Modeling of Mass Transport Processes in Biological Media

Sid Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and is a recipient of the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant. He has held academic positions in Germany, the United States, and New Zealand. His research is primarily in computational and analytical modelling of heat and mass transfer processes in biological media. Dr. Becker is also the editor of the book Modeling of Microscale Transport in Biological Processes (2017) and co-editor of the books Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Processes (2015), and Transport in Biological Media (2013). Dr. Kuznetsov is Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. He holds a joint professorial position at the University of North Carolina’s Biomedical Engineering Department. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering, an Editorial Board Member of the Proceeding of the Royal Society A, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Porous Media. He is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. In 2014, Dr. Kuznetsov was elected as a Member of the Scientific Council of the International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer. He has published more than 400 journal papers, 17 book chapters, 3 books, and 100 conference papers. His works have been cited over 12,000 times: he has an h-index of 51 and an i-10 index of over 220. While his most notable early contributions are in the development of the field of porous media, Prof. Kuznetsov’s research interests in the general area of numerical modeling are extensive, including transport in living tissues, sub-cellular transport, mass transport in neurons and axons, bioheat transport, bioconvective sedimentation, fluid mechanics, flows in microgravity, and turbulence. Dr. de Monte is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of L’Aquila, Italy. He served as a full-time Visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1992, and a seasonal Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, USA, in 2007 up to 2014. Also, he is a Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and holds editorial positions at the Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (ASME), Mathematical Problems in Engineering and Heat Transfer Engineering (here as guest editor). He was the Chairman of the 10th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering (ICIPE 22), May 15-19, 2022, Francavilla al Mare (Chiet), Italy, and is co-author of the Wiley 2nd Edition book: Inverse Heat Conduction: Ill-Posed Problems (Spring 2023), by Woodbury, Najafi, de Monte and Beck. Giuseppe Pontrelli is a research director at Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo of CNR in Rome. His research interests include applied mathematics, continuum mechanics and numerical analysis with application in biofluid dynamics, physiological flows at micro and nanoscale, mass transport, drug delivery systems. Over the years, he has worked on many research projects and developed, with a multi-disciplinary approach, mathematical models and computational methods for complex systems related to health.?He is the author of over 80 papers in international scientific periodicals and book chapters?and an associate editor of journals focusing on the above themes. Dr. Dan Zhao is a tenured faculty in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the director of Master Engineering studies and the Chief Editor of International Journal of Aerospace Engineering; an Associate Editor of 1) AIAA Journal, 2) Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3) Aerospace Science and Technology. He is also an editorial board member of Progress in Aerospace Sciences and Journal of Thermal Science. After graduating from Cambridge, he worked in London in a high-tech company as a R&D engineer and Singapore University. Currently, Dan is Associate Fellow of AIAA (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). Dan’s research interests include applying theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches to study porous medium, combustion instability, thermoacoustics, fabric drying, energy conversion, heat and mass transfer, fluid-structure interaction, aeroacoustics, aerodynamics, propulsion and energy harvesting.

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