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Professor
Milivoje M. Kostic of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been
invited to deliver a Plenary Lecture at the HMT'08-The5th
WSEAS International Conference on HEAT and MASS TRANSFER, in Acapulco, Mexico,
January 25-27, 2008, organized by the World Scientific and Engineering
Academy and Society (WSEAS), see at:
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/mexico/hmt/Plenary1.htm
Kostic’s Plenary Lecture focuses on philosophical and practical aspects
of energy, heat and entropy, with emphasis on reversibility and
irreversibility, and a goal to establish the concept of ideal
“reversible heat transfer,” regardless that heat transfer is a
typical irreversible process. Heat transfer, like any other energy transfer,
may be achieved from any-to-any temperature level, and in limit be
reversible, if temperature of an intermediary cyclic substance is adjusted as
needed, using isentropic compression and expansion. The reversible heat
transfer limits are the most efficient and demonstrate limiting potentials
for practical heat transfer processes. The heat transfer and thermal energy
are unique and universal manifestation of all natural and artificial
(man-made) processes, and thus are vital for more efficient cooling and
heating in new and critical applications, including energy production and
utilization, environmental control and cleanup, and bio-medical applications.
Professor Kostic's teaching and research interests are in Thermodynamics (a
science of energy, the Mother of All Sciences), Fluid Mechanics, Heat
Transfer and related fluid-thermal-energy sciences; with emphases on physical
comprehension and creative design, experimental methods with computerized
data acquisition, and CFD simulation; including nanotechnology and
development of new-hybrid, POLY-nanofluids with enhanced properties, as well
as design, analysis and optimization of fluids-thermal-energy components and
systems in power-conversion, utilizations, manufacturing and material
processing.
More at: www.kostic.niu.edu
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