The 15th International Heat Transfer Conference
August 10-15, 2014, Kyoto, Japan

Organizing Committee
Chair
Nobuhide Kasagi
Vice Chair
Hideo Yoshida
Shigenao Maruyama
Executive Committee
Chair
Hideo Yoshida
Vice Chair
Tomoaki Kunugi
Secretary General
Hiroshi Iwai
Int. Scientific Committee
Chair
Shigenao Maruyama
Vice Chair
Yasuyuki Takata
Secretary
Atsuki Komiya
Advisory Board
Nobuyuki Araki
Shintaro Enya
Yasunobu Fujita
Yujiro Hayashi
Hiroshi Kawamura
Sadanari Mochizuki
Fumimaru Ogino
Yasutaka Nagano
Masahiro Shoji
Ayao Tsuge
AIHTCPresident
Avram Bar-Cohen
Vice PresidentNobuhide Kasagi
Secretary
Hideo Yoshida
Delegates
Steven Armfield
John A. Reizes
Luiz Fernando Milanez
Helcio Rangel Barreto Orlande
Patrick H. Oosthuizen
Sylvain Coulombe
Xing Zhang
ChongFang MaDenis Maillet
Sebastian Volz
Stephan Kabelac
Ulrich Gross
Ravi B. Grover
S. Srinivasa Murthy
Gad Hetsroni
Neima Brauner
Gian Piero Celata
Maurizio Cumo
Shigenao Maruyama
Sung Jin Kim
Goon-Cherl Park
Pedro Coelho
Vitor A. F. Costa
Alexander I. Leontiev
Leonid A. Dombrovsky
C.G. du Toit
Josua P. Meyer
Dimos Poulikakos
John Richard Thome
Theo H. van der Meer
Anton A. Van Steenhoven
Adrian Briggs
Geoffrey F. Hewitt
Michael Jensen
Mohamed S. El-Genk

August 18, 2014

Dear Participants and Colleagues,

Thank you very much for your participation and cooperation to the 15th
International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-15) in Kyoto.
According to the Conference Program, it was started with the two special events
open to the public on August 9th and followed by the technical sessions and social
programs until August 15th. Although the arrival of an unexpected typhoon
affected the travel of some participants on the 9th and 10th, the weather was stable
at moderate temperatures throughout the conference period. With about 1,200participants joining from more than 40 countries, two plenary invited lectures, 29
keynote lectures, two panels and 699 rigorously reviewed papers were presented.
The four international awards were presented at the banquet on the 14th. I am verymuch pleased to note that every event and session has been carried out as plannedwith your professional services and supports.
We aimed that the Conference would be an excellent opportunity for participants toget together, exchange the state-of-the-art knowledge, and develop their human
network in a very friendly and comfortable environment. Therefore, we set forth animportant question about the role of thermal science in meeting societal challenges
as a grand theme of the Conference and encouraged discussion in a broader
framework during the Conference. We employed oral presentation for the general
papers instead of posters to facilitate essential Q&As. A small USB card was used
to contain all papers without bulky printed proceedings. We provided a free Wi-Fi
access in every room and the EventMobile app for mobile device users to access tovarious information, and also tried to get quality Japanese foods, “Washoku.” The
Program Booklet was another particular effort to make it easy to find parallelsession programs and any information needed for one’s stay. I hope all of theparticipants have enjoyed these arrangements.
Although the Conference was over, I would like to encourage you to keep visiting
the following Conference web site at your convenience:
http://www.ihtc-15.org/
where additional materials will be uploaded once they are ready. For example,presentation slides and summary reports of the two panel discussions will be madeavailable soon. We are also going to upload photographic records of various
technical and social events during the Conference, so that you can remind the timewith your friends you must have enjoyed in Kyoto. When they are available, youwill receive notification from my colleagues. Please note that all general papers
will be archived in the IHTC Digital Library of Begell House Inc., and you will beable to access them with your password fixed at the time of your registration to theIHTC-15.

Organized by The Heat Transfer Society of Japan, and The Science Council of Japan
Under the auspices of The Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences (AIHTC)
Supported by The International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, The Japan Society of MechanicalEngineers, and The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
Website: http://www.ihtc-15.org/index.html / E-mail: info@ihtc-15.org

The 15th International Heat Transfer Conference
August 10-15, 2014, Kyoto, Japan

Organizing Committee
Chair
Nobuhide Kasagi
Vice Chair
Hideo Yoshida
Shigenao Maruyama
Executive Committee
Chair
Hideo Yoshida
Vice Chair
Tomoaki Kunugi
Secretary General
Hiroshi Iwai
Int. Scientific Committee
Chair
Shigenao Maruyama
Vice Chair
Yasuyuki Takata
SecretaryAtsuki Komiya
Advisory Board
Nobuyuki Araki
Shintaro Enya
Yasunobu Fujita
Yujiro Hayashi
Hiroshi Kawamura
Sadanari Mochizuki
Fumimaru Ogino
Yasutaka Nagano
Masahiro Shoji
Ayao Tsuge
AIHTC
President
Avram Bar-Cohen
Vice President
Nobuhide Kasagi
Secretary
Hideo Yoshida
Delegates
Steven Armfield
John A. Reizes
Luiz Fernando Milanez
Helcio Rangel Barreto Orlande
Patrick H. Oosthuizen
Sylvain Coulombe
Xing Zhang
ChongFang Ma
Denis Maillet
Sebastian Volz
Stephan Kabelac
Ulrich Gross
Ravi B. Grover
S. Srinivasa Murthy
Gad Hetsroni
Neima Brauner
Gian Piero Celata
Maurizio Cumo
Shigenao Maruyama
Sung Jin Kim
Goon-Cherl Park
Pedro Coelho
Vitor A. F. Costa
Alexander I. Leontiev
Leonid A. Dombrovsky
C.G. du Toit
Josua P. Meyer
Dimos Poulikakos
John Richard Thome
Theo H. van der Meer
Anton A. Van Steenhoven
Adrian Briggs
Geoffrey F. Hewitt
Michael Jensen
Mohamed S. El-Genk

So far, we have known through conversation and by e-mails that many participants
certainly enjoyed the Conference and have come back home with pleasantmemories of Kyoto. It is our enormous pleasure and, on behalf of all my Japanesecolleagues, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to your great contributions
and supports.
The evaluation of the Kyoto Conference should be fixed in the long history of theIHTCs, but it seems at this moment that our small challenges to reform the IHTC in
Kyoto have been favorably received by many participants. I hope the future IHTC
will even more develop to be a conference contributing to the advancement ofthermal science and also to the sustainable development of global society.
We are looking forward to seeing you all again in the not far future, surely at theIHTC-16 in Beijing, 2018.
Sincerely yours,

Signature of NK
Nobuhide Kasagi, Conference Chair
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Deputy Director-General/Principal Fellow, CRDS, Japan Science and Technology
AgencyOrganized by The Heat Transfer Society of Japan, and The Science Council of Japan
Under the auspices of The Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences (AIHTC)
Supported by The International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, The Japan Society of MechanicalEngineers, and The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
Website: http://www.ihtc-15.org/index.html / E-mail: info@ihtc-15.org