Topics and Special Sessions

The conference will feature presentations in the following subject areas:

• Boiling, evaporation and condensation
• Computational heat transfer
• Cooling of high heat flux devices
• Drying
• Energy recovery, heat integration and process industry energy systems
• Enhanced heat transfer
• Environmental heat transfer
• Gas turbines, engines, combustion
• Heat exchangers
• Heat pipes
• Heat pumps and refrigeration
• Heat transfer at micro and nano scale
• Heat transfer in porous media
• Heat transfer technology for sustainable energy
• Multi-phase flow
• Single phase heat transfer
• Thermal energy storage
• Thermal management

The following Special Sessions will focus on applications in topical areas:

• Additive Manufacturing of Heat Transfer Devices
• AI Applied to Heat Transfer
• Cooling of Electronic Devices and Electrical Machines
• Heat Pipes
• Heat Transfer in Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
• Net Zero/Process Industry Decarbonisation

There will also be a panel discussion on Heat Transfer Education. There will be no abstract requirement for this. If you wish to contribute to this panel (this may be in addition to a standard research presentation) then please contact the session Chair Professor Kew at p.a.kew@hw.ac.uk 

In addition, the Heat Transfer Society will host a special session to give an industrial perspective at the conference. This will be chaired by the HTS, with contributions by invitation only. Please note that industrialists are very welcome to present original research at all other conference sessions. 

Keynote Speakers

The conference will feature six prominent keynote speakers. As of March 2026, five speakers are confirmed:

Dr Raya Al-Dadah (University of Birmingham)

Raya AL-Dadah is a Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Head of the Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory. She took lectureship position at UoB in 1995, promoted to senior lecturer in 2014 and to a reader in 2019. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, member of the Higher Education Academy and associate member of the Institute of Energy. She leads research in the field of sustainable energy technologies including: (i) adsorption heat pumps using advanced metal organic framework adsorbent materials for cooling, heating, energy storage and water desalination; (ii) organic Rankine cycle for electricity generation using low temperature heat sources and (iii) harnessing solar energy using highly concentrated multijunction solar cells.

Her full profile may be viewed here Dr Raya AL-Dadah, Mechanical Engineering - University of Birmingham 

Prof Hector Iacovides (University of Manchester)

Professor Iacovides, graduated from University College London (Mechanical Engineering). He then joined the Thermo and Fluids Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMIST as a post-graduate student, first obtaining an MSc Degree in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics and then going on to complete a PhD project in Computational and Experimental Heat and Fluid Flow. He then joined the staff in the Thermo and Fluids Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMIST, first as a post-doctoral researcher and subsequently as a member of academic staff. Currently he is a Professor of Convective Heat Transfer at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering. He is an expert in both modelling and experimental investigation in turbulent flows, natural convection, mixed convection and conjugate heat transfer. 

His full profile can be viewed here Hector Iacovides - Research Explorer The University of Manchester

Prof Ali Kosar (Sabanci University, Turkiye)

Ali Kosar is one of the pioneers in the design and development of new generation micro heat sinks with functional surfaces and microfluidic devices including cavitation on chip devices. His research interests constitute a wide spectrum covering heat and fluid flow in micro/nano scale, condensation, boiling heat transfer, microfluidic systems, and cavitation. He is aiming at contributing to the literature by offering new knowledge and understanding about micro/nano scale heat transfer and fluid flow and providing experimental data and design guidelines for futuristic cooling and microfluidic system technologies. He has broad experience and knowledge on various types of experiments on heat and fluid flow and phase change phenomena in micro/nano scale. The results of his research have already generated more than 175 published journal research articles (received more than 4000 citations according to Web of Science, h-index: 33) which have been published in prestigious journals like Physics of Fluids, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Moreover, he also has more than 70 conference papers in prestigious and well attended international conferences.

His full profile can be viewed here Ali Kosar 

Prof Andrea Luke (Kassel University, Germany)

Prof Luke is a Professor of Technical Thermodynamics at the University of Kassel, where she leads the Technical Thermodynamics group within the Institute for Thermal Energy Technology. She studied mechanical engineering and completed her doctorate in thermodynamics, followed by academic and research roles at Leibniz University Hannover, where she also served as head of the Institute of Thermodynamics.

Her research focuses on heat and mass transfer, phase-change processes, and thermodynamic systems, with particular emphasis on evaporation, absorption, and refrigeration technologies. She has made significant contributions to experimental and applied thermodynamics, particularly in the design and optimisation of heat exchangers and energy-efficient cooling systems, and is widely recognised for linking fundamental research with practical engineering applications in sustainable thermal technologies.

Her full profile can be viewed here Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andrea Luke (Head of Technical Thermodynamics) - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - Uni Kassel

Prof Savvas Tassou (Brunel University of London)

Prof. Tassou is currently the Director of the Institute of Energy Futures (IEF) and the Director of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) National Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains (CSEF). CSEF is one of six End Use Energy Demand Centres (EUED) established by RCUK after a national competition in 2013. The mission of the EUED Centres is to ‘Reduce the energy required to achieve sustainable lifestyles’. CSEF focusses on Energy Demand and Emissions Reduction in Food Chains. As Director of IEF and CSEF one of Prof. Tassou’s major responsibilities is the recruitment and development of PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers. For more than 20 years, Professor Tassou has been at the forefront of research into energy demand reduction in the food sector. He has attracted over £20 m in funding as principal investigator to support his research, primarily from DEFRA (UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), Innovate UK, RCUK, the EU, overseas governments, in the form of PhD studentships and directly from industry. He has supervised, as 1st supervisor, 28 PhD students to successful completion, and is currently supervising 7 PhD students and 12 Postdoctoral Research Assistants. The work has resulted in 300 journal and conference publications, 4 books, and 2 patents.

His full profile can be viewed here Professor Savvas A Tassou | Introduction | Brunel University London