| The conference's
opening address will be given by Professor Robin Batterham
the Group Chief Scientist, Rio Tinto Limited, responsible for
developing the Group’s long term response to climate change and
energy usage. He joined Rio Tinto in 1988 following a research and
management career in CSIRO. His qualifications are in chemical
engineering and he gained his PhD from Melbourne University in 1968
where he is now also a Professorial Fellow in the Department of
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. His current role covers
emerging scientific and technical issues, and identifying
opportunities in energy and climate change. From 1999-2005 he was
Chief Scientist of Australia and his leading role with the
Government helped facilitate investment of an extra $8.3bn for
science and innovation in Australia. Dr Batterham is presently
President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and
Engineering (ATSE).
Keynote papers will be presented by a
number of leading experts from around the world on topical CFD
issues.
Rodney
Fox is the Herbert Stiles Professor of Chemical
and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. He graduated
with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University.
Rodney's research focuses on the development, implementation and
validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools for Chemical
Reaction Engineering.
Larry Hackman
graduated from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in 1982
with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His graduate work focused on
the numerical modelling of complex turbulent flows. He is registered
as a Professional Engineer in the province of Alberta, Canada. He
has worked in the Research Department of Syncrude Canada for the
past 27 years and is presently a Senior Research Associate. He began
his career in the area of froth treatment working on methods of
separating bitumen from aqueous froth containing water and solids.
In 1990 he began working on upgrading processes including LC-Finer ®
and Fluid Coking ® units. His primary technical focus is the
application of the fundamentals of multiphase flow in support of
research projects and operational issues related to Syncrude's
processes. This includes both experimental methods as well as
computational fluid dynamics.
Hrvoje Jasak has a
degree in mechanical Engineering, from University of Zagreb, Croatia
1988-1992, PhD Imperial College, 1993-1996. Worked at CD-adapco
1996-2000 as a senior developer, technical director of Nabla Ltd.
2000-2004, developing a commercial version of FOAM and consulting on
next-generation software architecture, physical modelling and
numerics at Fluent. Currently director of Wikki Ltd. (UK) and
professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Original developer
of FOAM/OpenFOAM, working on code development from his doctoral
project (1993). Running commercial development, support and
consulting with OpenFOAM, as well as academic collaboration with
Universities and research institutes.
JB Joshi is Professor of Chemical Technology at
Mumbai University and the Director of the Institute of Chemical
Technology. He has experience in both research and teaching. His
research areas include fluid mechanics, computational fluid
mechanics, design of multiphase reactors and computer aided process
design.
Timothy Wick is a Professor and Chair of the
Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Alabama at
Birmingham and co-Director of UAB’s BioMatrix Engineering and
Regenerative Medicine Center located in the Shelby Interdisciplinary
Biomedical Research Building. Dr. Wick’s research expertise is in
blood cell adhesion and tissue engineering. He has developed
precisely engineered flow systems to identify receptors and ligands
involved in pathological blood cell adhesion to blood vessel wall
endothelium and biomaterials and to test pharmaceuticals that
inhibit adhesion contributing to disease progression, for example,
in sickle cell anemia, malaria, atherosclerosis or cancer. In
tissue engineering, Dr. Wick’s expertise ranges from fundamental
studies of tissue development to bioprocessing for large-scale
tissue production. He has developed novel bioreactors to grow
cartilage and blood vessels to replace diseased or damaged tissues
in humans. CFD modeling of hydrodynamic loading and nutrient
transport in bioreactors complement tissue growth studies and
identify bioreactor operating conditions that enhance tissue
growth.
Thomas Frank graduated from the Univ. of Technology
Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 1991 with degree of a Ph.D. in
mechanical engineering and with focus on Lagrangian multiphase flow
modelling. Second PhD (German Habilitation degree) has been obtained
as the head of the Research Group on Multiphase Flow Simulation at
Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC), Germany in 2002. Since 2003
Th. Frank is development fellow and group leader for ANSYS CFD
development at ANSYS Germany, Otterfing. He has worked on Lagrangian
particle tracking, numerical and parallelization methods as well as
Eulerian modelling and simulation in nuclear reactor engineering and
safety analysis for more than 23 years. Thomas Frank is running
commercial CFD code development as well as research collaboration of
ANSYS with Universities, research institutes and industry in various
R&D projects on multiphase flow, turbulence and combustion modelling
in the ANSYS CFD codes. |
