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NEWSLETTER
No. 43, March 2015
The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow

NUTHOS-10 (10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics,Operation and Safety)
December 14-18, 2014, Ginowan-shi, Okinawa, Japanby Tomio Okawa
NUTHOS-10 (10th International Topical Meetingon Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety)
was held at Okinawa Convention Center (Ginowan-shi,Okinawa, Japan) on December 14-18, 2014 (Photo 1).
The first NUTHOS was held in Taipei in 1984
followed by Tokyo (1986), Seoul (1988), Taipei(1994), Beijing (1997), Nara (2004), Seoul (2008),
Shanghai (2010), Kaohsiung (2012), and the present
Okinawa (2014) is the tenth of the series. As can beexpected from the conference name and the venues,
main features of NUTHOS are covering wide range oftopics related to nuclear engineering and being held in
East Asia.
NUTHOS-10 was sponsored by Atomic Energy
Society of Japan, in cooperation with IAEA, and cosponsored by the nuclear societies of 11 countries(USA, Mexico, Slovenia, Canada, China, Israel, Korea,Taiwan, Brazil, Vietnam, and India) and Japan Atomic

Photo 1 Okinawa Convention CenterIndustrial Forum. In addition, NUTHOS-10 wasfinancially supported by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry,Toshiba, and Hitachi. The number of participants was
307 and NUTHOS-10 could be counted as one of thelargest NUTHOS conferences. The participants can be
broken down by geographical region to 215 from East

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Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Vietnam,Thai, Hong Kong), 67 from Europe (Germany, Sweden,Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Belgium,
Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, Norway, UK), 24 from
North and South America (USA, Canada, Mexico,Argentina), and 1 from IAEA. As expected in
NUTHOS, we fortunately succeeded to getparticipants mainly from East Asia but from various 24countries. The number of regular papers was 238, and
1 opening remark, 2 plenary lectures, 1 panel
discussion, and 10 keynote lectures were given.
The opening remark by Ms. Reiko Fujita(President of Atomic Energy Society of Japan) brought
the opening of NUTHOS-10 followed by the twoplenary lectures by Prof. Nam Dinh (North CarolinaState University) and Prof. H. Yamana (Nuclear
Damage Compensation and Decommissioning
Facilitation Corporation). Prof. Dinh talked about the
recent research projects related to nuclear power safetyand Prof. Yamana the decommissioning of Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. In the second day, thepanel discussion “Perspective of Nuclear Thermal
Hydraulic and Safety Research in the Post Fukushima
Daiichi Accident Era” was held by eight leading
researchers. In the second and third days, the ten
keynote lectures were given to introduce recent trendsof the research in the field of nuclear engineering.
The 238 regular papers were presented in 19
technical tracks. In the tracks including the term
“thermal-hydraulics” in their names, 135 papers werepresented; these papers formed the core of NUTHOS10 as in the previous conferences. In the tracks ofsevere accident, a total of 33 papers was presented (19in mitigation measures, 4 in AM guidelines, and 10 inlicensing issues). In addition to these, 15 papers werepresented in the track of PRA application. Thesepapers were a marked feature of NUTHOS-10.

Photo 2 “Kachuushii” at the end of banquet
In closing, the banquet held in the third dayevening (December 16) in which we enjoyed the flavorof Okinawa is outlined. We used shuttle buses to visit
the theme park “Ryukyumura” where the good olddays of Okinawa is re-created. There were many
impressive things such as fantastic Okinawan dishes(whole roasted pig, Okinawan noodle, etc.) and theOkinawan performances (lion dance, Eisaa (traditionaldance using drums), etc.). The highlight of banquet
was definitely the Okinawan traditional dance“Kachuushii” that all the participants tried after short
instruction (Photo 2).
In conclusion, it can be said that NUTHOS-10 wascompleted successfully with the participants more than300. At the end of this article, I would like to introducethat the next NUTHOS is held in 2016 at Gyeongju(Korea) and the next NURETH (maybe a sisterconference of NUTHOS) in 2015 at Chicago.
Tomio Okawa
Chair, Local Organizing Committee of NUTHOS-10
The University of Electro-Communications
E-mail: okawa.tomio@uec.ac.jp

