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International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer
ICHMT
https://www.ichmt.org/

Brief Introduction
to Member Institutions
and Scientific Council Members
Contents
1. ICHMT .................................... 1
2. Objectives .............................. 1
3. Organization .......................... 2
3.1 Member Institutions (MI)
3.2 General Assembly (GA)
3.3 Scientific Council (SC)4. Officers .................................. 3
5. Future Meetings .................... 4
6. Publications ........................... 4
Appendices................................ 5
A1. Statutes (extract)
A2. By-Laws (extract)A3. The Founding Members
1. ICHMT
an international, professional, non-governmental, non-profit organization
2. Objectives
to promote and to foster international cooperation in the science of heat andmass transfer and its applications, particularly in close cooperation with theAssembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences (AIHTC).
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3. Organization- 42 Member Institutions from 31 countries- More than 200 Scientific Council members- Officers: President, Vice Presidents, Secretary General,
Executive Committee (15 members), Financial Auditors

Fig. 1 Member Institutions, General Assembly, and Scientific Council
3.1 Member Institutions (MI) https://www.ichmt.org/p/member-institutions
Functions- to send one voting member (Delegate or Alternate Delegate) to themeetings of the General Assembly (GA)- to nominate members of the Scientific Council (SC)
3.2 General Assembly (GA)
Functions- to approve the Statutes or amendments to the Statutes of the Centre- to elect the President and the Vice Presidents of the Centre- to elect members of the Scientific Council
3.3 Scientific Council (SC) https://www.ichmt.org/p/scientific-council
Functions- to develop the state of the art in the field- to elect the members of the Executive Committee- to advise the Executive Committee on the operation of the Centre- to approve or amend the By-Laws of the Centre- to appoint the Secretary-General upon receiving a nomination from theExecutive Committee- to present honors and awards of the Centre
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- to appoint two of its members as financial auditors of the Centre- to elect Honorary Members of the Centre
4. Officers https://www.ichmt.org/p/officers-of-ichmt
President
Terrence W. Simon USA
Vice Presidents
Yildiz Bayazitoglu
Peter Stephan

USAGermany

Secretary General
Ilker TariTurkey

EC Members (continued)
Yogesh Jaluria
USADenis LemonnierFranceWojciech Lipinski
Australia
Pinar Mengüç
TurkeyAbdulmajeed Mohamad Canada
Jacques Padet
FranceJohn Thome
Switzerland
Brent Webb
USA
Hideo YoshidaJapan
Xing Zhang
China

EC Chairman
Pedro J. M. Coelho Portugal
EC Vice Chairman
Pinar Mengüç

Financial Auditors
Kyle Daun
CanadaYogesh Jaluria
USA
Mikhail A. Sheremet Russia

TurkeyEC Members
Pedro J. M. Coelho Portugal
Renato M. Cotta
BrazilPaolo Di Marco
Italy
Leonid Dombrovsky Russia
Ulrich Gross
Germany

Past Presidents
Maurizio Cumo
Italy
Richard J. Goldstein USA
Kemal Hanjalic
BosniaHerzegovina
Table 1

Meetings

frequency

quorumStatutes

GA at least once every four years

10 (max. 42 in August 2020)

Article 13

SC at least once every four years

20 (max. 226 in August 2020)

Article 14

EC at least once each calendar year 1/2 of elected EC (max. 15 fixed) Article 15
Table 2

Elections and Terms of SC and Officers
elected/nominated bytermGA
2 years

SCPresident & Vice-Presidents
GAof GA
Chairman & Vice-Chairman
ECof EC
Members of EC
SCThe Secretary-General
Chairman of EC

34 years

By-Laws
Article 3Article 4

1 (VC) + 2 (C)Articles 5, 6+ 1 (VC) = 4 years
4 years
Article 7
4 years
Article 8

