Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena VI: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials, and Space Sciences.

 FINAL  PROGRAM

(subject to changes)

 

 

University of Southern California

 

 

 

ITP 2009

VOLTERRA, ITALY

October 4-9, 2009

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SUNDAY, October 4, 2009, 3

Course on “Cross-Disciplinary Education in Transport Phenomena: Opportunities and Challenges” by Dr. Muhammad Zaman, Assistant Professor, 3

Registration and Supper 3

Opening reception. 3

Monday, October 5, 2009. 3

Preliminaries. 3

Session 1: Biotransport Phenomena in Physiology and Medicine I. 3

Session 2: Biotransport Phenomena in Physiology and Medicine II. 3

Session 3: Targeted Drug Delivery and Treatment 3

Session 4: Transport in Bioporous Media. 3

Session 5: Bio-Response in Space Environment 3

Tuesday, October 6, 2009. 4

Session 6: Protein and Organic Crystal Growth. 4

Session 7: Boiling Phenomena I. 4

Session 9: Drops, Bubbles, and Particles I. 4

Session 10: Drops, Bubbles, and Particles II. 5

WEDNESDAY, October 7, 2009. 5

Session 11: Interfacial Phenomena and Surfactants I. 5

Session 12: Interfacial Phenomena and Surfactants II. 6

THURSDAY, October 8, 2009. 6

Session 13: Phase-Change Phenomena. 6

Session 14: Nanoscale and Microscale Transport Phenomena. 6

Session 15: Transport Processes in Materials Technology I. 7

Session 16: Transport Processes in Materials Technology II. 7

Banquet 7

FRIDAY October 9, 2009. 7

Session 17: General Papers in Transport Phenomena. 7

Conference Adjournment of Technical Sessions and Wrap-Up. 8

 

SUNDAY, October 4, 2009,

14:00-16:00

Course on “Cross-Disciplinary Education in Transport Phenomena: Opportunities and Challenges” by Dr. Muhammad Zaman, Assistant Professor,

 

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin (open to all registered participants)

16:00

Registration

18:00-20:00

Supper

20:15-21:45

Opening reception

 

 

Monday, October 5, 2009

07:00-08:00

Breakfast

08:00-08:10

08:10-08:30

Preliminaries

Transport phenomena in modern science and engineering, S.S. Sadhal, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

 

 

 

08:35-10:15

Session 1: Biotransport Phenomena in Physiology and Medicine I

Co-Chairs: David Eckmann & Alamelu Sundaresan

08:35-09:25

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Distribution of traction forces and intracellular markers associated with shape changes during amoeboid cell migration (Paper 67), Juan C. Lasheras, Ruedi Meili, Baldomero Alonso-Latorre, Juan C. del Álamo, Richard A. Firtel, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

09:25-09:50

2

Numerical simulation of ozone uptake in the respiratory tract during steady inspiratory flow (Paper 63), Banafsheh Keshavarzi, James Ultman and Ali Borhan, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

09:50-10:10

Tea/Coffee Break

10:10-11:50

Session 2: Biotransport Phenomena in Physiology and Medicine II

Co-Chairs: Juan Lasheras & Ali Borhan

10:10-11:00

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Protein transport in tooth enamel formation (Paper 71), Janet Moradian-Oldak, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California  90033, USA

11:00-11:25

2

Cell metal segregation, liver pathologies and ultramicroscopy techniques: towards mammalian liver pathologies characterization (Paper 51),  Marziale Milani, Claudia Brundu, Grazia Santisi, Claudio Savoia and Francesco Tatti,  University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

11:25-11:50

3

Nanoprobes for quantifying mechanics of metastatic cells (Paper 82), Erin Baker, Roger Bonnecaze,  and Muhammad Zaman, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

11:55-13:00

Lunch

 

 

13:15-14:55

Session 3: Targeted Drug Delivery and Treatment

Co-Chairs: Alamelu Sundaresan & Ali Borhan

13:15-14:05

1

Keynote lecture: Targeted delivery of drugs in the vascular system (Paper 31), Vladimir Muzykantov and Silvia Muro, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

14:05-14:30

2

Droplet-to-bubble transition in phase-shift nanoemulsions for tumor chemotherapy (Paper 28), Natalya Rapoport, Kwon-Ho Nam, Anne M. Kennedy, Jill Shea and Courtney Scaifeand , University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

14:30-14:55

3

Effect of disturbed and laminar flow on drug delivery vehicles targeted to endothelial cells (Paper 20), Andres J. Calderon, Madiha Baig, Ben Pichett, Vladimir Muzykantov, Silvia Muro and David M. Eckmann, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

14:55-15:10

Tea/Coffee Break

 

 