2nd International Symposium on Multiscale Multiphase Process Engineering (MMPE2)
September 24-27, 2014, Hamburg, Germanyby Yosuke Matsukuma
The 2nd International Symposium on MultiscaleMultiphase Process Engineering (MMPE2) was heldat Crowne Plaza hotel (Photo 1) in Hamburg, Germany

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Science. The conference chair was Prof. Michael
Schlüter, vice chair Prof. Dieter Bothe.
The MMPE is the symposium in the field ofmodern nano-, micro- and macro-scale aspects ofmultiphase process engineering. The first conference
was launched in Kanazawa, Japan on 4-7 October 2011
with more than 115 participants from Japan, Germany
and other countries, expecting to develop the scientificbasis and network built up since 1988 through theformer 1st to 7th Japanese/German Symposium on
Bubble Columns (JGSBC) which was held trienniallyand alternatively in Japan and Germany.
More than 120 reserchers from Germany, Japan,Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Canada
paticipated in the MMPE2. The session topics and thecorrespounding numbers of papers are listed in Table
1. The first keynote lecture was delivered by Prof.
Sakai (Tokyo University) with a title of “Advanced
multi-physics modeling for industrial powder
processes,” on Thursday morning, and it was followed
up by the 11 oral presentation in one room. On Fridday
morning, Prof. Khinast (University of Graz) gave us
the second keynote lecture with a title of“Pharmaceutical Engineering: Engineering themanufacturing processes for the drugs of the future.” The
13 oral presentations were given after the keynote lecture.
Short poster presentations (with 79 posters) wereintroduced on Thursday and Friday afternoon before theposter sessions.
MMPE2 was successfully completed by cooperation
with many persons. The next MMPE (MMPE3)

Photo 1 Crowne Plaza hotel and participants
Table 1 Session topics
Session topics
OralPoster

Micro-Nanotechnology
Multiphase reactors

3613
15

Experimental techniqueFundamentals

241111

Computational fluid dynamics
Innovative applications

63

16
13Total24

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symposium will be held in May 2017 in Toyama city,Japan.

Yosuke Matsukuma
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Fukuoka University, Japan
E-mail: ymatsukuma@fukuoka-u.ac.jp

Future Meetings
Following list includes conference name, place, date and contact information.
4th Multiphase Flow Journeys (JEM 2015)
Campinas, Brazil, March 23-27, 2015
http://www.jem2015.fem.unicamp.br
Computational Thermal Radiation in
Participating Media V
Albi and Toulouse, France, April 1-3, 2015
Chair: Prof. M. el Hafi
http://ctrpm5.wp.mines-telecom.fr

10th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces
and Boilers (INFUB)
Gaia (Porto), Portugal, April 7-10, 2015
Chair: Prof. V. Scherer (Ruhr Univ. Bochum)
http://www.cenertec.pt/infub3

