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NEWSLETTER
No. 41, March 2014
The Japanese Society for Multiphase FlowIn Memory of Dr. Novak Zuber*

by Mamoru Ishii
revolution in Yugoslavia. In spite of this, he was
educated in an elite secondary school and began study
at the University of Rome in Italy. He was fluent in
Serbian, English, Russian, Italian and French. To
avoid the aftermath of the war, he began working as aseaman and later jumped ship to enter the UnitedStates. He began his study in mechanical engineering
at UCLA, where he obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.
During his time at UCLA the Immigration Office
finally caught up to him, but because of his
outstanding research record he was able to become aU.S. Citizen thanks to special efforts by UCLA andthe U.S. Congress.
His Ph.D. thesis became a widely known treatiseon boiling heat transfer, and he eventually received
the first Heat Transfer Memorial Award from theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
for this work. From 1960 to 1967 he worked atGeneral Electric, where he performed a variety of
research including such significant work as thedevelopment of the drift-flux model. The drift-flux
model and the graphical methodology for developing
the necessary constitutive relations from experimental

Dr. Novak Zuber (December 4, 1922 - October 3,2013) was one of the most important scientists indeveloping the field of two-phase flow and boilingheat transfer. He was a guiding light in the newly
developing field of nuclear thermal-hydraulics. His
influence on the development of analysis capability
for nuclear reactor accidents is acknowledged aroundthe world. He had an unlimited passion and love forscience and engineering and an energy that
influenced the people around him and changed their
way of life. His interests were not limited to nuclear
thermal-hydraulics but extended to the generalengineering field, scaling, evolution and history,
particularly that of central Asia, Europe and theBalkans.
I had the privilege of being his first Ph.D. student
at New York University. Since several memorial
articles for Novak Zuber are already appearing in the
publications of other scientific societies, I would liketo take this opportunity to remember Professor Zuber
as one of his former students.
Professor Zuber had a turbulent youth due toWorld War II and the subsequent communist

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I also found that it was not necessary to answer
every question directly. Novak liked honesty and aquick wit, and you could occasionally use that toescape embarrassing situations. During my oral
qualifying exam in front of six or so professors,
Novak asked me to derive an area-averaged
two-phase flow equation. At first I was shocked, as
this derivation would require many pages of lengthy
mathematics. I began the first several steps of thederivation, but became increasing frustrated with thesituation. I turned around, looked at Novak and asked“Why did you ask this question? You know that I
have done it before and can do it again, but it simply
takes too long!” He laughed loudly and told me that I
did not need to do it.
In 1969 he accepted a Chair position at Georgia
Tech, and I followed him to Atlanta. At that time
Gunol Kocamustafaogullari (later Kojasoy) asked me
to introduce him to Novak and was also hired as a
research assistant. Soon after we moved to Atlanta,
Jean-Marc Delhaye of Grenoble Nuclear ResearchCenter joined us as a visiting scientist. The four of us
became the core of Novak Zuber’s laboratory at
Georgia Tech. We worked very closely and had
almost daily discussions on our two-phase flow
research. At this time we had a critical mass for
efficient research. We often went to lunch together,followed by visits to the university book store. It wasthen that I found out about Novak’s tremendous
knowledge of, and passion for, world history. He wasparticularly interested in the history of Eastern
Europe and Central Asia, especially the Turkish andMongol Empires. From these discussions with him, I
was motivated to expand my horizons and began toread history books that he had recommended. In thisway, Novak had a great influence on the people
around him. We learned not only about two-phaseflow and science, but also to expand our interest in
history and civilization. At the time of his death
Novak left over 7000 books on topics including
science and engineering, history and civilization, andI am happy to hear that his alma mater, UCLA, will
establish the Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer
Library to honor his legacy.
Our research group was soon joined by Pradip
Saha, Yoo Kim, Denis Liles, Ken William and others.
Novak was a professor of mechanical engineering
only from 1967 to 1974, but he was an outstanding

