Plenary lectures

Professor Bui Van Ga, General Editor of the Journal Science and Technology-the University of Danang (JST-UD); Professor; Doctor of Science (1994), Doctor of the École Centrale de Lyon (1989), Engineer in Mechanics of Danang University of Science and Technology (1980).

He was Vice Minister, Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, responsible for Higher Education, Science-Technology and International Relations (2010-2018).

Before being Vice Minister, he was President of the University of Danang (2005-2010), Rector of Danang University of Science and Technology (2004-2005), Director of the Danang University Institute of Technology (2000-2004), Director of the Research Center for Environmental Protection of the University of Danang.

He was visiting professor at IUT1, Joseph Fourier University, IUT of Anger, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France).

He is a Member of different International and National Societies: the Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) Vietnam, Society of Mechanics Vietnam, Member of the Board of Directors of French Speaking University in ASEAN…

He has been research team leader of several projects funded by international organizations such as AUF (French Speaking Universities), CIDA (Canadian Agent for International Development),…

He was distinguished by “Prix Scientifique de la Francophonie” 2003; First Prize for Scientific Research of the City of Danang 2003; Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Nantes.

He is the author of 11 patents, more than 250 publications, 10 books; director of 23 PhD thesis.

His research is in the field of Fluid Mechanics, Combustion, Pollution, Renewable Energies, Renewable fuels, Hybrid renewable power generation system...

Prof. Baoshan Zhu obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Tsinghua University, China in 1990 and 1994. Then he obtained his doctor's degree from the Yakohama National University, Japan in 1999. Currently, he is a professor of the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. His main research focus on fluid machinery, renewable energy, computational fluid dynamics and vortex methods. He served as a member of various academic organizations and is the organizer of the International Conference of Pumps and Fans, Tsinghua University, China. He has delivered a series of academic presentations at international conferences, and has published a serious of papers in authoritative journals such as the ASME journals and Renewable Energy in fluid machinery and flow engineering.

Kwang-Yong Kim received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1981 and 1987, respectively.

He is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Inha University, Korea, and serves as a Director of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Previously, he held the position of Dean of the College of Engineering at Inha University.

Throughout his career, Dr. Kim has played key roles in several prestigious academic and professional organizations. He has served as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering; Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems; Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers; President of the Korean Society for Fluid Machinery; and Chairman of the Asian Fluid Machinery Committee.

Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the ASME Open Journal of Engineering and an Editorial Board Member of Micromachines.

Dr. Kim is a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

In recognition of his contributions, he has been honored with the Order of Service Merit (“Yellow Stripes”) and the Order of Science and Technology Merit (“Doyak Medal”) from the Republic of Korea.

His research focuses on the application of numerical optimization techniques using various surrogate models and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for designing fluid machinery, heat-transfer augmentation devices, micro heat sinks, micro mixers, coolant channels in nuclear reactors, and more.

He has published approximately 430 peer-reviewed journal papers and presented around 580 papers at international and domestic conferences.

Kazuyoshi Miyagawa is a professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at WASEDA University in Tokyo, Japan. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from WASEDA University and his doctoral degree from Osaka University, Japan. He has served as President of the Turbomachinery Society of Japan (2023, 2024) and Chairman of JSME Fluid Engineering (2022). He chaired the 29th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems (IAHR2018) in Kyoto and the 18th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery (ISROMAC2020). He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of the Global Power & Propulsion Society (GPPS). He worked at the Takasago R&D Centre of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for 26 years before joining WASEDA University in 2011. During his tenure, he researched and developed various types of turbomachinery for propulsion, power generation, and life infrastructure applications, including rocket turbopumps, turbochargers, compressors, hydro turbines, pump-turbines, and various pumps. He continues to study such turbomachinery at the university. His research interests include internal flow, flow-induced vibration, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), cavitation, optimized design, multiphase flows, and related areas, with a particular focus on achieving carbon neutrality.

Prof. Shouqi Yuan is a leader in the field of irrigation and drainage machinery, and he has achieved representative results in the fields of theory of agricultural submersible pump, theory and technology of high-efficiency centrifugal pump, and new agricultural water-saving irrigation equipment.

He created the non-overload hydraulic design theory and the enlarged flow design method to increase the pump efficiency by 2%-8% of submersible pumps. He established the constraint equation system of non-overload hydraulic design theory for the first time all over the world, which is widely used in the entire industry.

