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The International Information Center for Multiphase Flow

NEWSLETTER
No. 45, March 2016
The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow
9th International Symposium on Measurement Techniques for Multiphase Flows (ISMTMF)
September 23-25, 2015, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
by Yuichi Murai
The 9th international symposium on Measurement Techniques for Multiphase Flows(ISMTMF) was held at Hokkaido University,
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The symposium wasorganized by The Japanese Society for Multiphase
Flow (JSMF), and co-organized by The Japan Societyof Mechanical Engineers (JSME), The Chinese
Society of Measurement Techniques on Multiphase
Flow, National Natural Science Foundation of P.R.
China, and The Visualization Society of Japan,
sponsored by Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido
University. The symposium chair was Prof. Yuichi
Murai (reporter), with help of two co-chairs, Prof.
Xiaoshu Cai (Shanghai Univ. Sci. Tech.) and Prof.
Shigeo Hosokawa (Kobe University).
The ISMTMF is the symposium in the field of
measurement technique challengingly designed andextended to complex multiphase flow systems. It
covers wide subjects from basic science to industry
aiming at new findings of multiphase fluid dynamics

as well as responding to requirements in multiphaseindustries. The ISMTMF series have 20 years ofhistory since South-East University in Nanjing, China,
held the first meeting in 1995. In the past three
symposia from 6th to 8th rounds, number ofparticipants exceeded 100 due to recent worldwide
demands particularly for environmental issues. In thepresent 9th symposium, therefore, the chair andco-chairs called for papers putting priority onto two
topical fields, water treatment and particulate mattermeasurement.
There were 121 technical presentations madeduring the three-day symposium, including threeplenary lectures given by Dr. Sven Eckert, Dr.
Yingxiang Wu, and Dr. Yasushi Saito. Also, six
keynote speakers were selected from participants,
who were Dr. Chuanglong Xu, Dr. K. Tsuchiya, Dr.
M. Takei, Dr. Zhiqiang Sun, Dr. Jun Yao, and Dr. T.
Sanada. All individual achievements were edited into
the book of extended abstracts of non-USB type in

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Chairperson (Editor):
Prof. Kenji Katoh

Members:
Prof. Shu TakagiProf. Tatsurou Wakimoto

Faculty of Engineering
Osaka City University
Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585
Tel: +81-6-6605-2665
Fax:+81-6-6605-2663
E-mail:katoh@mech.eng.osaka-cu.ac.jp

The University of Tokyo
E-mail:takagi@mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Osaka City University
E-mail:wakimoto@mech.eng.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Prof. Daisuke ItoProf. Yasutaka Yamaguchi

Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute Osaka University

E-mail:itod@rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

E-mail:yamaguchi@mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

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The number, 167, has been the largest ever in thisseries.
Fortunately, weather was perfect in Sapporo only
during the symposium dates so that people enjoyedlunches in patio and walking around in Sapporo. A
mini-excursion was to take 130 participants on threebuses to Sapporo Winter Olympic museum where
they were chair-lifted up to the starting point oflarge-hill ski jumpers. In banquet held at Sapporo TV
Tower restaurant, funny prizewinners wereannounced to the guests from the local organizing
committee to three very special persons; the earliest
submitter of the abstract, the first payer of theregistration fee, and the person traveled from thelongest distance. Separately, official certificates ofbest presentation were awarded to three students inthe closing ceremony. The 10th ISMTMF is to beheld in Hong Kong, China, in 2018.

Photo 1 Group photo on 24th Sept. 2015

Photo 2 Inter-society meeting discussing future vision
Yuichi Murai
Symposium Chair of the 9th ISMTMF
Hokkaido University
E-mail: murai@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

order to promote handy information exchange among
the participants. Total number of the participants was
167 come from nine countries; China, Japan, UK,
Germany, Spain, Korea, France, Russia, and Poland.

7th European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting
October 11-15, 2015, Zermatt, Switzerland
by John R. Thome
There was a large turnout with participants
numbering 90 (including spouses) with largedelegations from both Europe and Japan. There were
3 Keynote Speakers and 65 presentations. The
keynote lectures were given by the following invited
speakers: Prof. Iztok Zun (University of Ljubljana,Prof. Masahiro Kawaji (City University of New York)and Prof. Neima Brauner (Tel-Aviv University). The
65 papers were divided up into sessions ofExperimental, Modeling, Numerical, Visualization
and Devices. As the theme of this meeting is recent
and ongoing work on two-phase flow and two-phaseheat transfer, full papers and extended abstracts wereboth accepted, and all were provided to theparticipants as a proceedings on a memory stick.

