The purpose of this conference is to provide for travel support to the International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer (CHT?12) to be held in July 2012 in Bath, United Kingdom. This is an international conference on state-of-the-art and promising computational techniques applied to heat transfer, and will assemble scientists and engineers working in fields related to, and requiring, computational methods for modeling all modes of heat transfer, including coupling with fluid flow and related multi-physics interactions. The goal of the symposium is to bring together leading researchers in the field of computational hardware and software and foster a technical exchange of ideas for future activities in the field. Software innovation for the next generation of scientists will be a key feature of the discussion.
The conference spans the spectrum of application in thermal sciences but with scientific computing at its core. Therefore advances in computing software is likely to impact many disciplines, and at the same time application needs can be communicated to those developing software. The conference support allows US scientists to be engaged in a major international conference and make connections for collaborative activities.
The 5th International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer was held on July 1-6, 2012 in Bath, England at the University of Bath. The International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) hosted the conference, with support from the University of Bath (who served as the local host), and the University of New South Wales, Australia. This was an international conference on computational techniques applied to heat transfer, and assembled scientists and engineers working in fields related to, and requiring, computational methods for modeling all modes of heat transfer, including coupling with fluid flow. The purpose of the conference was to provide technical exchange, identification of the state-of-the-art, and the projection of future needs and trends in numerically solving such problems. There were 130 attendees from 35 different countries. Eleven keynote lectures (Bennacer, Catton, Chai, Dhir, Dombrovsky, Runchal, Spalding, Sazhin, Timchenko, Tucker and Zhang), 1 special guest (Bar-Cohen) and 122 poster presentations were given. The keynote talks were held in a large lecture hall at the University, with nearly full attendance of all the participants. The symposium held a tribute to the memory of the late Professor Eddie Leonardi, co-founder of this series of CHT symposia. In addition, the symposium served as a tribute to Professor D. Brian Spalding FRS in honor of his 89th birthday and in recognition of his innumerable contributions to computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. A reception and symposium dinner were held one night in the city of Bath, with both participants and guests attending the event. Additional information is available at http://cht12.mech.unsw.edu.au/. NSF provided funding to support travel for researchers, principally junior and underrepresented minority faculty and graduate students, from US universities. A total of $15,750 was obtained from the NSF. There were 10 attendees from the US, including 3 from the US Air Force Academy. The format of the symposium was a series of poster sessions, lasting approximately 2 hours per session, where the authors could present and discuss their research. This format is very similar to the format used at the International Heat Transfer Conference, and proved to be popular with the attendees. The conference was announced by several professional organizations, and also appeared on its own web site (http://cht12.mech.unsw.edu.au). The proceedings were published by Begell House, Inc. as a CD including a listing of papers on a web-based data site established by Begell House. Several authors submitted papers to the Journal of Computational Thermal Sciences and their papers were subsequently published in the mid spring, 2013 edition of the journal.