15:10-17:10

Session 4: Transport in Bioporous Media

Co-Chairs: Muhammad Zaman & Vladimir Privman

15:10-15:35

1

Nutrient transport in intervertebral disc: Effects of tissue composition (Paper 69),  M.  Syahminul Rahmani, Mariam Annuar, Dongwei Zhang, Diganta Bhusan Das, Loughborough University,Loughborough, UK

15:35-16:00

2

Fluid transport within porous media including ionic exchanges (Paper 74), Thibault Lemaire, Joanna Kaiser, Vittorio Sansalone and Salah Naďli, Laboratory MSME - FRE CNRS 3160, University Paris Est, France

16:00-16:25

3

Diffusion and reaction in nanostructured sulfated zirconias - a transient TAP study (Paper 37), Cornelia Breitkopf, Matthias Galinsky and Michal Lutecki, TU München, Germany

16:25-16:50

4

Flow-induced deformation of non-crimp fabrics during composites manufacturing  (Paper 52), Vilnis Frishfelds, Gunnar Hellström and Staffan Lundström, University of Latvia, Latvia

16:50-17:10

Tea/Coffee Break

17:10-18:00

Session 5: Bio-Response in Space Environment

Co-Chairs: Naomi Chayen & Diganta B. Das

17:10-17:35

1

A possible cardiovascular predictor of susceptibility to microgravity (Paper 06), A.Sundaresan, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA

17:35-18:00

2

Space toxicology: Environmental health considerations during spaceflight operations and potential paths for research (Paper 34), Noreen N. Khan-Mayberry and Alamelu Sundaresan, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA

POSTER

3

Direct pressure modulation induces oxidant generation and alters electron transport in isolated mitochondria (Paper 58), Joshua W. Lampe and Lance Becker, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

18:00-19:30

Social time and informal discussion on Sessions 1-5

19:30-21:00

Dinner

 


Tuesday, October 6, 2009

07:00-08:00

Breakfast

08:00-09:40

Session 6: Protein and Organic Crystal Growth

Co-Chairs: Janet Oldak & Diganta B. Das  

08:00-08:50

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: The Application of Nano Pores for Transport and Nucleation of Biological Macromolecules (Paper 72), Naomi E. Chayen, Imperial College London, UK

08:50-09:15

2

Shapes of Colloids and Nanoparticles Grown by Solution Synthesis (Paper 18), Vladimir Privman, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA

09:15-09:40

3

Controlled synthesis of Lithium Zirconates with different crystalline phase (Paper 03), Xian-Sheng Yin, Guo-Ping Xiao, Qin-Hui Zhan, Jian-Guo Yu, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, P.R.China

09:40-09:55

Tea/Coffee Break

 

 

09:55-12:00

Session 7: Boiling Phenomena I

Co-Chairs: Walter Grassi & Koichi Suzuki

09:55-10:45

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Molecular-to-macro-scale control of interfacial behavior in ebullient phase change in aqueous solutions of reagents (Paper 35), Raj M. Manglik,University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

10:45-11:10

2

Nucleate pool boiling with increased gravity and subcooling near the critical heat flux (Paper 01), Herman Merte, Jr., Guenther Liersch, Johannes Straub and Robert B. Keller University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 

11:10-11:35

3

Nucleate boiling heat transfer in alcohol aqueous solutions (Paper 09), Takashi Sakai, Yuuki Tsukinari, Shinsaku Yoshii, Kazutoshi Kajimoto, Yasuhisa Shinmoto and Haruhiko Ohta, Kyushu University, Japan

11:35-12:00

4

Heat transfer enhancement from a circular cylinder to distilled water by ultrasonic waves in subcooled conditions (Paper 65),  Federica Baffigi and Carlo Bartoli, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

 

 

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:15

Session 8: Boiling Phenomena II

Co-Chairs: Raj Manglik & Herman Merte

13:00-13:25

1

Microbubble Emission Boiling; An effect of pressure on subcooled flow boiling with microbubble emission (Paper 56), Kengo Suzuki, Koichi Suzuki, Chunpyo Hong and Kazuhisa Yuki, Tokyo University of Science, Noda City, Japan

13:25-13:50

2

Subcooled flow boiling with microbubble emission; An effect of orientation of heating surface on boiling (Paper 22), Kazuya Nakagawa, Koichi Suzuki,  Chunpyo Hong and Kazuhisa Yuki, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Japan

13:50-14:15

3

Effects of ionic jets on nucleate boiling and CHF on a horizontal plate (Paper 79), Walter Grassi and Daniele Testi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

 

 

14:15-14:30

 

Tea/Coffee Break

 

 

 

14:30-16:10

Session 9: Drops, Bubbles, and Particles I

Co-Chairs: Haruhiko Ohta & S.S. Sadhal

14:30-14:55

 

