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3. Major Journals

Australia
Member of ICHMT, AIHTC, AUTSE(1) Overview(Australia Standard Time: from UTC+8 to UTC+10, Population: 27.1 million)- Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering- Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering- Australasian Journal of Engineering Education
4. Awards
The AFTES offers awards such as Best Student Presentation Award and Best Paper Award at the AHMTC andthe ANCW.

5. Education (Undergraduate/Graduate)- Primary School, 6 years; High School 6 years. Undergraduate Engineering University, 4 years.
- Each University’s Engineering program is regularly accredited by the Engineers Australia Accreditation Board.
- Research-based Master’s degree have a typical duration of 2 years, while Doctorate program (PhD) runs inaverage for 3.5 to 4 years to complete.

6. University system.
1. Organizations
Engineers Australia is the national forum for the advancement of engineering and the professional developmentof our members. With more than 100,000 members embracing all disciplines of the engineering team, Engineers
Australia is the largest and most diverse professional body for engineers in Australia.

There are approximately 40 universities in Australia which are mostly publicly funded. Most Universities
in Australia offer Engineering degrees and courses. The best-known Australian universities are the Group ofEight Universities comprising Australia's most research-intensive institutions including the University ofAdelaide, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, UNSW
Sydney, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia.

The Heat and Mass Transfer and Thermal Fluid Mechanics community in Australia is represented by Australasian
Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society (AFTES). The general mission of the Society is to promote and foster
the understanding and application of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and related subjects
within Australasia to the general benefit of the community at large. The society publishes an occasional newsletterand runs conferences, workshops and seminars.
2. Major meetings
The Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (AHMTC) series, initiated in 1973, are organised under
the auspices of the AFTES. It provides a research forum for disseminating new knowledge to the Heat and Mass
Transfer research community and for networking and exchanging research ideas. The AHMTC series covers both
fundamental and applied topics in broad areas of convection, conduction, radiation, turbulence, multi-phase flow,combustion, drying, heat exchangers, computational and experimental methods, and other significant thermal
processes in built environment and in environmental and industrial processes.

The academic positions are lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor. Further information
about Australian universities may be found on the Universities Australia web site.

7. Common Scientific Research Funding Agencies

Previous AHMTC conferences were held in Melbourne (1973, 1985, 2011, 2018), Sydney (1977, 1996),Christchurch (1989), Brisbane (1993, 2016), Townsville (2000) and Perth (2005). While the AHMTC is mainly
based in Australia and New Zealand, the previous conferences have attracted high-profile international keynote
and invited speakers and a significant number of international participants from US, Europe, China, Canada, Japan,Malaysia and Singapore etc. We welcome researchers from all over the world to participate in the conferences.

- Australian Research Council (ARC)- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)- Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)- Cooperative Research Centres (CRC)

The 12th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (AHMTC) will be held in Sydney on 30 June to 1 July
2022. Please visit the AHMTC website for further information.

8. Major Federal Public Research Institutes

In addition to the AHMTC series, the Australasian Natural Convection Workshops (ANCW) are held regularlyfor a focused interest group. The most recent one, the 11ANCW, was held in Sydney. AFTES members also
actively participate in the biennial Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conferences (AFMC). The next AFMC
conference will also be held in Sydney.

11- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)- Defense Science and Technology Group (DSTG)

by Victoria Timchenko (ICHMT, AIHTC) and Chengwang Lei (AUTSE)

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Australia, Member of ICHMT, AIHTC, AUTSE (2)1. Report on the 12th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference(12AHMTC)
Chengwang Lei
1. Report on the 12th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (12AHMTC)
Chengwang Lei
Chair of the 12AHMTCSchool of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney
Chengwang.Lei@sydney.edu.ausydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/chengwang-lei.html
The Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (AHMTC) is typically a bi-annual
research forum in Australia and New Zealand organised under the auspices of the Australasian Fluid andThermal Engineering Society (AFTES) for disseminating new knowledge to the Heat and Mass Transfer
research community. This conference series covers both fundamental and applied topics in the broad areas ofconvection, conduction, radiation, turbulence, multi-phase flow, combustion, drying, heat exchangers,
computational methods, experimental methods, and other significant thermal processes in environmental andindustrial settings.
The 12th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (12AHMTC, https://12ahmtc-eng.sydney.edu.au/) wasinitially planned for July 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Sydney, it was postponed to2022. Thanks to the improved pandemic situation in Australia and globally, the 12AHMTC was successfully
held in person on 30 June – 1 July 2022 at The University of Sydney, New South Wales. For many of theparticipants, the 12AHMTC was the first in-person conference for more than two years. The 12AHMTC
attracted significant interest from researchers and research students. In total 80+ abstracts and 60+ full papers
were received. Among them, 42 papers were accepted for presentation over the two-day conference. In addition,
there were 4 keynote and invited lectures given by high-calibre researchers including Prof Atsuki Komiya (Tohoku University), Possibility of Mass Diffusion Control: Effect of Pore Sizeof Separated Membrane Prof Gary Rosengarten (RMIT University), When Surfaces Matter: Using Nano-scaled Surface
Features to Control Macro-scale Transport Prof Emilie Sauret (Queensland University of Technology), Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Method for
Viscoelastic Fluid Flow Instabilities and Elastic Turbulence Dr Nicholas Williamson (The University of Sydney), Turbulent Vertical Natural Convection BoundaryLayers – Insights Gained from DNS up to Grd = 1.8×108
The 12AHMTC was attended by over 50 participants. A significant number of the participants were research
students. The conference presented two Best Student Presentation Awards, judged by an Award Committee.
The winners of the Best Student Presentation Awards at the 12AHMTC are Ms Sneha Murali, Monash University
 Mr Bihai Sun, Monash University
The success of the 12AHMTC is a result of the combined efforts of the many involved. Primarily I wish toacknowledge the deep commitment from the Local Organising Committee members: Professors StevenArmfield and John Patterson, Associate Professor Michael Kirkpatrick, Dr Kapil Chauhan, Associate Professor
Victoria Timchenko and Professor Guan Yeoh. I also gratefully acknowledge the participation by the keynote
and invited speakers and thank them for their outstanding presentations, and further extend my thanks to all
the other authors who presented their work, without whom we would not have the conference.
The next AHMTC conference (13AHMTC) will be hosted by Curtin University in 2025.

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