data provided the first reliable, mechanistic model for
calculating the void fraction in a boiling system, evenunder transient conditions. The development of thismodel marked a significant change in the generalapproach to two-phase flow analysis from one basedlargely on empirical correlations to a mechanistic
approach based on physical principles.
From 1967 to 1969 he was a professor of
Mechanical Engineering at New York University. I
was very fortunate to receive a recommendation to be
his first research assistant from the chair of thegraduate committee at NYU. At my interview for the
position he spoke about density wave instability forabout 30 minutes in very rapid English, then suddenly
stopped and asked me “Do you like it?” I had no idea
what he was talking about, and I told him so. He
smiled, then gave me about 30 reports and papers andtold me to come back in two weeks. At my second
interview, I was able to ask some questions andluckily was hired. This was my introduction to thetwo-phase flow instability problem that became thetopic for my Ph.D. Thesis. He was a considerate andkind teacher and was my tutor during my study in
two-phase flow before he offered the first two-phaseflow course at NYU. This allowed me to personallylearn about his logical and systematic approach toscience.
When Novak Zuber offered the first formal
graduate course on two-phase flow, I was shocked tosee how strict a teacher he was. Initially, several
assistant professors and postdocs audited the course
in addition to the graduate students. He asked manyquestions directly to the students, and when we were
not able to answer we got into a lot of trouble. Many
students were advised to drop the course. Soon
almost 1/3 of the students and all of the assistantprofessors and postdocs had withdrawn from thecourse. The second two-phase flow course was evenmore difficult, because only five students remained.
We all tried not to make eye contact with him toavoid being asked direct questions. Many years later,
I think that these courses were actually very good attraining us to handle difficult questions with little
preparation. Since then I have often seen him
asking very difficult questions at international
conferences. I was reminded of these courses, andwas grateful that the experience helped me in these
instances.

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problem-solving based on physical principles andrigorous mathematical treatments.
I worked with Novak on several topics from 1974
until his retirement in 1991, including thedevelopment of constitutive relations for thetwo-fluid model such as the drag force and interfacial
area concentration. One of our most significant
accomplishments was the development of a rational
integral scaling method for thermal-hydraulic systems
and severe accident analysis. Novak played a key roleat the NRC in developing the Code Scaling,
Applicability and Uncertainty (CSAU) methodologythat led to the revision of Appendix K of 10 CFR
50.46 for LOCA analysis to permit the applicant touse best estimate analysis with quantification of
uncertainty in the licensing process.
Even after his retirement from NRC, Novak
remained very active in nuclear thermal-hydraulics.
His influence affected all of the research that we
performed for NRC.
He was always verystraightforward, scientific and rational and was quick
to note any weakness in analysis or modeling.
Novak
Zuber
made
many
significant
contributions in the area of two-phase flow andboiling heat transfer, and published over 100
technical papers. He was also a true leader in thefield of nuclear thermal-hydraulics and hadwidespread impact on the development of nuclear
safety research. From him, we learned that honesty
and integrity in research are of supreme importance.
He attained many awards and honors from various
scientific societies and from NRC, however he wasalso a gifted teacher and colleague and a wonderfulfriend to many of us. It was a privilege to know him
personally, and to work with him. He will be
remembered as a person who had a positive impact
on our lives and many others. It is very sad to lose afriend like Novak, however we also celebrate his
contributions to the field of two-phase flow, his otheraccomplishments, and his friendship.

educator who had a strong influence on the field of
two-phase flow analysis through his students and his
students’ students. At Georgia Tech we were mostconcerned with developing the correct field equations
for two-phase flows and the interfacial jumpconditions. Jean-Marc worked on developing theinterfacial jump conditions, while Gunol studied thearea-averaged two-fluid model as his Ph.D. thesis
topic. I was interested in the time-averaged two-fluid
model. When Jean-Marc returned to Grenoble, heinvited me there to continue my work on the
two-fluid model. The mathematically rigorous
two-fluid model used in today’s computational tools
can be traced to Novak Zuber and his research groupat Georgia Tech, which we had the privilege of beinga part of.
In 1974 Novak left Georgia Tech and joined theAtomic Energy Commission. Soon after this, the
AEC was divided into the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) and the Energy Research andDevelopment Administration (later the Department ofEnergy, DOE). When I returned from Grenoble I
began to work at Argonne National Laboratory, whileat the NRC Dr. L.S. Tong was assembling a group of
truly impressive experts on two-phase flow andboiling heat transfer including Novak, Y.Y. Hsu andS. Fabic.
Soon the NRC embarked on the development ofadvanced safety analysis codes for LOCAs, as theexisting codes at that time were not capable. Novak
led the development of several NRC codes including
TRAC-B, TRAC-P, RELAP5 and RAMONA. Later
TRAC and RELAP5 became the best-estimate codesthat changed the handling of LOCAs in licensing
procedures. At that time the NRC had a very large
international “2D-3D Program” with Japan and some
European countries. Novak had tremendous influenceon these large experimental programs as well as theanalysis methods. The NRC then set up the Advisory
Committee for Advanced Code Development, which
included top minds from the fields of appliedmathematics, continuum mechanics, two phase flow,heat transfer and numerical methods. It was areflection of Novak’s very rational approach to* This article is reprinted from Japanese Journal ofMultiphase Flow, Vol.27, No.4, 2013.