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5. Future Meetings
Organized by ICHMT- Int. Sympo. on Convective
Heat and Mass Transfer,
CONV-21- 10th Int. Sympo. on
Turbulence Heat and MassTransfer, THMT-21- Int. Sympo. on Gas Turbine
Heat and Mass Transfer,
TURBINE-21- 8th Int. Sympo. on Advances in
Computational Heat Transfer,
CHT-21
Co-sponsored by ICHMT- 5th Thermal and Fluids
Engineering Conf., TFEC-2021
Fig. 2 Distributions of SC members- 13th Int. Conf. on ThermalEngineering, ICTEA- 15th Int. Conf. on Heat Trans., Fluid
Mech. and Thermodynamics, HEFAT2020
6. Publications
Proceedings of ICHMT Meetings
https://www.ichmt.org/p/proceedings-of-ichmt-meetings
Other Publications
https://www.ichmt.org/p/other-publications
ICHMT Digital Library
http://dl.begellhouse.com/references/1bb331655c289a0a.html

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AppendicesA1. Statutes (extract)
https://www.ichmt.org/p/statutes

I.
GENERALREGULATIONS,RESIDENCE AND LEGAL STATUS
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
Article 7

NAME,

Executive Committee;
14.4.4. To approve or amend the By-Lawsof the Centre;
14.4.5. To appoint the Secretary-General
upon receiving a nomination from the
Executive Committee;
14.4.7. To appoint two of its members as
financial auditors of the Centre;
14.5. A meeting of the Scientific Council shall beconvened by the Chairman at least once
every four years;
14.6. A quorum for a meeting of the ScientificCouncil consists of twenty members.

II. OBJECTIVES
Article 8Article 9 (9.1.‒7.)
III. MEMBERSHIP
Article 10Article 11VII. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Article 15 (15.1.‒9.)15.1. The Executive Committee is the bodywhich organizes and carries out theactivities of the Centre. Members of the
Executive Committee are elected by theScientific Council by a simple majority of
those voting in a mail ballot conducted bythe President of the Scientific Council.
Nominations for membership on theExecutive Committee may be made by any
member of the Scientific Council or any
Institutional Member. Executive Committee
members serve a term of four years andmay be re-elected twice;15.6. The Executive Committee shall meet atleast once each calendar year;
15.7. A quorum for a meeting of the Executive
Committee consists of one-half of theelected members.

IV. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Article 12 (12.1.‒3.)
The Centre is composed of:
12.1. The General Assembly (GA)12.2. The Scientific Council (SC)12.3. The Executive Committee (EC)V. GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Article 13 (13.1.‒10.)
13.1. The General Assembly is the highest
governing body of the Centre;
13.2. The General Assembly consists ofrepresentatives of the Institutional Members.
13.4. The functions of the General Assemblyare:13.4.1. To approve the Statutes oramendments to the Statutes of theCentre;
13.4.2. To elect the President and the Vice
Presidents of the Centre.
13.4.3. To elect members of the ScientificCouncil.
13.6. A meeting of the General Assembly isconvened by the President at least once
every four years,
13.7. A quorum for a meeting of the General
Assembly consists of ten representatives;

VIII. SECRETARY GENERAL
Article 16 (16.1.‒2.)
IX. FINANCES
Article 17 (17.1.)
X. SECRETARIAT OF THE CENTRE
Article 18
XI. WINDING-UP OF THE CENTRE
Article 19 (19.1.‒3.)

VI. SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
Article 14 (14.1.‒6.)
14.4. The functions of the Scientific Council are:14.4.2. To elect the members of theXII. CONCLUDING REGULATIONSArticle 20
Article 215

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A2. By-Laws (extract)
https://www.ichmt.org/p/by-laws

Article 9
The Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and members ofOrganizing Committees for conferences andother activities and for Special Committees

I. GENERAL
Article 1
II. MEMBERSHIP OF THE CENTRE
Article 2
Institutional members

IV. MEETINGS
Article 10
The GA meetings
Article 11
The SC meetings
Article 12
The EC and any Organizing or Special
Committees

III. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONSArticle 3
The SC
Article 4
The President and the Vice-Presidents of theGA
Article 5
The Chairman of the EC
Article 6
The Vice-Chairman of the EC
Article 7
Members of the EC
Article 8
The Secretary-General

V. RESIDENCE OF CENTRE
Article 13VI. SECRETARY GENERAL
Article 14
VII. APPROVAL OF BY-LAWS
Article 15

A3. The Founding Members

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