17th UK Heat Transfer Conference

Welcome

On behalf of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, we extend a very warm welcome to all participants!

While this is the 17th UK Heat Transfer Conference, it is the first of those seventeen to be held on-line. This innovation, while caused by the Covid-19 pandemic with its succession of variants, has brought many opportunities for experimentation and innovation – something that surely lies close to the heart of all serious researchers! Thus, we have been able to extend the technical programme to three full days (giving presenters longer to speak) while substantially reducing registration fees. And, without the need for any printed paperwork, we have been able to extend the deadline for submitting final papers. Moreover, for the first time, all poster authors have the opportunity to introduce their work in one of three oral sessions - and this also includes the new category of ‘Latest Results’ papers where brief 3-page contributions could be submitted up to February 14th, 2022.

Finally, an on-line conference makes it so much easier for overseas researchers to contribute to our meeting. We are delighted that more than 45% of the papers contributed to the present conference are from overseas, thus enriching our conference by the quality and distinctive national directions of their research coverage! So, while we hope that the 18th UKHTC will again become principally an in-person meeting, perhaps some of the positive experiences from the present on-line meeting can be retained.

A major factor in determining the success of our conference will be the Gather conference platform. We felt that it was the best available platform for our type of conference, especially for the opportunities it offers for interactions with poster presenters, with other participants, and with instrument manufacturers and journal editors, several of whom are attending the conference. In any event we would welcome feedback from participants on what their experiences have been.