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11th

International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
June 16-19, 2013, Sapporo, Japan

ASME 11th International Conference on ICNMM 2013
by Takemi Chikahisa
technical program includes 150 papers in 13 paralleltechnical sessions. The plenary lectures were givenby three honorable keynote speakers; Professor
Koichi Hishida (Keio University), Professor Peter
Stephan (Technische Universität Darmstadt), andProfessor Masahiro Kawaji (University of Toronto).
The session topics and the corresponding numberof papers are listed below:

The Eleventh International Conference on
Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels(ICNMM) was successfully held in June 16-19, 2013at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. Thisconference is sponsored by the Fluids Engineeringand Heat Transfer Technical Divisions of theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
The conference was first launched in 2003, and it has
been held every year to provide a platform to
exchange information in this emerging area
encompassing micro thermal systems, MEMS,
microfluidics, bio-medical and many other frontierresearch disciplines. This year the organizers decided
to consolidate the tracks and selected thirteen focused
topics ranging from single phase flow to chemical
reactions as shown in list below.

Single Phase Gas Flow9Single Phase Liquid Flow6



Two-Phase Flow

16

Boiling and Condensation

16

Electronics Cooling7Electrokinetic Flow5

Fuel Cells

15

Thin Film, Interfacial Phenomena, and5
Surface Tension Driven Flows

Nano and Micro-Structures for Heat
13
Transfer Enhancement



Biomedical and Lab-on-a-Chip

15



Measurements and Instrumentation

10Modeling and Simulation

26



Mixing and Chemical Reactions

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The conference began with an opening reception
for all the attendees near the university campus. It
was hosted by the Dean of Engineering of Hokkaido
University. The conference banquet was hosted in
Keio Plaza Hotel. The conference ended with afriendly farewell reception in the campus. The next
ICNMM 2014 conference will be held at the HyattRegency McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, on
August 3-7 in 2014.

The conference chair was Professor Yoav Pelesof Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The co-chairs
were Professor Daniel Attinger (Iowa State
University) and Professor Vinod Narayanan (Oregon
State University), and the conference local chairs
were Professor Takemi Chikahisa (Hokkaido
University) and Professor Yas Takata (Kyushu
University). Over 160 scholars and researchers from23 countries participated in the conference. The
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Prof. Takemi Chikahisa
Graduate School of Engineering
Hokkaido University, Japan
E-mail: takemi@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE21) Conference Report
July 29-August 2, Chengdu, China
by Akihiro Matsuda
Standards, Licensing and Regulatory Issues, Track 8
Fuel Cycle, Radioactive Waste Management andDecommissioning, Track 9 Thermal Hydraulics,
Track 10 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and
Coupled Codes, Track 11 Reactor Physics andTransport Theory, Track 12 Nuclear Education,
Public Acceptance and Related Issues, Track 13
Instrumentation & Controls (I&C), Track 14 Fusion
Engineering, Track 15 Beyond Design Basis Events,
Track 16 Student Paper Competition, Track 17 Panel
Session. The conference was mainly organized by the
Chinese Nuclear Society, the American Society ofMechnical Engineers and the Japan Society ofMechnical Engineers in cooperation with the

The 21st International Conference on Nuclear
Engineering (ICONE21) was held in Chengdu, China
from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August. Over 1,300
participants attended the conference. About 910 oralpresentations(about 100 presentations from Japan), 61
panel presentations were made in the following 17
tracks: Track 1 Plant Operations, Maintenance,
Engineering, Modifications, Life Cycle and Balanceof Plant, Track 2 Nuclear Fuel and Materials, Track 3
Plant Systems, Construction, Structures andComponents, Track 4 Radiation Protection and
Nuclear Technology Applications, Track 5 Next
Generation Reactors and Advanced Reactors, Track 6
Nuclear Safety and Security, Track 7 Codes,
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Inland NPPs: Experience & Outlook and 17-10
Nuclear Engineering Education. For each session, 5 to
9 panelists presented and disscussed technical issues
in front of an audience. All of the panel session
presentations were very impressive and included
many technical suggestions. In particular, Track 17-6
Fukushima Daiichi Accident Issues and Track 17-7
Variety of Severe Accident Management were very
impressive to me.
It was announced that the next conference,
ICONE22, will be held in Prague, which is the capitaland largest city of the Czech Republic, in July of 2014.

