Yuwen Zhang, FAAAS, FASME
Curators' Distinguished Professor
Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
E3408 Lafferre Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Email: zhangyu@missouri.edu
National and International Conference Services
Conference Organizers
Congress Co-Chair, the 11th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM 2025), Paris, France, August 19 - 21, 2025.
Congress Co-Chair, the 10th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM 2024), Barcelona, Spain, August 22 - 24, 2024.
Congress Co-Chair, the 9th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM 2023), London, United Kingdom, August 6 - 8, 2023.
Congress Co-Chair, the 8th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'22), Prague, Czech Republic, July 31 - August 2, 2022.
Congress Co-Chair, the 7th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'21), held virtually, August 2-4, 2021.
Program Committee Member, the 4th International Conference on Advances in Engineering (AE 2020), November 28-29, 2020, Dubai, UAE
Congress Co-Chair, the 6th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'20), held virtually, August 16-18, 2020.
Technical Program Chair for Heat Transfer Division (HTD), ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov 8–14, 2019.
Member of Scientific Committee, the 6th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTFF), Lisbon, Portugal, Aug 16–18, 2019.
Member of the Technical Program Committee and Co-Chair for Track 6: Micro/Nanoscale Energy Devices and Systems, the 6th ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer (MNHMT-19), Dalian, China, July 8-10, 2019.
Organizing Committee Member, the 7th International Conference on Green Energy, Green Engineering and Technology (Green Technologies 2018), Berlin, Germany, Sep 20–21, 2018.
Member of Scientific Committee, the 5th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTFF), Madrid, Spain, Aug 19–21, 2018.
Member of Scientific Committee, the 4th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTFF), Rome, Italy, Jun 9–10, 2017.
Conference Co-Chair, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering 2017-01 (ICAME 2017-01), Parvathipuram, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India, May 19–20, 2017.
Conference Organization Committee, the 2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference and 4th International Workshop on Heat Transfer, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Apr 2–5, 2017.
Member of International Scientific Committee, the 5th International Symposium on Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation (ISHTEC2016), Guangzhou, China, Nov 11–13, 2016.
Member of Scientific Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTFF), Budapest, Hungary, Aug 22–23, 2016.
Member of the Technical Program Committee and co-Chair for Track 6: Micro/Nanoscale Energy Devices and Systems, ASME 2016 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT-16), Singapore, Jan 3–6, 2016.
Member of International Scientific and Advisory Committee, International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conversion and Pollution Control (IWHT2015), Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 16–19, 2015.
Member of Scientific Committee, the 2nd International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTFF), Barcelona, Spain, Jul 20–21, 2015.
Member of Scientific Committee, International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTFF), Prague, Czech Republic, Aug, 11–12, 2014.
Member of Scientific Committee, International Heat Transfer Symposium, Beijing, China, May 6–9, 2014.
Chair for Track 6: Micro/Nanoscale Energy Devices and Systems, ASME 2013 4th Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Hong Kong, China, Dec 11–14, 2013.
Member of International Scientific and Advisory Committee, the 2nd International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conversion and Pollution Control (IWHT2013), Xi’an, China, Oct 18–21, 2013.
Track Chair for Track 9: Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing, ASME 2013 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Jul 14–19, 2013.
Member of International Scientific Committee, 11th International Heat Pipe Symposium, Beijing, China, Jun 9–12, 2013.
Topic Co-Organizer, Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing, ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX, Nov 9–15, 2012.
Topic Co-Organizer, Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing and Applications, ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX, Nov 9–15, 2012.
Track Co-Chair for Track 8: Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Puerto Rico, Jul 8–12, 2012.
Member of Technical Program Committee and Co-Organizer for Track 12: Micro/Miniature Two-Phase Devices, ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, Mar 3–6, 2012.
Topic Co-Organizer, Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, Nov 11–17, 2011.
Member of International Scientific and Advisory Committee, 2011 International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conversion and Pollution Control (IWHT’2011), Xi’an, China, Oct 17–21, 2011.
Track Co-Chair for Track 14: Micro/Miniature Two-Phase Devices, ASME 2009 Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Transfer International Conference, Shanghai, China, Dec 18–21, 2009.
Track Chair for Track 9: Heat Transfer in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2008 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jacksonville, FL, Aug, 10–14, 2008.
K-15 Committee on Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing, 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Seattle, WA, Nov 11–15, 2007.
Track Chair for Track 6: Aerospace & Vehicular Flows and Heat Transfer, ASME 2004 Summer Heat Transfer/Fluid Engineering Conference, Charlotte, NC, Jul 11-15, 2004.
