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 6 prominent keynote speakers. An announcement will follow in 2026.