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8th International Conference on Computationaland Experimental Methods in Multiphase andComplex Flow
València, Spain, April 20-22, 2015
Chair: Prof. P. Vorobieff (Univ. New Mexico)
Chair: Prof. C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Inst.)
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/15-conferences/multiphaseflow-2015.html
9th ECI Conference on Boiling and Condensation
Heat Transfer
Boulder, USA, April 26-30, 2015
Chair: Prof. J. Kim (UMD)
http://www.boiling2015.umd.edu
23rd International Conference on Nuclear
Engineering(ICONE23)
Chiba, Japan, May 17-20, 2015
Chair: Dr. S. Matsuura (Japan Nuclear Safety Inst.)
http://www.icone23.org
ASME ATI UIT 2015
Napoli, Italy, May 17-20, 2015
Chair: Prof. R. Goldstein (Univ. Minnesota)
Chair: Prof. O. Manca (Seconda Univ. Napoli)
Chair: Prof. V. Naso (Univ. Napoli Federico II)
Chair: Prof. T. Simon (Univ. of Minnesota)
http://www.asmeatiuit2015.com/public/index.php
International Symposium on Micro and Nano
Technology (ISMNT-5)
Calgary, Canada, May18-20, 2015
Chair: A.A. Mohamad (SSE, Univ. Calgary)
Co-Chair: T. Ohara (Tohoku Univ.)
Co-Chair: X. Zhang (Tsinghua Univ.)
http://ismnt.org
6th International Symposium on Advances in
Computational Heat Transfer (CHT-15)
Piscataway, USA, May 25-29, 2015
http://www.ichmt.org/cht-15
10th Pacific Symp Flow Visualization and Image
Processing (PSFVIP-10)
Naples, Italy, June 15-18, 2015
Chair: G. Cardone (Univ. Naples)
http://www.psfvip10.unina.it/ocs2/index.php/2015/ind
ex/pages/view/Topics
The International Conference on Jets, Wakes andSeparated Flows (ICJWSF2015)
Stockholm, Sweden, June 16-18, 2015
Chair:L. Fuchs (KTH, Stockholm)
Co-Chair:E. Gutmark (Univ. Cincinnati)
Co-Chair:T. Uchiyama (Nagoya Univ.)
http://www.icjwsf2015.com

7th Baltic Heat Transfer Conference
Tallinn, Estonia, 24-26 August, 2015
Chair: Dr. D. Neshumayev
http://www.ttu.ee/bhtc2015
16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear
Reactor Thermalhydraulics (NURETH-16)
Chicago from August 30–September 4, 2015
Chair: Prof. M. Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin)
Chair: Prof. H. Ninokata (Politecnico Milano)
http://nureth16.anl.gov
11th International Symposium on Particle Image
Velocimetry (PIV 2015)
Santa Barbara, USA, September 14-16, 2015
http://www.piv2015.org
Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer, Symposium
2015
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 15-18,
2015
Chair: Prof. K. Hanjalic (Delft Univ. Tech.)
Co-Chair: Prof. T. Miyauchi (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
http://www.thmt-15.org
The 13th Asian Symposium on Visualization
Novosibirsk, Russia, June 22–26, 2015
Chair: Prof. V.M. Fomin (ITAM SB RAS)
http://conf.nsc.ru/13asv/en
International Symposium on Heat and Mass
Transfer in Biological and Medical Engineering(Biotransport-15)
Izmir, Turkey, 5-10 July, 2015.
http://www.ichmt.org/biotr-15
ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Eng.
Conference 2015
Seoul, Korea, July 26-31, 2015
Chair: Prof. N. Hur (Sogang Univ.)
Chair: Prof. K. Walters (Mississippi State Univ.)
Chair: Prof. C. Kato (Univ. Tokyo)
http://www.ajk2015-fed.org
9th International Symposium on Measurement
Techniques for Multiphase Flows (9th ISMTMF)
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, September 23-25, 2015
Chair: Y. Murai (Hokkaido Univ.)
Co-Chair: S. Hosokawa (Kobe Univ.)
http://ring-me.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/ismtmf2015
26th International Symposium on Transport
Phenomena
Leoben, Austria, September 27-October 1, 2015
Chair: Prof. H. Raupenstrauch (Montanuniv. Leoben)
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MeetingZermatt, Switzerland, October 11-15, 2015
Chair: Prof. J. R. Thome (EPFL)
http://eurojp2phase2015.epfl.ch
International Gas Turbine Congress 2015 Tokyo(IGTC2015 Tokyo)
Tokyo, Japan, November 15-20, 2015
Chair: Prof. T. Watanabe (Univ. Tokyo)
http://www.gtsj.org/english/igtc/IGTC2015

Physical and Chemical Phenomena in Heat
Exchangers and Multifunctional Reactors for
Sustainable Technology
Paris, France, Summer 2015
Chair: Prof. H. Peerhossaini
E-mail: hassan.peerhossaini@univ-paris-diderot.fr1st European Workshop on Thermoacoustics
Twente, The Netherlands, Mid/Autumn 2015
Chair: Prof. T. van der Meer (Univ. Twente)
E-mail: T.H.vanderMeer@utwente.nl

