Speaker: Wang Chuankai, Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Time: 13:30, December 13, 2024
Location: Conference Room 303, 17th Floor (School of Mechanical Engineering)
Brief introduction to the report:
The fluid-solid interface plays an important role in the frontier fields of energy conversion, catalysis, heat and mass transfer, microfluidic and so on. Although the heterogeneity of the fluid-solid interface enforces efficient energy conversion in various physical fields (force/heat/electricity), the underlying mechanism is still at the surface. The field matching theory is proposed to illustrate how heterogeneity enables energy conversion at fluid-solid interfaces, and to open up new avenues for deeper analysis and synthesis of natural and engineered heterogeneous interface systems.
