he International Information Center for Multiphase Flow 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 Mea- surement Techniques for Multiphase Flows (ISMTMF) was  held  at  Hokkaido  University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The symposium was organized by The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow (JSMF), and co-organized by The Japan Society of 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 and extended 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 multiphase industries. The ISMTMF series have 20 years of history since South-East University in Nanjing, China, held the first meeting in 1995. In the past three symposia from 6th to 8th rounds, number of participants exceeded 100 due to recent worldwide demands particularly for environmental issues. In the present 9th symposium, therefore, the chair and co-chairs called for papers putting priority onto two topical fields, water treatment and particulate matter measurement. There were 121 technical presentations made during the three-day symposium, including three plenary 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 To Join ICeM: Everybody, who is interested in Multiphase flow, is welcome to join ICeM. Please contact one of the following board members to register in ICeM member.
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. The number, 167, has been the largest ever in this series. Fortunately, weather was perfect in Sapporo only during the symposium dates so that people enjoyed lunches in patio and walking around in Sapporo. A mini-excursion was to take 130 participants on three buses to Sapporo Winter Olympic museum where they were chair-lifted up to the starting point of large-hill ski jumpers. In banquet held at Sapporo TV restaurant, funny     prizewinners Tower were announced to the guests from the local organizing committee to three very special persons; the earliest submitter of the abstract, the first payer of the registration fee, and the person traveled from the longest distance. Separately, official certificates of best presentation were awarded to three students in the closing ceremony. The 10th ISMTMF is to be held in Hong Kong, China, in 2018. Yuichi Murai Symposium Chair of the 9th ISMTMF Hokkaido University E-mail: murai@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
7th European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting
October 11-15, 2015, Zermatt, Switzerland
by John R. Thome 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 conference secretary Lima as the (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL). The Japanese co-chairs were Prof. Tomoji Takamasa (Tokyo University Marine Science of and Technology) 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 the Faculty of Engineering (STI) and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IGM) of the EPFL. There was a large turnout with participants 90 (including spouses) with numbering large delegations 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 papers were divided up into sessions 65 of Experimental, Modeling, Numerical, Visualization and Devices. As the theme of this meeting is recent and ongoing work on two-phase flow and two-phase heat transfer, full papers and extended abstracts were both accepted, and all were provided to the participants as a proceedings on a memory stick. 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 the conference hotel, the Beau Site Park Hotel, enjoying all meals together in the hotel over the course of the conference. The meeting began on Sunday afternoon with the first 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 to commemorate hosting his the first of European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting in Portoroz in Slovenia in 1998 and this was followed by 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 a mountain top walk in the beautiful sunshine above the clouds and a firsthand look at the Matterhorn and surrounding  mountains  and  valleys.  Thursday morning, the participants were greeted to a light blanket of snow that fell during the night. The 8th Japanese-European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting will be held in 2018 in New York city and 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/ ICeM NEWSLETTER No.45 (2016) / The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow The World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass 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/ 9th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF 2016) Firenze, Italy, May 22 - 27, 2016 Chair: Jacques Magnaudet (Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse) Chair: Alfredo Soldati (University of Udine) http://www.aidic.it/icmf2016/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/
http://www.istp27.jp/index.html ICeM NEWSLETTER No.45 (2016) / The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow 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, JAPAN Tel : +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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