1

PIV measurement of internal and external flow of an acoustically levitated droplet (Paper 24), Koji Hasegawa, Yutaka Abe, Akiko Kaneko and Kazuyoshi Aoki, University of Tsukuba,Tsukuba, Japan

14:55-15:20

2

Axial variation of mass transfer volumetric coefficients in bubble column bioreactors (Paper 21), León-Becerril Elizabeth and Maya-Yescas Rafael, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

15:20-15:45

3

Thermodynamics of droplet-to-bubble transition in phase-shift nanoemulsions (Paper 29), Natalya Rapoport, Alexey Efros and Kwon-Ho Nam, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

15:45-16:10

4

Transport phenomena in a bubbling fluidized bed with a rotating distributor (Paper 16), Antonio Soria-Verdugo, Néstor García-Hernando and Ulpiano Ruiz-Rivas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

16:10-16:25

 

Tea/Coffee Break

16:25-18:05

Session 10: Drops, Bubbles, and Particles II

Co-Chairs: Ichro Ueno & Natalya Rapoport

16:25-16:50

1

Numerical Simulation of the Confined Motion of Drops Using a Hybrid VOF/Level Set Method (Paper 62), Ali Borhan, Anthony Fick and Hossein Haj-Hariri, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

16:50-17:15

2

Transport of bubbles during compression in a non-Newtonian fluid (Paper 55), Lars G. Westerberg, N.E.J. Olsson and T. Staffan Lundström, Luleĺ University of Technology, Luleĺ, Sweden

17:15-17:40

3

Spatial structure and velocity fluctuations in turbulent bubble jets in microgravity (Paper 49), Pau Bitlloch, Xavier Ruiz, Laureano Ramirez-Piscina and Jaume Casademunt, Dept. d'Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, UB/IEEC, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

17:40-18:05

4

Fluid flow analysis of a two-dimensional sessile drop in linear shear flow (Paper 80), Hao-Kun Chu and S.S. Sadhal, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

18:05-19:00

Social Time and Informal Discussions on Sessions 6-10

19:00-20:30

Dinner

 

 

WEDNESDAY, October 7, 2009

07:00-08:00

Breakfast

 

 

08:00-10:05

Session 11: Interfacial Phenomena and Surfactants I

Co-Chairs: V.I. Polezhaev & Nivedita Gupta

08:00-08:50

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Beyond thin films (Paper 70), Stephen H. Davis (presented by Anthony Anderson), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

08:50-09:15

 

2

Using 3-D dense packing models to predict surface tension change due to protein adsorption (Paper 07), Joshua W. Lampe, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy and David M. Eckmann, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

09:15-09:40

3

Gas separation and bubble behaviour at a woven screen (Paper 11), Michael Conrath and Michael Dreyer, ZARM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

09:40-10:05

4

One-dimensional and three-dimensional computation of free surface flow (Paper 12), Aleksander Grah, Joerg Klatte and Michael E. Dreyer, ZARM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

10:05-10:20

 

Tea/Coffee Break

 

 

 

10:20-12:25

Session 12: Interfacial Phenomena and Surfactants II

Co-Chairs: Haruhiko Ohta & Amitabh Narain

10:20-11:10

 

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Formation of precursor film ahead macroscopic contact line of spreading droplet (Paper 38), Ichiro Ueno, Kanji Hirose and Yusuke Kizaki, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

11:10-11:35

 

2

Flow transition in a free rectangular liquid film under a temperature gradient (Paper 14), Toshiki Watanabe and Ichiro Ueno, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

11:35-12:00

3

Breakup of Surfactant-Laden Drops in Flow through Capillaries (Paper 64), Eisa Almatroushi, Ali Borhan and Sean Werber, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE

12:00-12:25

4

Drop Formation in Co-flowing Fluid Streams (Paper 77), Nivedita R Gupta and Yuanyuan Cui University of New Hampshire, Department of Chemical Enginering, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

POSTER

6

POSTER: Asymmetric Location of Anionic Phospholipids Vesicles (Paper 10), Francisco Torrens and Gloria Castellano, Universitat de Valencia-Institut Universitari de Ciencia Molecular, Edifici dInstituts de Paterna, Valencia  Spain

12:30-13:30

Lunch

14:00-18:00

Optional Excursion to San Gimignano / Free Time

18:00-19:30

Social Time

19:30-21:00

Dinner

 

 

THURSDAY, October 8, 2009

07:00-08:00

Breakfast

08:00-09:10

Session 13: Phase-Change Phenomena

Co-Chairs: Yoshiyuke Abe & Raj Manglik

08:00-08:50

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Shear driven and  gravity driven annular/stratified internal condensing flows.(Paper 75),  S. Mitra, Amitabh Narain,  S.D. Kulkarni, Jorge Kurita, M. Kivisalu and Mohammed S. Hasan, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