International Atomic Energy Agency and theChengdu Municipal Government. The conference
sponsors were CNNC Jianzhong Nuclear Fuel Co.,
CNNC Southwestern Institute of Physics, Shanghai
Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institue,
Candu Energy Inc., AREVA, Westinghouse, EDF andStudsvik.
The conference covered a wide range of research
fields in nuclear engineering, so it is difficult to reporton all aspects. I would like to present Track 17,
Pannel Session, because I was one of the co-chairs forthis track. It consisted of the following 10 pannel
sessions: 17-1 Small Modular Reactors, 17-2 Nuclear
Waste Management, 17-3 New NPP Designs &Passive Systems, 17-4 Next Generation NPPs, 17-5
Standards & Codes, V & V, 17-6 Fukushima Daiichi
Accident Issues, 17-7 Variety of Severe AccidentManagement, 17-8 Nuclear Industry Initiatives, 17-9

ICONE21 was a successful event, and I believe that
ICONE22 will also be an excellent conference.

Akihiro Matsuda
University of Tsukuba
a_matsuda@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp

View of Chengdu city

Conference banquet

9th UK-Japan Seminar on Multi-Phase Flows 2013
September 16-18, 2013, Brunel University London, UK
http://dea.brunel.ac.uk/smpf13/
by Tassos G. Karayiannis and Yuichi Murai
followed eight successful meetings in Japan and UK
as seen below:
Nottingham, UK, Chaired by Professors Serizawa
and Azzopardi (1995)
Kyoto, Japan, Chaired by Professors Serizawa andAzzopardi (1997)
London, UK, Chaired by Professors Issa and

The 9th UK-Japan Seminar on Multiphase Flows washeld at Brunel University London, UK on the
16th-18th of September 2013. The present
two-country seminar was chaired by Professor Tassos
Karayiannis, Brunel University and co-chaired byProfessor Yuichi Murai, Hokkaido University. The
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400th anniversary of British-Japan relations since thearrival of the very first British ship at Nagasaki,
Japan in 1613. This was one of motivations to holdthis seminar in London, 2013.
The main focus of the seminar is on two-phaseflows and covers research from the micro to themacro scales. An in-depth understanding of thefundamental issues involving the prevailing flow
patterns and heat transfer mechanisms is essential for
appropriate industrial applications. Other areas of
two-phase systems including pool boiling andenhancement methods were included. Twenty five
topics were presented and discussed by the UK
participants and fourteen topics by the Japaneseparticipants. In addition, the chairs invited Professors
S. Kandlikar from the USA and A. Luke from
Germany to talk about their work on flow boiling in
microchannels and on the influence of microstructureon phase change phenomena bringing the total
number of presentation to forty one.
The thirty minute sessions over the three day
period allowed a detailed presentation by the

Serizawa (1999)
Bury St Edmunds, UK, Chaired by Professors
Hishida and Issa (2001)
Surrey, UK, Chaired by Professors Hagiwara andSmith (2003)
Osaka, Japan, Chaired by Professors Ozawa and B.
Azzopardi (2005)
Nottingham, UK, Chaired by Professors Azzopardi
and Ozawa (2007)
Sapporo, Japan, Chaired by Professors Murai and
Azzopardi (2010)
This is a very select gathering of experts in
multiphase systems for a very intensive andinformative meeting. The success of the seminars isclearly evident by the continuous and regularmeetings since the inaugural event in Nottingham in
1995. The main purpose of the meetings is tofacilitate research at the highest calibre that could
benefit both the academic and the industrial
communities of Japan and the UK. New Japan-UK
collaborations and spin off projects resulted from thepast discussions and seminars. The year 2013 was theParticipants in front of the bronze statue of Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Recent work on instrumentation and measurement
for multiphase flows was also presented. Professor G.
Hewitt presented a special lecture on the exceptional
contribution of Professor David Kenning (Oxford,
Brunel) “Always on the Boil: An appreciation of thework of David Kenning”.

participants and useful discussion. The topics coveredby these presentations included boiling heat transfer
in micro-scale systems, theory for bubble dynamics
and microbubble characteristics and molecularscience of phase change. Research work was alsopresented on the thermal-hydraulics of coolants,
gas-liquid interfacial kinematics, turbulent two-phaseflow dynamics, drag reduction using two-phase flows,
numerical approaches for complex interfacial physics,
nonlinearity of particulate flows, droplet atomization,
optical and thermo-chemical coupling phenomena.

