COURSE DIRECTORS

THE LECTURERS

Sanjoy Banerjee is Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Energy Institute at the City University of New York. Previously he was Professor of Chem. Engng. at the Univ. of Calif. - Santa Barbara. Member of the US NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, ACRS. Earlier in Canada, he occupied the positions of Westinghouse Professor of Engineering Physics at McMaster Univ. and of Acting Director of Applied Science in the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment. He was a founding member of the Canadian Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety and serves as a consultant to governmental and industrial organisations in several countries. He has received the ASME Melville Medal, the IChemE (UK) Danckwerts Lecturership, the AIChE Kern Award, and the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award. He has published extensively on multiphase fluid dynamics and turbulence. Fellow of ANS. Previously in Canada, he occupied the positions of Westinghouse Professor of Engineering Physics at McMaster Univ. and of Acting Director of Applied Science in the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment. He was a founding member of the Canadian Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety and serves as a consultant to governmental and industrial organisations in several countries. He is a member of several Editorial Boards, and has received the ASME Melville Medal, the 1992 Cray (Italy) Prize, and the ASME 1999 Heat Transfer Memorial Award in Science. He has published extensively on multiphase fluid dynamics and turbulence. Fellow of ANS.

Dominique Bestion is research director at Commissariat à l' Energie Atomique, in France. He has been working a long time in modelling two-phase flow for the CATHARE code and has been project manager of CATHARE development. He is now coordinator for two-phase flow modelling in the NEPTUNE thermalhydraulic platform and coordinator of the Thermalhydraulic Subproject of NURISP, the European Integrated Project for a multi-disciplinary and multi-scale software platform. As a member of the OECD-CSNI, GAMA working group, he coordinates the Writing Group on the extension of CFD to two-phase nuclear reactor safety issues.

Michael L. Corradini is Chair and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineeering at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.. He is also a member of the US NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). Previously, at Sandia Natl Laboratories he was principal investigator for the LWR vapour explosion research programme and for other severe accident research projects. Member of NRC safety review panels and of the DoE Generation IV Roadmap Project. He has published widely in areas related to vapour explosion phenomena, jet spray dynamics and transport phenomena in multiphase systems.

Thomas Frank is the Head of the Funded CFD Development Group of ANSYS, Germany. He has obtained his PhD in multiphase flow modeling at the Univ. of Technology Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 1991. Second PhD (Habilitation) on Lagrangian multiphase flow modeling 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 CFX development at ANSYS Germany, Otterfing. He has worked on Lagrangian particle tracking, numerical and parallelization methods as well as Eulerian modeling and simulation in nuclear reactor engineering and safety analysis for more than 22 years.

Gad Hetsroni is the Danciger Professor emeritus of Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Director of the Multiphase Flow Laboratory. He has occupied positions at Westinghouse, EPRI, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara, and Stanford University in the US. He has also served as the Director of the National Council for Research and Development in Israel, and as Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion. He has worked on many different aspects of two-phase flow and is the founder and Editor of the Int. J. of Multiphase Flow and Editor of the Handbook of Multiphase Systems. Fellow of ASME.

Geoffrey F. Hewitt is Professor emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, London. He was formerly head of the Thermal Hydraulics Division and founder of the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service (HTFS) at the Harwell Laboratory. He has authored and edited many books on heat transfer and fluid flow and published over 500 papers and reports, mainly on gas-liquid flow and evaporative heat transfer. He is Editor of Multiphase Science and Technology and Executive Editor of the Heat Exchanger Design Handbook. He is the recipient of the AIChE Donald Q. Kern, the ASME Max Jacob awards, the Nusselt Reynolds Prize, the Luikov Medal and the IChemE Council and Armstrong medals, the Senior Multiphase Flow Award and the Global Energy Prize. He has honorary Doctorates from Louvain, UMIST and Heriot Watt. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Djamel Lakehal is founder and CEO of ASCOMP GmbH, an ETH spin-off company specialized in industrial thermal-fluid dynamics. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from Ecole Centrale of Nantes in France. After four years of research on turbulence at the Univ. of Karlsruhe and TU-Berlin, he joined the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory of ETH as Group Leader and Lecturer. Dr Lakehal authored numerous papers in the area of thermal-fluid dynamics.

Simon Lo is the Director of Multiphase Flow Models Development CD-adapco and a Special Professor in CMFD at The University of Nottingham, UK. He received his PhD from Imperial College, London in 1984. Since then he has been actively involved in the development of commercial CFD codes (CFX and STAR-CD) and their application to industrial multiphase flows.

Horst-Michael Prasser is Professor of Nuclear Energy Systems at ETH-Zurich since April 2006 and Head of the Thermal Hydraulics Laboratory of the Paul Scherrer Institute, PSI. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Power Engng and obtained a PhD in 1984 at the Engineering Institute in Zittau. During the German reunification, he took part in the foundation of the Research Center Dresden (formerly Rossendorf), where he later headed the groups "Accident Analyses" and "Experimental Thermal Fluid Dynamics". Professor Prasser has published extensively on multiphase flow instrumentation and experiments with a focus on gas-liquid flows and the closure relations necessary for C(M)FD codes, as well as on nuclear reactor safety studies.

Gretar Tryggvason is Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has published papers on multiphase and free surface flows, vortex dynamics and combustion, boiling, solidification, and numerical methods. He has also consulted for private industry and government agencies. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, ASME, an Assoc. Editor of the Int. J. of Multiphase Flow and the Editor-in-chief of the J. Comp. Physics.

George Yadigaroglu is Professor emeritus of Nuclear Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Zurich) and President and co-founder of ASCOMP, an ETH spin-off company specializing in CMFD simulations. For the period 1988-1999, he was also heading the Thermal-Hydraulics Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institute. He was previously Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Univ. of California-Berkeley, and served as Head of the Nuclear Regulatory Service in Greece. He is active in research and consulting for various organisations and national laboratories on a range of multi-phase flow and heat transfer topics and is a member of several international committees dealing with nuclear safety issues. ANS Technical Achievement Award. ANS and ASME Fellow. Former Assoc. Editor of the Int. J. of Multiphase Flow.

Stéphane Zaleski is Professor of Mechanics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 6). He investigates various methods for the simulation of multiphase flow. He is director of the Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert of UPMC and CNRS. He is Associate editor of the J. Comput. Physics; received the Victor Noury prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences and the Silver Medal of CNRS; he is Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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