At 22:00, January 22, Beijing time, the International Multiphase Flow Technology Forum (IMFTF) held an online meeting through Zoom. This is the first meeting of IMFTF since 2021. The meeting was attended by 10 committee members from 6 countries around the world.
The meeting was hosted by committee member Professor Yao Jun from the Thermal Engineering Department of China University of Petroleum (Beijing). He expressed his gratitude to all committee members for their great support for IMFTF in the past year. He introduced that the purpose of this meeting was to discuss the new year’s plan of IMFTF.
IMFTF has held an online meeting in December last year, inviting two of the four new committee members to give presentations. Professor Yao Jun proposed that IMFTF plans to hold another online meeting in March and invite two other new committee members to give reports. All the committee members who attended the meeting agreed with the plan and then discussed whether the meeting should be open to the public.
Due to COVID-19, the IMFTF 2021 Committee Meeting originally scheduled to be held in Beijing in September may not be held as expected. Professor Yao Jun asked everyone for their opinions on how to hold this meeting in a new way. All the committee members agreed that without deferring the meeting to next year, the meeting can be held online for serval days, or changed into a series of webinars with selected topics. However, how to solve the problem of time difference and the limitation of online meeting still needs further discussion.
In addition, the committee also discussed other work plans, such as continuing to expand the number of committee members and inviting international masters in the field of multiphase flow to give a report. Professor Yao Jun said that he would like to thank everyone for your valuable opinions on the new year’s plan of IMFTF. All the suggestions and comments will be collected and a detailed work plan will be made after the meeting. The meeting lasted for about 1 hour.
IMFTF was initiated on January 10, 2020 by China University of Petroleum (Beijing) and was established based on Worldwide Energy University Network (WEUN). Up to now, IMFTF Committee Members come from 13 well-known universities in 7 countries. The forum aims at facilitating the academic exchange and experience sharing worldwide in the field of multiphase flow. Its main objectives are promoting scientific and technical communication as well as fostering collaborations among researchers.
Edited by Fan Xiaoyuan
