements. Special attention is paid to complex thermal problems from engineering practice, solved by hybrid methods and their coupling to multiphysics processes.

Numerical Heat Transfer 2012 International Conference is of importance to all scientists, engineers and PhD students who are actively involved in developing innovative approaches, as well as in solving a variety of industrial problems. This conference will also create favourable conditions for establishing and strengthening of scientific links between Western and Eastern research communities.

Plenary speakers

Yogesh Jaluria Chairman of Board of Governors, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA
Numerical Modelling of Multiple Length Scales in Thermal Transport Processes
Tomasz A. Kowalewski Deputy Director for Research of Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT PAN), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Validation of Numerical Models
M. Pinar Mengüc Director of Center for Energy, Environment and Economy, Özyeğin University, Turkey
Near Field Radiation Heat Transfer
Eugenio Ońate Director of International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) , School of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
New particle - based methods and finite element methods for multidisciplinary heat transfer problems
Helcio R. B. Orlande Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Inverse Heat Transfer Problems and their solutions within the Bayesian framework
Wolfgang A. Wall Founding Director of Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Multi-scale computational modeling of coupled mass transfer and tissue deformation in biomechanics

Conference topics

The scope of the conference will encompass all topics related to computer modelling and numerical methods applicable to heat transfer phenomena including multiphysics situations:

conjugate heat transfer models
inverse thermal problems
shape optimisation
heat transfer in bio-medical engineering
multiphase phenomena
advanced numerical techniques
industrial applications
meso and nano scale heat transfer problems
heat, mass and momentum transfer in environmental engineering
reacting flows and heat transfer
large scale energy systems
phase change problems
thermal radiation
interaction of temperature fields with stress and electromagnetism
benchmarks for numerical heat transfer software
other thermal problems