The 7th European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow
Group Meeting was held at the Hotel Beau Site,
Zermatt, Switzerland from October 11-15, 2015. It
was chaired by Prof. John R. Thome with Dr. Ricardo
Lima as the conference secretary (Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL). The
Japanese co-chairs were Prof. Tomoji Takamasa(Tokyo University of Marine Science andTechnology) and Prof. Akio Tomiyama (Kobe
University) and the European co-chairs were Prof.
Iztok Zun (University of Ljubljana), Prof. Paolo di
Marco (University of Pisa) and Dr. Gian Piero Celata(ENEA). Sponsorships were received from theFaculty of Engineering (STI) and the Institute of
Mechanical Engineering (IGM) of the EPFL.
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Photo 1 View of Matterhorn at sunrise on Monday
morning from hotel veranda.

Photo 2 Photo of 7th EJTPFGM 2015 participants.

The conference was held at one of the foremost
mountain resort towns in the Swiss Alps, namely
Zermatt, which is only accessible by train as Zermatt
allows no private car traffic, and that lies in the valley
below the Matterhorn in the Canton Valais near the
Italian border. All participants stayed at theconference hotel, the Beau Site Park Hotel, enjoying
all meals together in the hotel over the course of theconference.
The meeting began on Sunday afternoon with thefirst Keynote lecture by Prof. Kawaji, followed by the
first session of papers and a standup evening dinner.
Monday began with the Keynote lecture by Prof.
Brauner and was followed by sessions the rest of the
day with an evening dinner. The Tuesday schedule
was inversed with first the sessions and then the
Keynote lecture of Prof. Zun to end the day. The
Conference Chair (John Thome) and Co-Chairs(Tomoji Takamasa, Akio Tomiyama and Paolo di
Marco) presented a plaque to Prof. Zun tocommemorate
his
hosting
of
the
first
European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meetingin Portoroz in Slovenia in 1998 and this was followedby an aperitif to celebrate his 69th birthday.
Wednesday had morning and late afternoon sessions,highlighted by a midday excursion by cogwheel train
up to the Gornergat at 3200 meters for lunch and amountain top walk in the beautiful sunshine above
the clouds and a firsthand look at the Matterhorn andsurrounding mountains and valleys. Thursday
morning, the participants were greeted to a lightblanket of snow that fell during the night.
The 8th Japanese-European Two-Phase Flow
Group Meeting will be held in 2018 in New York cityand hosted by Prof. Masahiro Kawaji (CUNY).
John R. Thome, Professor
Laboratory of Heat and MassTransfer (LTCM)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
E-mail: john.thome@epfl.ch

Future Meetings
Following list includes conference name, place, date and contact information.
The First Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering
Conference
Waikoloa, USA, March 13 - 17, 2016
Chair: Yasuyuki Takata ( Kyushu Univ.)
Co-Chair: Sung Jin Kim (KAIST)
Co-Chair: Yong X. Tao (University of North Texas)
http://www.jsme.or.jp/ted/PRTEC2016/index.html

2016 International Conference on Sustainable
Energy, Environment and Information
Engineering (SEEIE 2016)
Bangkok, Thailand, March 20 - 21, 2016
Chair: B. Saha (University of Burdwan)
http://www.seeie2016.org/

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The World Congress on Momentum, Heat andMass Transfer (MHMT '16)
Prague, Czech Republic, April 4 - 5, 2016
Chair: Pedro Coelho (University of Lisbon)
Co-Chair: Stefan Becker (Friedrich Alexander
University Erlangen-Nuremberg )http://mhmtcongress.com/

12th International Conference on Heat Transfer,
Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT
2016)
Costa del Sol, Malaga, Spain, July 11 - 13, 2016
Chair: Josua P. Meyer (University of Pretoria, South
Africa)http://edas.info/web/hefat2016/index.html

9th International Conference on Multiphase Flow
(ICMF 2016)
Firenze, Italy, May 22 - 27, 2016
Chair: Jacques Magnaudet (Institut de Mecanique desFluides de Toulouse)
Chair: Alfredo Soldati (University of Udine)
http://www.aidic.it/icmf2016/index.html

9th International Conference on Computational
Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD 9)
Istanbul, Turkey, July 11 - 15, 2016
Chair: Alim Rüstem Aslan (Istanbul Technical
University)
Chair: Ayşe Gül Güngör (Istanbul Technical
University)
Chair: İlyas Bedii Özdemİr (Istanbul Technical
University)
http://iccfd9.itu.edu.tr/