Prof. Tassos G. Karayiannis
E-mail: tassos.karayiannis@brunel.ac.uk
Prof. Yuichi Murai
E-mail: murai@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

The 12th International Conference on Fluid Control, Measurements and Visualization,
November 18-23, 2013, Nara, Japanby Shusaku Harada
The 12th International Conference on Fluid Control,
Measurements and Visualization (FLUCOME 2013)was held in Nara city, Japan from November 18 to 23,
2013. The conference was conducted by organizing
committee chaired by Prof. Kagawa (Tokyo Inst.
Tech.) and was supported by the Visualization
Society of Japan (VSJ) as a main sponsor, JSPS, SICE,JSME as technical co-sponsors and many companies
as exhibition sponsors.
As introduced in invited talk by Prof. Nakayama,
this conference has a history of 30 years. The first
conference was held in Japan in 1985 and then it has
taken place in many countries in Europe, Asia andNorth America. The main theme of FLUCOME 2013is "Contribution of fluid control, measurement andvisualization to sustainable society". Many
researchers from 22 countries (Asia, Europe, Russia,
USA, Arab, etc.) participated in the conference anddiscussed issues on fluid control and measurement.
Nara is located in the center of Japan and is close
to both Kyoto and Osaka. There are many historicalplaces and structures in Nara city since it was thecapital of Japan until the 8th century. The conference
venue is Nara prefecture new public hall located in
Nara park. As can be seen in Photo 1, the over 1000
wild deer roams freely in the park. This is because
Nara citizens traditionally consider deer as sacred one.
The conference participants came to the venue
enjoying the communication with deer every morning.
The conference was consist of 19 organizedsessions (Measurement technique, Numericalsimulation, Oil hydraulics, Drag reduction,
Multiphase flow, Robotics and mechatronics, etc.), 4
memorial sessions and 3 invited talks. The invited talk
was held in Noh theatre (classical Japanese musicaltheatre). Prof. Umezu (Waseda Univ), Prof.

Photo 1: Nara prefecture new public hall

Photo 2: Invited talk in Noh theatre
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ICeM NEWSLETTER No.41 (2014) / The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flowwelcome party was held in Nara national museum on
the first day and the banquet was held in Nara hotel
last night of the conference. In the banquet, theparticipants enjoyed "mizugei" (Japanese traditional
magic show using water).
FLUCOME 2013 was successfully completed bycooperation with many persons. Next FLUCOME will
be held in 2015.

Nakayama (Tokai Univ.) and Prof. Bideaux (INSA
Lyon) gave interesting talks in the Noh stage (Photo
2).
In FLUCOME 2013, the largest number of people
participated in the history of the conference. The
participants could exchange views on fluid control,and share information on recent development on
measurement and visualization techniques. In breaktime, some people walked around the neighborhoodand enjoyed sightseeing of old temples and the giant
statue of Buddha.
During the conference, we had some opportunities
to develop friendships with other researchers. The

Assoc. Prof. Shusaku Harada
Session organizer of OS Multiphase Flow
Hokkaido University, Japan
E-mail: harada@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

8th International Symposium on Measurement Techniques for Multiphase Flow
December 13-15, 2013, Guangzhou, P.R. China
By Yingna Zheng
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,
Tianjin University, Zhejiang University, Institute of
Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beihang
University, and North China Electric Power
University, P.R. China. Over 120 scholars anddelegates from P.R. China, UK, Japan, and Norway

The 8th International Symposium on Measurement
Techniques for Multiphase Flows (ISMTMF'2013)
was successfully held in Guangzhou, P.R. China,
December 13-15, 2013. This conference wasorganized by Guangdong University of Technology,
and co-organized by Southeast University,