12th International Conference on PowerEngineering 2015(ICOPE-15)
Yokohama, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 2015
Chair: Prof. M. Osakabe (Tokyo Univ. Marine
Science and Tech.)
http://www.jsme.or.jp/pes/ICOPE-15

Executive Division of The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow (2014)
President
Vice Presidents

M. Mori (Hokkaido University)
T. Takamasa (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
H. Umekawa (Kansai University)
C. Iwaki (Toshiba Corporation)

Chair of Informatics Division
K. Katoh (Osaka City University)
Chair of Planning Division
S. Takagi (The University of Tokyo)
Chair of International Intercourse Division
T. Okawa (The University of Electro-Communications)
Chair of General Affairs Division
M. Watanabe (Hokkaido University)
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Corresponding Members
AUSTRALIA
Hubert Chanson
Jiyuan Tu
Aibing Yu
AUSTRIAStefan Pirker
BRAZIL
Gherhardt Ribatski
Oscar M. H. Rodriguez
CANADA
Jos Derksen
Jovica Riznic
CHINA
Xu Cheng
Liejin Guo
Jinghai Li
Lixing Zhou
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiři Drahoš
FRANCE
Alain Cartellier
Catherine Colin
Michel Lance
Jacques Magnaudet
Olivier Simonin
Anne Tanière
Stéphane Zaleski
GERMANY
Dirk Lucas
Michael Schlüter
Martin Sommerfeld
Peter StephanMarkus Uhlmann
GREECE
Vasilis Bontozoglou
INDIA
Gargi Das
ISRAEL
Neima Brauner
Yehuda Taitel
ITALY
Gian Piero CelataPaolo di Marco
Alfredo Soldati

KOREA
Moo Hwan Kim
Sang Yong Lee
Chul-Hwa SongNETHERLAND
J.A.M. (Hans) Kuipers

University of Queensland
RMIT University
University of New South Wales
Johannes Kepler University
Universidade de São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo

KINS
KAIST
KAERI
Eindhoven University ofTechnology
Delft University of Technology

Robert Mudde
NORWAYNTNU
Ole Nydal
RUSSIA
Novosibirsk State University
Sergey V. Alekseenko
SLOVENIA
University of Ljubljana
Iztok ŽunSPAIN
University of Jaén
Carlos Martinez-Bazan
SWEDENRoyal Institute of Technology
Henryk Anglart
SWITZERLAND
ETH Zürich
Horst-Michael Prasser
EPFL
John R. Thome
TAIWAN
National Tsing Hua University
Chih-Chen Chen
TURKEY
Isik University
Can Fuat DelaleUK
University College London
Panagiota Angeli
University of Nottingham
Barry Azzopardi
Brunel University
Tassos G. Karayiannis
Imperial College London
Omar K. Matar
Newcastle University
Mike Reeks
USA
University of Michigan
Steven L. Ceccio
University of Florida
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis
University of California, Los
Vijay K. Dhir
Angeles
Stanford University
John K. Eaton
Iowa State University
Rodney O. Fox
Illinois Institute of Technology
Dimitri Gidaspow
Texas A & M University
Yassin A. Hassan
Purdue University
Takashi Hibiki
California Institute of Technology
Melany HuntRochester Institute of Technology
Satish Kandlikar
City College of Newyork City
Masahiro Kawaji
University of Maryland
Jungho Kim
University of Minnesota
Ellen K. Longmire
Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides
Texas Christian University
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMichael Podowski
Gretar Tryggvason
University of Notre Dame

University of Alberta
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tsinghua University
Academy of Science of the Czech
RepublicLEGI,CNRS and University Grenoble Alpes
IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRS
École Centrale de Lyon
IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRS
IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRSLEMTA, Nancy University
University Pierre et Marie CurieHZDR
TU Hamburg-Harburg
Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg
Darmstadt University of Technology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Thessaly
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
ENEA
University of Pisa
Università di Udine

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