Conferences

The ICCHMT conference series, which has been periodically held since 1999, focuses on heat and mass transfer processes. This fundamental discipline is obviously the backbone of a wide range of engineering applications, especially in the areas of energy/thermal/process engineering, and has an even wider reaching scope, including environmental as well as biological processes.

With today's urgent needs concerning the efficient use of energy resources, coupled with environmental concerns, the importance of the topic has become even more obvious. Nanotechnology and biomedical applications are examples of recently growing fields pertaining to heat and mass transfer.

The conference specifically addresses the research, development, and application of computational methods, without, however, excluding experimental and theoretical approaches, especially as means of validation and inspiration. The highly multifaceted field, which can include multiphase phenomena and chemical reactions, is correspondingly demanding computational methods. The latter can cover a wide range of scales, extending from the macroscopic level to the nano-level, using continuum or discrete mechanics, depending on the considered phenomena and purposes. As various procedures, such as FVM, FEM, and FDM, can be used to discretize the field equations of continuum, particle-based methods that utilize different philosophies, such as SPH or LBM, can also be employed, which can model continuum as inspired by discrete mechanics or molecular dynamics, and, thus, build a bridge to meso-scales, whereas truly MD calculations can be performed at non-continuum scales.

The conference series provides a platform for scientists and engineers to meet regularly in a relaxed environment to discuss new ideas and developments in computational methods in addition to their applications, as well as a good opportunity for young scientists and engineers to explore the art of computational methods and future perspectives.

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