KEYNOTE LECTURES

In addition to the contributed presentations, a number of distinguished researchers will give invited keynote lectures.

A panel discussion on Verification and Validation and a mini-symposium on Computational Combustion will also be part of the programme.

The following speakers have agreed to deliver keynote lectures:

Professor Lars Davidson,
Dept of Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
        lada@tfd.chalmers.se
        "Hybrid LES-RANS: an approach to make LES applicable at high Reynolds number"

Professor David Gosman,
ThermoFluids Section, Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London
        d.gosman@ic.ac.uk
        "Status of industrial thermofluids analysis with CFD"

Professor Johannes Janicka,
Institute for Energy and Powerplant Technology, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
        janicka@ekt.tu-darmstadt.de
        "Unsteady methods (URANS and LES) for the simulation of combustions systems"

Dr Patrick Le Quéré,
Mechanical Engineering Department, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique
et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI), France
        plq@limsi.fr
        "Recent progress in the determination of hydrodynamic instabilities for
        natural convection flows"

Professor Brian Milton,
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
        b.milton@unsw.edu.au
        "Pulsed, Supersonic Liquid Jets - their Characteristics and Potential for Improved
        Fuel Injection"

Dr Akshai K. Runchal,
Analytic & Computational Research Inc., Bel Air, CA, USA
        runchal@ACRiCFD.com
        "Computational Simulation of Complex Problems: Promises & Pitfalls"

Professor Wen Quan Tao,
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
        wqtao@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
        Topic: Recent advances in finite volume methods

Dr Alexander Zhmakin,
SoftImpact Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia
        ai@softimpact.ru
        "Heat Transfer Problems in Crystal Growth"