ASME 2010 3rd Joint US–European Fluids Engineering ... - Events

WELCOME
The ASME Fluids Engineering Division sponsors this summer’s meeting jointly with participation by the European Mechanical
Engineering Societies, the 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM), and the 7th
International Symposium on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Flow-Sound Interactions, and Flow-Induced Vibration & Noise (FSI2 & FIV+N).
The new venue this year appears to have attracted considerable interest, in spite of an international economic downturn. Initially, 1027
abstracts were received from over 2000 coauthors representing 44 countries. As usual, this conference has attracted significant
international interest. A special welcome is extended to our international participants.
The objective of this conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of information related to fluids engineering for engineers from
around the world, who represent academia, industry, and government laboratories. The conference addresses a broad range of topics
in analysis, numerical methods, and experiments in the areas of multi-phase flows, traditional fluid mechanics, experimental methods,
industrial applications, microfluidics, nano-micro-mini-channels, fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibration & noise. The
conference has a total of 144 two-hour sessions over four days of technical meetings with over 760 papers. Participants are invited
to attend the technical committee meetings, which are responsible for the planning of future conferences. We welcome participants’
ideas for future technical sessions.
Additionally, the conference has five plenary lectures of one hour each sponsored by the technical committees and the ICNMM. The
speakers include Prof. Harry Goldsmith, formerly of McGill University, Prof. Parviz Moin of Stanford University, Prof. Christophe Bailly
of Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL) in France, Prof. Kemal (Kemo) Hanjalic of Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, and Dr. Paul Cooper of
the Flowserve Corporation (retired). Furthermore, Prof. Michael W. Reeks of Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, is the
2010 Freeman Scholar Award recipient and will deliver the Freeman Scholar Lecture. Furthermore, many outstanding Keynote
Speakers for the symposia and fora are featured in this program.
We are pleased that the Fluids Engineering Division, ICNMM, and FSI2 & FIV+N have joined forces to offer the participants one of
the most comprehensive and exciting joint summer conferences ever. This partnership is expected to continue in the future. As many
of you know, the ICNMM conference arose from a close knit group of microchannel researchers, many coming from the fields of heat
transfer and boiling, and over the years has grown to include all manner of technologically important applications such as
electrokinetics, lab-on-a-chip processes, and biosensors. It is exciting news to announce that the ICNMM conference is now
integrated within the ASME’s Fluids Engineering and Heat Transfer Divisions. These divisions have agreed to host the conference in
alternate years at US and international locations in the coming years.
It has been a pleasure collaborating with many wonderful colleagues from the European Mechanical Engineering Societies who
worked closely with us to organize many symposia and fora at this conference. We are grateful to Drs. Jean Bataille of France,
Martin Sommerfeld of Germany, Alfredo Soldati of Italy, Harry Hoeijmakers of the Netherlands, and Michael Reeks of UK.
Finally, Dr. David Halt’s, Technical Program Chair, hard work in arranging sessions and preparing the schedule is greatly appreciated.
Special thanks are also extended to our volunteer organizers for this conference. The total number of organizers for the symposia
and fora is approximately 138. We are very appreciative of the plenary, keynote speakers, and authors for agreeing to share their
expertise and knowledge with us. Special thanks are also extended to the ASME staff: Erin Dolan, Conference Manager, Stacey
Cooper, Annette Robinson of Technical Publications, Jacinta McComie-Cates and Lee Hawkins of Knowledge & Community, and
Victoria Feliz who managed the Letters of Invitation.
With our very best wishes to the conference attendees,
WELCOME FROM CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Mohammad H. Hosni Satish G. Kandlikar Michael R. King Michael P. Païdoussis
Kansas State University Rochester Institute of Technology Cornell University McGill University
Conference Chair ICNMM Co-Chairs ICNMM Co-Chairs FSI2 & FIV+N Chair