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Velocimetry and Its Application to Bubbly
Flows Prof. Mi Wang (University of Leeds, UK):
Status of tomography-assisted multiphase flow
metering Prof. Jidong Lu (South China University ofTechnology , P.R. China): Experimental study
on the spectral characteristics of LIBS for direct

participated in the conference at Guangdong
University of Technology. The participants
discussed in depth around the conference’s topic of“the research development and techniqueprogressing of measurement techniques for
multiphase flows under the condition of modern
industry and current social development”. This
event series have allowed scientists and engineers inuniversities, industries and other fields from all over
the world to share and exchange the measurement
techniques for multiphase flows.
The International Symposium on Measurement
Techniques for Multiphase Flow was sponsored by
the Chinese Society for Measurement Techniqueson Multiphase Flow, and co-sponsored by theJapanese Society for Multiphase Flow and the
National Natural Science Foundation of China. The
conference aims at providing an academic exchange
platform to scholars, academics and engineers fromdifferent countries that engage in measurement
techniques for multiphase flows, and promoting thedevelopment of these techniques. This is the 8th
events, following the successful ISMTMF events
held previously in Nanjing, P.R. China (1995);
Beijing, P.R. China (1998); Fukui, Japan (2001);
Hangzhou, P.R. China (2004); Macau, P.R. China(2006); Okinawa, Japan (2008) and Tianjin, P.R.
China (2011), respectively. With the symposiums
were held, the level of research on measurement
techniques for multiphase flows has been developedand improved rapidly. This year’s technicalprogram includes 81 papers from more than 5different countries. 16 parallel technical sessions
were organized following six invited plenary
lectures which were given by six honorable keynote
speakers.

Fig.2 A Photo of ISMTMF’2013 Opening
CeremonyFig.3 A Photo of ISMTMF’2013 Plenary Session

 Prof. Gérard Gouesbet ( Coria Institute, INSA
Rouen,
France):Laser-based
opticalmeasurement techniques of discrete particles: areview
 Prof. Huihe Qiu (The Hong Kong Universityof Science and Technology, P.R. China): Recent
Developments on Measurement Techniques forInterfacial Dynamics in Mini/Micro Multiphase
Systems Prof. Shigeo Hosokawa (Kobe University,
Japan): Photobleaching Molecular Tagging

Fig.4 A Photo of ISMTMF’2013 Parallel Session
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Flow
 Industrial Trials of Multiphase Flowmetering
Techniques Environmental Monitoring Measurement of Bio-fluids
 Other Fields on the Measurement of MultiphaseFlowanalysis of coal particle flow Prof. Don McGlinchey (Glasgow Caledonian
University, UK): The Development And
Performance Of A Solids Mass Flow Meter For
Pneumatic Conveying Applications
The major topics of the conference include: FundamentalsofMultiphase
Flow
Measurement
 Novel Sensors and Measurement Methods ofMultiphase Systems
 Information Technology for Multiphase Flow Process Tomography and Flow Visualization
 Intelligent Instruments and Monitoring Systems
 Optical, Non-intrusive and Other Advanced
Measurement Techniques Characterization
andMeasurementofMultiphase Nanometer Flow
 Measurement of High Temperature Multiphase

The success of the conference will promote thedevelopment of measurement techniques for
multiphase flows immensely. The next conference(9th International Symposium on Measurement
Techniques for Multiphase Flows) will be held in
Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2015.
Prof. Yingna Zheng
School of Information Engineering,
Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China
E-mail: zhengyn@gdut.edu

Future Meetings
Following list includes Conference Name, Place, Date and Contact.
Beijing, China, May 19 - 22, 2014
Chinese Society of Particuology
Chair: Prof. Jinghai Li (Chinese Academy of Science)
Co-Chair:Prof. Junji Cao (Chinese Academy of Science)Prof. Yunfa Chen (Chinese Academy of Science)
Pfor. Yulong Ding (Chinese Academy of Science)Prof. Qingshan Zhu (Chinese Academy of Science)
Tel: 86-10-62647657
E-mail: wcpt7@home.ipe.ac.cn
http://www.wcpt7.org/

Computational Engineering and Science for Safety
and Environmental Problems (COMPSAFE 2014)
Sendai, Japan, April 13 - 16, 2014
http://www.compsafe2014.org/
2014 the 3rd International Conference on Fluid
Dynamics and Thermodynamics Technologies(FDTT 2014)
Antalya, Turkey, April 21 - 23, 2014
Chair: Dr. Mahir Dursun (Gazi University)
Tel: 86-28-86527868
E-mail: fdtt@iacsit.org
http://www.fdtt.org/

International Conference on Energy Systems
Engineering and Technology (ICESET 2014)
New York, USA, June 5 - 6, 2014
http://www.waset.org/conferences/2014/newyork/iceset/