08:50-09:15

2

Rapid induction of heterogeneous ice nucleation in a biologically compatible coolant (Paper 57), Joshua W. Lampe, Diana Bull and Lance Becker, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

09:15-09:40

3

Sintering conditions and dielectric characterization of the Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 ceramics (Paper 59), C. Berbecaru, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

09:40-09:55

Tea/Coffee Break

09:55-10:15

4

Synthesis and Characterization of the Eulityte Glasses (Paper 60), C. Berbecaru, S. Polosan and H.V. Alexandru, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

10:15-10:40

5

Synthesis and characterization of thin BZT films for microwave applications (Paper 61), C. Berbecaru, L. Nedelcu, H. Alexandru, A. Ioachim, M.I. Toacsan and N. Scarisoreanu, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Poster

6

A mean field model for the phase diagram of benzene (Paper 04), Hamit Yurtseven, Sema Sen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

10:40-10:55

Tea/Coffee Break

 

Lunch

 

 

 

10:55-12:10

13:15-14:05

Session 14: Nanoscale and Microscale Transport Phenomena

Co-Chairs: Qin-Hui Zhang & S.S. Sadhal

10:55-11:20

1

Thermal Performance of Self-rewetting Fluid Heat Pipe Containing Dilute solutions of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by Microwave-Polyol Process (Paper 19), Masahide Sato, Yoshiyuki Abe, Yuuki Urita, Roberto Di Paola, Anselmo Cecere, and Raffaele Savino, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan

11:20-11:45

2

Micro-mixing and the role of multiple rotating and bending flaps (Paper 08), Ruth Anne Lambert and Roger H. Rangel, University of California, Irvine, California, USA

11:45-12:10

3

Transport of charge between zero dimensional nanostructures (Paper 42), Karel Kral, Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.

12:10-13:15

Lunch

13:15-13:40

4

 

A mixed basis perturbation approach to approximate the spectrum of Laplace operator (Paper 45), Matias Nordin, Martin Nilsson Jacobi and Magnus Nyden, Department of Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

13:40-14:05

5

Analytical Expressions for Mass Transport within Microfluidic Systems (Paper 68), Zimei Rong and Pankaj Vadgama, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

 

 

 

14:05-14:30

Tea/Coffee Break

 

 

14:30-16:00

Session 15: Transport Processes in Materials Technology I

Co-Chairs: Takeshi Okutani & Xavier Ruiz

14:30-15:30

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Spray Forming of Metal Foam Heat Exchangers (Paper 81), H.R. Salimijazi, Javad Mostaghimi, S. Chandra, L. Pershin, and T.W. Coyle, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

15:30-16:00

2

Liquid Transport in Polymer Matrixes (Paper 76), Drahosh Vesely, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.

 

 

 

16:00-16:15

Tea/Coffee Break

 

 

 

16:15-17:45

Session 16: Transport Processes in Materials Technology II

Co-Chairs: Javad Mostaghimi & Xavier Ruiz

16:15-17:15

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Effect of microgravity quality on unidirectional solidification of iron-rich Sm-Fe magnetostrictive alloys (Paper 26), Takeshi Okutani, Hiromichi Ono, Hideaki Nagai and Mikito Mamiya, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.

17:15-17:45

2

Combining Mathematical Modelling with Experimental Data to Characterize Fluid and Protein Transport in Hollow Fibre Scaffolds (Paper 46), Rebecca Shipley, Dr Marianne Ellis and Dr Sarah Waters, University of Oxford, Oxford,  UK

 

 

 

17:45-19:30

Social time and informal discussions on Sessions 13-16

19:30-21:30

Banquet

 

FRIDAY October 9, 2009

07:30-08:45

Breakfast

09:00-11:30

 

Session 17: General Papers in Transport Phenomena

Co-Chairs: Walter Grassi & S.S. Sadhal

09:00-09:50

1

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Interaction of the basic mechanisms of buoyancy-driven convection: fundamentals, technical and material sciences applications (Paper 05), V.I. Polezhaev and S.A. Nikitin, A.Yu., Ishlinsky Instutiute for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow, Russia

09:50-10:15

2

The impact of the solutal Marangoni convection in the accuracy of the diffusion coefficient measurement under µg conditions using shear cells (Paper 25), Xavier Ruiz and Jordi Pallares, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

10:15-10:40

3

Thermo-fluid analysis of a cylindrical collinear ohmic sterilizer in laminar flow (Paper 53), T. Pesso and S. Piva, ENDIF, Engineering Department in Ferrara, Ferrara, Italia

10:40-11:05

4

Electron Mirroring: control of electron transport and understanding of physical processes from SEM images (Paper 54), Marziale Milani, Claudio Savoia and Davide Bigoni, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano,  Italy

11:05-11:30

 

Conference Adjournment of Technical Sessions and Wrap-Up

12:00-13:00

 

Lunch