KUCHING –A senior engineering academic from Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus has been invited to present keynote addresses at international conferences in Japan and Spain..
Professor Alexander Gorin from the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Computing will deliver a keynote lecture on the latest advances in fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer in turbulent separated flows, at the 4th International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, in Japan in September.
The conference explores the fundamental characteristics and related advanced applications of such types of flows and exchange of ideas not only academically but also in the industrial and practical fields.
A prestigious meeting for researchers, engineers and educationists from all over the world who are experts in their fields, more than 20 countries with a reputation in research were represented at the previous conferences held in Japan, the US and Germany.
“For more than a hundred years, the research in this field is one of the most important and practical research subjects in the area of thermofluids and engineering. Due to their importance for flow stability and flow control, and application to various fields such as industry, energy generation and environmental management, these flows attract the effort of a great number of researchers and engineers both in academia and the engineering industry,” Gorin said.
Gorin, who heads the chemical engineering program at Swinburne Sarawak, is among a few distinguished scientists invited to deliver the keynote lecture on the subject.
Gorin and his team had developed a theory and verified it on their own and various authors’ experiments on fundamental properties of transport phenomena in complex turbulent flows.
His results lay the groundwork for universal generalised correlations of great importance for fundamental science and are applicable to the design of engineering equipment.
Gorin will also deliver a keynote address at the 9th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, which will be held in Spain this year. This well-established conference consists of a few specialised symposia/sessions with about 500 participants from around the world.
The plenary lecture will be delivered at a symposium on alternative energy covering environmentally friendly energy sources such as biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and hydrogen sources.
In his lecture, Gorin will discuss issues and findings from research he had undertaken with his PhD and Master students from Malaysia in developing power generation technology using local biomass as a potential source of alternative energy.