Supported by the TUM Global Incentive Fund and SPRINT project from the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Professor Gherhardt Ribatski from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) visited us for one week. He delivered a lecture on “The Role of Liquid Film Characteristics in Heat Transfer during Flow Boiling and Convective Condensation” on 24 Oct. 2024
Dr. Gherhardt Ribatski is Full Professor of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer at the São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He received his BS, MSc. and Doctoral Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of São Paulo. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Universidade da Coruña. His research interests cover pool boiling, falling-film evaporation and condensation, two-phase flows, flow induced vibration, flow boiling and condensation for external and internal flows, heat transfer enhancement, heat exchangers, phase change in microchannels, IR thermography wastewater treatment and solar energy. Prof. Ribatski is a member of the Congress Committee of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and a Brazilian Delegate to the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. He is a member of the Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Virtual Institute of Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer, and Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT). He was Director Secretary (2016-2017) and is member and President of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2018-2021). He has served as coordinator of the CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel- Brazil) committee for the evaluation of graduate programs in the areas of Mechanical, Mechatronics, Naval and Ocean, Aeronautical, Industrial and Petroleum Engineering. He is a member of the area panel of Engineering of FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation – Brazil) and was Coordinator of the Graduate Program of Mechanical Engineering at São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC) of the University of São Paulo (USP) from 2014 to 2019.
This visit aims to develop bilateral collaboration by applying for and conducting co-funded projects and promoting staff and student mobility between TUM and USP.