Prof Sergei Sazhin at University of Brighton UK visited HEG on May 22 and gave a talk on "A combined analytical/ numerical approach to modelling heat/mass transfer processes".

Biography
Professor Sergei SAZHIN received his PhD (Physics) from St Petersburg State University (Russia) in 1977. Currently, he is working as Professor of Thermal Physics at the University of Brighton (UK). He has developed and delivered lecture courses in many subjects including Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics for 4th year engineering students. Since 2000, he has supervised 15 PhD students to successful completion. He is the author of more than 600 publications, including 5 monographs, 10 book chapters and 275 papers in international refereed journals. His current ISI Web of Science (Google Scholar) citation index is 40 (55). He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) since 1994, was Chairman of the scientific committee of the 27th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (University of Brighton, 2016), a Leadership in Research Excellence Awardee at the University of Brighton (2017) and has been a Member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) since 2018. His previous research focused on the development of asymptotic models for wave propagation in a hot plasma, and modelling of the processes in thermodynamically non-equilibrium systems (gas lasers). Russian principal investigator of joint Russian-Chinese project ‘Spray nebulization of drugs and their targeted delivery to the respiratory tract’ (2024-2026). His current research interests focus on the numerical and asymptotic modelling of fluid dynamics, heat/mass transfer, and combustion processes in sprays.