Ramesh Agarwal, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
Research Interests: Ground effect aerodynamics; Flow control; Rarefied gas dynamics and Hypersonic flow; Bio-fluid dynamics; Wind energy; Energy efficiency of buildings; Chemical looping combustion and Geological carbon sequestration.
Tomasz Kowalewski, Professor, Institute of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Polish Academy of sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics; Micro-fluidics; nanofibres; Bioengineering; Multiphase flow; Free surface flow; Thermally driven flow; Flow with phase changes; Experimental and numerical methods in fluid mechanics.
Earl Dowell, Professor, Mechanical engineering & materials Science Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Research Interests: Aeroelasticity; Acoustics; Nonlinear dynamics; Structural dynamics; and Unsteady aerodynamics.
Kiran Bhaganagar, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, USA.
Research Interests: Inertial and Buoyancy driven Turbulence; High-fidelity modeling of Atmospheric and Oceanic turbulence using LES and WRF; DNS rough-walls and Drag Reduction.
Maria Teresa Cidade, Professor, Materials Science Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal.
Research Interests: Rheology (including rheo-optics and electrorheology) of complex fluids; Namely Liquid Crystals; Polymeric materials; Polymer based composites; Biomaterials and Construction materials; Characterization of polymeric materials and polymer based composites; Electrorheological Fluids; Biopolymers.
Dengwei Jing, Professor, International Research Center for Renewable Energy & State Key Lab of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Research Interests: Modelling and Measurement of Multiphase flow; Solar Energy Conversion, Application of nanofluids in heat transfer, Petroleum Industry.