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A two-day, brain-storming Nanofluids Workshop at Northern Illinois University with visit to Argonne National Laboratory and NIU’s Institute for NanoScience, Engineering & Technology facilities, is proposed, with the objectives to invite pioneer-researchers and scholars in this frontier area of research, to exchange their up-to-date experiences, ideas and excitements, and to discuss future research directions and possibilities for collaboration. Everyone should benefit from this two-day, focused but open-minded, experience-and-idea exchange activities.
This Workshop is prompted by a recent initiative by NIU’s Mechanical Engineering Department of collaborative research with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and NIU’s Institute for NanoScience, Engineering & Technology (InSET), to create and investigate new advanced Drag-Reduction-nanofluids ( dubbed DRnanofluids) with an objective to enhance heat-transfer properties and reduce flow friction, and thus create advanced heat-transfer fluids. Professor Kostic of NIU has been collaborating with Dr. Choi of ANL, full-time for three months in last summers, on development and investigation of flow and heat transfer characteristics of new DRnanofluids. Considering unique properties of Drag-Reduction fluids (strong flow-friction reduction in turbulent flow, prior research - including Kostic’s team), very promising results with Nanofluids (strong heat-transfer enhancement, recent research - including Choi’s team), and ANL and InSET research resources in nano-science (including development of advanced photon source techniques in coherent x-ray scattering to characterize dynamic and static structural properties of nano-materials by Dr. Lurio’s team), new potentials and possibly new discoveries are anticipated. Possible applications in electronic equipment and industrial cooling, including transportation and power generation, as well as heat management in various critical applications, including fuel cells, are promising.
The proposed, two-day Nanofluids Workshop (dates to be agreed upon) may start on Thursday late-morning with visit to ANL’s Nanofluids and Nanoscience facilities and Key-note, dinner presentations at NIU. The following day, on Friday, key-presentations and brain-storming sessions will follow with visit to NIU’s InSET facilities, and end with closing, early-dinner session and recommendations for future research and collaboration.
Accommodation, food, and other workshop expenses will be provided by the organizers and sponsors, while participants will pay for their own transportation only. We look forward to intensive, productive and mind-inspiring gathering, a win-win opportunity for all.
For further information contact M. Kostic:
kostic@niu.edu
www.kostic.niu.edu/DRnanofluids