Presentation Title：OpenFOAM Year in Review

Hrvoje Jasak is the Gianna Angelopoulos Professor of Continuum Physics, at the Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He also holds a Professorship at the University of Zagreb and a Mercator Fellowship at TU Darmstadt, Germany. Furthermore, he is one of the two original co-authors of OpenFOAM, Chair of the OpenFOAM Numerics Technical Committee and a member of OpenFOAM Governance Steering Committee. He is also the founder and managing director of Wikki Ltd. Hrvoje Jasak has his first degree from the University of Zagreb (1992), and Ph.D. from Imperial College London. He was a Senior Development Engineer at CD-adapco (now Siemens PLM) (1996-2000), Technical Director at Nabla Ltd (2000-2006), and has worked on new generation software at Ansys-Fluent Inc. (2000-2008).

Presentation Title：Numerical Simulation Techniques for Water-Air-Bubble Mixture Flows

Decheng Wan is a Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Marine Hydrodynamics (CMHL) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, . He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Dalian University of Technology and his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an Elsevier global highly cited scholar, and has won the International Ocean Engineering CH Kim Scholar Award, and serves as the editorial board member of 8 international journals including Ocean Engineering, Journal of Hydrodynamics, etc. His main research focuses on hydrodynamics of ships and ocean engineering, computational fluid dynamics and hydrodynamic CAE software, extreme sea conditions and wave loads, fluid-solid coupling and vortex-induced vibration (motion), turbulence simulation and flow noise, offshore wind power and renewable energy development device performance, hydrodynamic configuration and optimization of ocean structures based on CFD and machine learning, big data and deep learning for ship comprehensive performance prediction. 

Presentation Title：Liquid Fuel Spray Detonation Modelling with OpenFOAM

Huangwei Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is also a researcher at the NUS (Chongqing) Research Institute and the NUS Hydrogen Energy Innovation Center. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Beihang University in 2007 and 2009 respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a research assistant at Peking University. In 2015, he obtained his PhD in Combustion from the University of Cambridge, where he also served as a postdoctoral researcher from 2015 to 2017. His research interests include detonation, engines and propulsion, multiphase combustion, thermal management, safety of low-carbon fuels, and lithium-ion batteries. He has published nearly 100 journal papers in the fields of combustion and fluid mechanics and is a Senior Member of AIAA and a member of the International Combustion Institute.

Presentation Title：Overview of FireFOAM – Development, Application and Future Directions

Dr. Yi Wang is the Staff Vice President of FM Global, and the manager of the Fire Dynamics group in the Research Division. At FM Global, he oversees the research activities of CFD fire modeling, material flammability, fire dynamics and testing, as well as battery fire safety. Dr. Wang serves on the editorial boards of Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Fire and Materials. He chairs the fire research colloquium of the International Symposium on Combustion 2024. He is also a committee member, and scientific program co-chair of the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS).

Presentation Title: The OpenFOAM Journal: A Community-Driven Project

J. Miguel Nóbrega is an Associate Professor at the Polymer Engineering Department within the University of Minho and a member of the Institute for Polymers and Composites. He completed his PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Minho in 2004. He is the area leader in Digital Transformation in Manufacturing for the MIT Portugal program. In addition, he serves as the editor of OpenFOAM Wiki and the OpenFOAM Journal, a founding member of the Iberian OpenFOAM Technology Users, and is a part of the OpenFOAM Workshop Committee. His research focuses on three interconnected domains: product development, polymer processing, and material rheology. In addition to his academic and research commitments, he is a member of the Guimarães Science Museum Directory Board, contributing to the promotion of public awareness and understanding of science-related matters.