UEC students receive prestigious awards at international conference

Two UEC graduate students studying at the same laboratory were awarded prizes for their presentations at the 23rd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, held in Chiba, Japan, 17-21 May 2015.

Naoki Miyano received the best poster prize (1) and Kazuhiro Kaiho the best paper prize (2). Miyano and Kaiho are both master's degree students at UEC's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems studying under the supervision of Professor Tomio Okawa.

Further information

Website of the 23^rd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, held in Chiba, Japan, 17-21 May 2015:

http://www.icone23.org/about.html

Related technical publications

1. Kazuhiro Kaiho, Tomoyuki Kajihara, Tomio Okawa, 2015. Visualization of bubble nucleation process during water subcooled flow boiling using a transparent heated surface, 23rd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE23-1121. [Best Paper Award]
2. Naoki Miyano, Tomio Okawa, Takafumi Suginaka, 2015. Study of bubble lift off from a vertical heated surface in pool boiling, 23rd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE22-1123. [Best Poster Award]
3. Tomio Okawa, Muhamad Zuhairi Bin Sulaiman, Daisuke Matsuo, 2014. Experimental study on the critical heat flux and heat transfer coefficient in nanofluid pool boiling, 10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety, NUTHOS10- 1346.
4. Tomio Okawa, 2015. Enhancing Numerical Stability of a Two-Fluid Model by the Use of Interfacial Pressure Terms, ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 021001-11.