9th International Conference on Computational
Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT 2016)
Cracow, Poland, May 23 - 26, 2016
Chair: J.Taler (Cracow Univesity of Technology)
http://icchmt.pk.edu.pl/

4th IAHR Europe Congress
Liege, Belgium, July 27 - 29, 2016
Chair: Benjamin Dewals (University of Liege)
http://www.iahr2016.ulg.ac.be/

The 2016 International Conference on Energy,
Environment, Ecosystems, and Development(EEED 2016)
Riga, Latvia, May 28 - 30, 2016
Chair: Klimis Ntalianis (Tech. Educ. Inst. of Athens)
http://www.inase.org/conferences/2016/riga/eeed.htm

11th International Conference on Advances in
Fluid Mechanics (AFM 2016)
Ancona, Italy, September 5 - 7, 2016
Chair: C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institute)
Chair: M. Rahman (Dalhousie University)
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2016/afm-2016

The 4th Cavitation Workshop
Chania, Crete, May 30 - June 1, 2016
Chair: Manolis Gavaises (City University London)
http://iicr2016.net/

14th International Conference on Simulation andExperiments in Heat Transfer and its Applications
Ancona, Italy, September 7 - 9, 2016
Chair: B. Sunden (Lund University)
Chair: C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institute)
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2016/heat-transfer-2016

10th North American Conference Multiphase 2016
Banff, Canada, June 8 - 10, 2016
Chair: Tom Danielson (ConocoPhillips)
https://www.eventsforce.net/bhr/frontend/reg/thome.c
sp?pageID=30807&ef_sel_menu=889&eventID=100&eventID=100

7th International Conference on Vortex Flows andVortex Models (ICVFVM 2016)
Rostock, Germany, September 20 - 22, 2016
Chair: Nikolai Kornev (University of Rostock,Germany)
http://www.icvfvm2016.uni-rostock.de/icvfvm-2016/

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering(ICONE 24)
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, June 26 - 30, 2016
Chair: Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M University)
Co-Chair: Robert Stakensborghs ( ILD )https://www.asme.org/events/icone

27th International Symposium on Transport
Phenomena (ISTP 27)
Honolulu, USA, September 20 - 23, 2016
Chair: Toshio Tomimura ( Kumamoto University)
Co-Chair: Kazuyoshi Fushinobu (Tokyo Institute ofTechnology)
Co-Chair: Tomoyuki Hatakeyama (Toyama
Prefectural University
http://www.istp27.jp/index.html

30th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas
Dynamics (RGD 30)
Victoria BC, Canada, July 10 - 15, 2016
Chair: Andrew Ketsdever (University of Colorado)
http://rgd30.engr.uvic.ca/

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1st Workshop on Advances in CFD and MD
modelling of Interface Dynamics in Capillary
Two-Phase Flows
Lausanne, Switzerland, October 3 - 7, 2016
Chair: J. R. Thome (EPFL)
Chair: M. Magnini (EPFL)
Chair: A. Ferrari (EPFL)
Chair: B. A. Nichita (EPFL)
Chair: E. Gros (EPFL)
http://ltcm.epfl.ch/page-127462-en.html
The Heat and Mass Transfer in Nuclear Safety
Applications: Severe Accident, Environment
Contamination, Waste Storage (HMTNS – 16)
Juan les Pins, France, October 25 - 28, 2016
Chair: F. Fichot (IRSN)
Chair: M. Quintard (IMFT)
http://www.ichmt.org/site/2/hmtns-16

The Fourth International Forum on Heat Transfer(IFHT2016)
Sendai, Japan, November 2 - 4, 2016
Chair: Taku Ohara (Tohoku University)
http://ifht2016.org/index.html
The 15th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics(ACMF 15)
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, November 21 - 23,
2016
Chair: Kannan Munisamy (UNITEN)
http://fet.mmu.edu.my/~acfm/index.htm

Executive Division of The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow (2015)
President
Vice Presidents

T. Takamasa (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
Y. Abe (University of Tsukuba)
C. Iwaki (Toshiba Corporation)
A. Tomiyama (Kobe University)

Chair of Informatics Division
K. Katoh (Osaka City University)
Chair of Planning Division
M. Watanabe (Hokkaido University)
Chair of International Intercourse Division
M. Kawaji (The City College of New York)
Chair of General Affairs Division
T. Hazuku (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
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
URL: 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
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 Celata
Paolo 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 Delale
UK
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 Hunt
Rochester 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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