The 5th International Conference on Heat
Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale(HTFFM-V)
Marseille, France, April 22 - 26, 2014
Chair: Prof. Lounes Tadrist (Aix Marseille
University)
Co-Chair: Prof. Irina Graur (Aix Marseille
University)
E-mail: contact@htffm-v.fr
http://www.htffm-v.fr

11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat
Transfer Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, June 16 - 20, 2014
https://www.aiaa.org/EventDetail.aspx?id=18644
2014 ANS Annual Meeting
Reno, NV, June 15 - 19, 2014
Grand Sierra Resort
Chair: Prof. John J. Grossenbacher (Idaho National

7th World Congress on Particle Technology(WCPT-7)
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Professor Clayton T. Crowe
Chicago, USA, August 3 - 7, 2014
http://www.asmeconferences.org/FEDSM2014/

Laboratory)
http://www.new.ans.org/meetings/c_1
The 16th International Symposium on Flow
Visualization (ISFV16)
Okinawa, Japan, June 24 - 28, 2014
Chair: Prof. Koji Okamoto (The University of Tokyo)
E-mail: info@isfv.org
http://www.isfv.org

15th International Heat Transfer Conference(IHTC-15)
Kyoto, Japan, August 10 - 15, 2014
Chair:
N. Kasagi, Japan Sci. & Tech. Agency
Vice Chair:
H. Yoshida, Kyoto University
S. Maruyama, Tohoku University
E-mail: info@ihtc-15.org
http://www.ihtc-15.org

Eurotherm Seminar 101 - Transport Phenomena
in Multiphase Systems
Krakow, Poland , June 30 - July 3, 2014
http://www.heat2014.agh.edu.pl

4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference
London, UK, September 7 - 10, 2014
E-mail: mnf-2014@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.mnf2014.com/

10th International conference on Advances in
Fluid Mechanics
A Coruña, Spain, July 1-3, 2014
Chairs:Prof. C. A Brebbia (Wessex Institute of Technology)
Prof. S. Hernandez (University of A Coruña)
Prof. M. Rahman (Dalhousie University, Canada)
E-mail: imoreno@wessex.ac.uk
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/14-conferences/afm-2014.ht
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2nd Frontiers in Computational Physics
Conference : Energy Sciences
Zurich, Switzerland, September 8 - 11, 2014
Chair: Prof. P. Koumoutsakos (ETH Zurich)
http://www.frontiersincomputationalphysics.com
5thInternational
Workshopon
Process
Tomography (IWPT5)
Jeju Island, South Korea, September 16 - 18, 2014
E-mail: iwpt5@jejunu.ac.kr
http://iwpt5.org/jeju2014/main/main.php

Heat Transfer 2014
A Coruña, Spain, July 2 - 4, 2014
Chair:
Prof. B. Sunden (Lund University of Technology)
Pfor. C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institute of Technology)
Tel/Fax: 44-238-029-3223/44-238-029-2853
E-mail: imoreno@wexxex.ac.jp
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/heat2014

13th International Conference Multiphase Flow in
Industrial Plant
Sestri Levante, Italy, September 17 - 19, 2014
http://www.animp.it/mfip2014/index.html

17th International Symposium on Applications ofLaser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics
Lison, Portugal, July 7 - 10, 2014
22nd International Conference on
Engineering (ICONE22)
Prague, Czech Republid, July 7 - 11, 2014
http://www.asmeconferences.org/icone22/

9th International Conference on Two-Phase
Systems for Space and Ground Applications
Baltimore, MD, USA, September 22 - 26, 2014
Chair: Prof. J. Kim (UMD)
E-mail: ittw2014@gmail.com
http://ittw2014.umd.edu

Nuclear

9th International Symposium on Numerical
Analysis of Fluid Flow and  Heat Transfer Numerical Fluids Symposium 2014
Rhodes, Greece, September 22 - 28, 2014
http://www.icnaam.org/nafluids

10th International Conference on Heat Transfer,
Fluid
Mechanics
andThermodynamics(HEFAT2014)
Orlando, USA, July 14 - 16, 2014
Chair: Prof. J. P. Mayer (University of Pretoria)
http://edas.info/web/hefat2014/home.html

2nd International Symposium on MultiscaleMultiphase Process Engineering (MMPE)
Hamburg, Germany, September 24 - 27, 2014
Chair: Prof. M. Schluter (Hamburg University ofTechnology)
http://www.processnet.org/MMPE14.html

4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering
Summer Meeting / 12th International Conferenceon
Nanochannels,
Microchannels,
andMinichannels / 14th International Symposium on
Gas-Particle Flows - Dedicated to the Memory of
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Chair: Dr. Chul-Hwa Song (KAERI)
http://www.nthas9.org/