Session Chairs and Co-Chairs
Session Chair, Keynote Lecture - Fundamental Challenges of Building Digital Twins, the 9th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'23), London, United Kingdom, August 6 - 8, 2023.
Session Chair, Keynote Lecture - Machine Learning and Automatic Mesh Optimization: Watershed Technologies for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Optimal Simulations, the 9th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'23), London, United Kingdom, August 6 - 8, 2023.
Session Chair, Fluid Measurements and Instrumentation - II, the 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 14-17, 2019.
Session Chair, Flow and Heat Transfer in Materials Processing Science and Manufacturing, the 2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference and 4th International Workshop on Heat Transfer, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2–5, 2017.
Session Chair, Computational Modeling - Thermal Simulations, ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Phoenix, AZ, November 11–27, 2016.
Session Chair, Micro/Nanoscale Energy Devices and Systems, ASME 2016 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT-16), Singapore, January 3–6, 2016.
Session Co-Chair, Micro- and Nano Channel and Nanofluids, the First Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, New York City, August 9–12, 2015.
Session Co-Chair, Multiphase and Phase Change Phenomena, the First Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, New York City, August 9–12, 2015.
Session Chair, Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing (including Additive) and Materials Processing, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, November 14–20, 2014.
Session Co-Organizer, Heat Transfer Plenary Lecture-II, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, November 14–20, 2014.
Session Chair, Nanoparticles and Nanofluids, ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, CA, November 15–21, 2013.
Session Chair, Thermophysical Properties of Solids and Fluids, ASME 2013 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 14–19, 2013.
Session Chair, Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing and Applications, ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX, November 9–15, 2012.
Session Chair, Thermal Processing at the Nano-Micro-Macroscale, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Puerto Rico, July 8–12, 2012.
Session Co-Chair, Concepts and Applications for Manufacturability of Energy Materials, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Puerto Rico, July 8–12, 2012.
Session Chair, Micro/Miniature Two-Phase Devices, ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3–6, 2012.
Session Co-Chair, Fundamental Physics of Nano/Microscale Phase-Change Heat Transfer, ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3–6, 2012.
Session Chair, Heat Transfer for Green and Renewable Energy, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, November 11–17, 2011.
Session Co-Chair, Experimental Heat Transfer 1, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, November 11–17, 2011.
Session Chair, Heat Transfer and Multiphase Flows, 42nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27–30 2011.
Session Chair, Laser and Multiphase in Thermal Processing and Applications, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, FL, November 13–19, 2009.
Session Co-Chair, “Micro-Scale Thermophysics & Nanotechnology,” 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 22–25, 2009.
Session Co-Chair, “Thermophysical Properties,” 47th Aerospace Science Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 5–8, 2009
Session Co-Chair, “Heat and Mass Transfer in Nanomanufacturing,” 2008 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jacksonville, FL, August, 10–14, 2008.
Session Co-Chair, “Miniature Loop Heat Pipes/Oscillating Heat Pipes,” Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer International Conference, Tainan, Taiwan, January 6–9, 2008
Session Chair, “Heat Pipes,” 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Seattle, WA, November 11–15, 2007
Session Chair, “Transport Phenomena in Laser Material Interaction and Processing,” 2007 ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Conference and Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 8–12, 2007
Session Chair, “Heat Pipes,” 2007 ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Conference and Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 8–12, 2007
Session Chair, “Melting and Solidification in Manufacturing and Materials Processing,” 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Chicago, IL, Nov. 5–10, 2006
Session Chair, “Heat Pipes,” 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Orlando, FL, Nov. 5–11, 2005
Session Chair, “Multiphase Heat-Mass Transfer/Melting and Solidification in Manufacturing and Materials Processing,” 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Orlando, FL, Nov. 5–11, 2005
Topic Organizer/Session Chair, “Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing,” 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Summer Conference’ 05, San Francisco, CA, July 17–22, 2005.
Session Chair, “Transport Phenomena in Solidification and Melting,” 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Anaheim, CA, November 13–19, 2004
Session Chair, “Multiphase Heat-Mass Transfer/Melting and Solidification in Manufacturing and Materials Processing,” 2004 ASME Heat Transfer/Fluid Engineering Summer Conference, Charlotte, NC, July 11–15, 2004
Session Co-Chair, “Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing,” 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Washington, DC, Nov. 15–21, 2003
Session Co-Chair, “Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing,” 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, NV, July 20–23, 2003
Session Co-Chair, “Transport Phenomena During Crystal Growth,” 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, NV, July 20–23, 2003