He conducted systematic research on the key technologies, series products and standards of submersible pumps, and more than 400 types of submersible pump series products in four categories were developed. Nearly 1,000 companies across China were supported by the technology transfer, accounting for about more than 60% of China's total submersible pump output, with an annual output of more than 10 million units, which are widely used in farmland irrigation and the Three Gorges Project, the largest hydropower station in the world. It has made outstanding contributions to China's submersible pump industry. This achievement won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2007.

He revealed the unstable flow mechanism of the cavitation inception and rotor-stator interaction in centrifugal pump and the key scientific problems of high efficiency and high cavitation performance design were overcome through the optimization design of impeller blade geometry and the inducer technology.

The multi-condition hydraulic design technology of centrifugal pump was proposed and created, which supplied design solutions for products with the requirement of 3 to 5 working conditions in the pump industry, and the weighted average efficiency is increased by more than 2 percentage points.

For the low operation efficiency problem of centrifugal pump system, he established an operation model by adjusting pressure which can save more than 15% energy. The research results have been widely adopted by the pump companies, leading the technological development of China's pump industry. This achievement won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014.

He revealed the influence of the technical parameters of light-small irrigation units on energy consumption indicators, developed a series of multi-functional spray equipment, invented the gap-controlled complete fluidic sprinklers and variable-rate sprinklers, and solved the industrial problems such as the complexity of driving mechanism for traditional sprinkler.

A new type of flow-ejecting self-priming spray pump is proposed, which breaks through the bottleneck that efficiency and self-priming performance are difficult to improve at the same time, the efficiency is increased by 5-9 percentage points, and the self-priming time is shortened by 20%.

More than 10 new type light-small sprinkler irrigation systems and products with low energy consumption have been developed, and 2 patents in United States are granted:
- Double-nozzle injector capable of spraying evenly at medium and low pressure, PCT/CN2013/075983, US 9,770,729 B2, 2017-09-26.
- Detachable frame of light-small sprinkling machine for precise irrigation, PCT/CN2016/076438, US 10,375,905 B2, 2019-08-13.

This achievement won the first prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education of China in 2011 and the first prize of China Agricultural Water Saving Technology in 2012.

In response to the low efficiency of large irrigation and drainage pumping station projects, he innovated hydraulic design methods and developed a series of high-efficiency hydraulic models and vertical pump devices, which are widely used in the South-to-North Water Transfer Project (approximately 70% of domestic models in east route) in China and other large-scale water conservancy projects.

This achievement won the first prize of the 2018 China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement.

He has supervised more than 200 masters, doctors and postdocs, and one of them has won the Top 100 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Award in China. He was also awarded the title of 'Top Ten Graduate Supervisors' in Jiangsu Province, China.

As the chief contributor, he has won:
- 2 second prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Award.
- 1 second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award.
- 4 first prizes of provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.
- 2 US invention patent authorizations and 98 Chinese invention patent authorizations.

He is working as the member of ISO technical committee for irrigation and drainage equipment and systems (ISO/TC 23/SC 18), and developed 11 national and industry standards for water pumps and water-saving irrigation equipment in China.

He published 296 papers as the first or corresponding author, of which 90 and 167 papers were indexed by SCI and EI database respectively, and 13 books were published.

As the discipline leader, he established:
- The National Research Center of Pumps of China.
- The National Center for International Research on Energy-Saving Technologies of Fluid Engineering Equipment of China.

He has long served as:
- Vice chairman of the Chinese Agricultural Machinery Society and the Chinese Agricultural Engineering Society.
- Chairman of Asian Fluid Machinery Committee.
- Co-organizer of Symposium on Fluid Machinery of ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting.
- Chairman of more than 10 important international conferences.

Based on Prof. Yuan's outstanding engineering accomplishments, he won:
- The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China.
- The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Achievement Award.
- The Leading Talents of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program in China.
- The Asian Fluid Machinery Distinguished Engineer Award.
- The Meritorious Medal of Chinese Agricultural Machinery Industry for the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening.
- The Outstanding Figure in the 60th Anniversary of China's Development of Agricultural Mechanization.
- The Outstanding Contribution Award of National Agricultural Water-Saving of China.