Program-at-a-Glance



DAY1 : Monday, January 4, 2010
TIMEEVENT
09:15 – 09:45 Inauguration
09:45 – 10:45 Plenary-1
Speaker: R. K. Sinha, Director, Reactor Design & Development Group Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India..
Title: Advanced Reactor Development and its Challenges in the Indian Perspective
10:45 – 11:15 High Tea
11:15 – 12:00 Keynote-1
Speaker: Minking K. Chyu, University of Pittsburgh.
Title: Aerothermal Challenges in Coal-Gas Based Turbine Systems
12:00 – 12:45 Keynote-2
Speaker: V. V. Ranade, NCL Pune/Tridiagonal Solutions, Pune.
Title: Modeling & Simulation of Industrial Multiphase Flows with Phase Change
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:30 Keynote-3
Speaker: Suman Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur.
Title: Microfluidics and Microscale Transport Processes: Present Trends and Future Challenges
14:30 – 16:30Poster Session-1
16:30 – 17:15 Keynote-4
Speaker: P. S. Ayyaswamy, University of Pennsylvania.
Title: Effect of a Soluble Surfactant on a Finite Sized Gas Bubble Motion in Blood Vessel
17:15 – 18:00 Keynote-5
Speaker: Raj M. Manglik, University of Cincinnati.
Title: Interfacial Phenomena in Nucleate Pool Boiling of Water: Their Role and manipulation by Molecular Dynamics of Surface- Active Additives
 
DAY2 : Tuesday, January 5, 2010
TIMEEVENT
09:15 – 10:15 Plenary-2
Speaker: Michael Corradini, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Title: Advance Nuclear Power Systems: Issues and Challenges
10:15 – 11:00 Keynote-6
Speaker: C. Balaji, IIT Madras.
Title: Retrieval of Rainfall from Satellite Microwave Radiances
11:00 – 13:00Poster Session-2
13:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Keynote-7
Speaker: C. Thomas Avedisian, Cornell University.
Title: Utilizing the Film Boiling Process to Promote Chemical Change of Organic Liquids
14:45 – 16:45Poster Session-3
16:45 – 17:30 Keynote-8
Speaker: M. R. Ravi, IIT Delhi.
Title: Issues in Biomass Gasification and Combustion
17:30 – 18:15 Keynote-9
Speaker: Sameer Khandekar, IIT Kanpur.
Title: Dropwise Condensation on Textured Surfaces: Issues and Prospects
18:15 – 19:15General Body Meeting
20:00 – 22:00Conference Dinner
 
DAY3 : Wednesday, January 6, 2010
TIMEEVENT
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote-10
Speaker: Sanjoy Banerjee, City College New York.
Title: Fine Scale Modelling and Simulation of Multiphase and Phase- Separating Flows
10:15 – 11:00 Keynote-11
Speaker: Souvik Bhattacharyya, IIT Kharagpur.
Title: Transcritical and Cascade Systems for Natural Refrigerants: Recent Developments
11:00 – 13:00Poster Session-4
13:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Keynote-12
Speaker: Norman Chigier, Carnegie Mellon University.
Title: Spray Control for Maximizing Energy Efficiency and Minimizing Emissions in Combustion Engines
14:45 – 16:45Poster Session-5
16:45 – 17:15Valedictory