Organizing Committee Chair

Prof. Mohsen Sharifpur

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Biography:

Mohsen Sharifpur is a full professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, his Master of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering (Reactor thermal-fluid), and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering (thermal-fluid). His research area is enhancing heat transfer, including mathematical modelling, thermal fluid behaviour and stability of nanofluids, improvement of heat transfer by nanofluids, convective multiphase flow, phase-change materials, computational fluid dynamics, and Fluid Dynamics from Nanoscale to Universe scale. He established a Nanofluid Research Laboratory at the University of Pretoria in 2010, one of Africa's most active and productive nanofluid research laboratories. He is an innovative thinker and, based on fluid dynamics, constructal law, nature and patterns in nature, and cosmology data, he invented a new general and multidiscipline theory as the “Source and Sink Theory”.