The 4th Asian Conference on Innovative Energy
and Environmental Chemical Engineering(ASCON-IEEChE)
Yeosu, Korea, November 9 - 12, 2014
Chair: Prof. Yong Kang (Chungnam National
University)
E-mail: choijhoo@konkuk.ac.kr
http://www.ascon-ieeche2014.org

10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear
Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety(NUTHOS-10)
Okinawa, Japan, December 14 - 18, 2014
http://www.nuthos10.org--------------- 2015 ---------------

2014 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear
Technology Expo
Anaheim, CA, USA, November 9 - 13, 2014
Disney Resort & Hotel
Chair: Prof. Ed Halpin (PG&E)
http://www.new.ans.org/meetings/c_1

9th ECI Conference on Boiling and Condensation
Heat Transfer
Boulder, CO, USA, April 26 - May 1, 2015
Chair: Prof. J. Kim (UMD)
The 23rd International Conference on Nuclear
Engineering(ICONE23)
Chiba, Japan, May 17 - 20, 2015

ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering
Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2014)
Montreal, Canada, November 14 - 20, 2014
https://www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2014/

12th International Conference on PowerEngineering 2015(ICOPE 2015)
Yokohama, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 2015
Chair: Prof.M.Osakabe (Tokyo Univ. Marine Scienceand Tech.)

9th Korea-Japan Symposium Nuclear Thermal
Hydraulics and Safety (NTHAS9)
Buyeo, Korea, November 16 - 19, 2014

Executive Division of The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow (2013)
President
Vice Presidents

K. Hishida (Keio University)
M. Mori (Hokkaido University)
T. Takamasa (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
H. Umekawa (Kansai University)

Chair of Informatics Division
H. Umekawa (Kansai University)
Chair of Planning Division
M. Kureta (JAEA)
Chair of International Intercourse Division
T. Okawa (The University of Electro-Communications)
Chair of General Affairs Division
S. Takagi (The University of Tokyo)
Executive Office of JSMF:
Academic Publication & Printings Co.
2-14-9 Kasugadenaka, Konohana-ku, Osaka, 554-0022, JAPANTel : +81-6-6466-1588 Fax : +81-6-6463-2522
E-mail : office@jsmf.gr.jp
WWW homepage : http://www.jsmf.gr.jp/

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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
Jii Draho
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 Celata
Paolo di Marco
Alfredo Soldati

KOREA
Moo Hwan Kim
KINSSang Yong Lee
KAIST
Chul-Hwa SongKAERINETHERLAND
J.A.M. (Hans) Kuipers
Eindhoven University of Technology
Robert Mudde
Delft University of Technology
NORWAY
Ole Nydal
NTNU
RUSSIA
Sergey V. Alekseenko
Novosibirsk State University
SLOVENIA
Iztok unUniversity of Ljubljana
SPAIN
Carlos Martinez-Bazan
University of Jaén
SWEDEN
Henryk Anglart
Royal Institute of Technology
SWITZERLAND
Horst-Michael Prasser
ETH Zürich
John R. Thome
EPFL
TAIWAN
Chih-Chen Chen
National Tsing Hua University
TURKEYCan Fuat Delale
Isik University
UK
Panagiota Angeli
University College London
Barry Azzopardi
University of Nottingham
Tassos G. Karayiannis
Brunel University
Omar K. Matar
Imperial College London
Mike Reeks
Newcastle University
USA
Steven L. Ceccio
University of Michigan
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis
University of Florida
Vijay K. Dhir
University of California, Los Angeles
John K. Eaton
Stanford University
Rodney O. Fox
Iowa State University
Dimitri Gidaspow
Illinois Institute of Technology
Yassin A. Hassan
Texas A & M University
Takashi Hibiki
Purdue University
Melany Hunt
California Institute of Technology
Satish Kandlikar
Rochester Institute of Technology
Masahiro Kawaji
City College of Newyork City
Jungho Kim
University of Maryland
Ellen K. Longmire
University of Minnesota
Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides
Texas Christian University
Michael Podowski
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteGretar Tryggvason
University of Notre Dame

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Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
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RepublicLEGI,CNRS and University Grenoble Alpes
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IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRS
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University Pierre et Marie CurieHZDR
TU Hamburg-Harburg
Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Thessaly
Indian Institute of Technology
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ENEA
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