Phase Change Phenomena in a Decarbonizing World

The third meeting of the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Phenomena aims to provide grounds for discussion of all topics regarding both fundamental research and applications of phase change heat transfer among young researchers. Graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and early-career industrial scientists are invited to present their latest advances and discoveries to their peers with the aim of facilitating a discussion of the results and building connections to enhance future research directions. This GRS brings together multi-disciplinary expertise world-wide to construct active discussions and inspire new ideas in the heat transfer community, specifically related to fundamental mechanisms governing phase change processes and how these mechanisms interact to prescribe how component technologies and systems can be designed and run in a decarbonizing world. Topics within the conference include processes occurring at the three-phase contact line, the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase change material and thermochemical energy storage, the design of materials and surfaces using advanced manufacturing techniques which are able to control phase change, advances in the simulation and numerical modeling of phase change processes, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods for characterizing and predicting phase change mechanisms, new and novel experimental methods for measuring the extent of phase change, and phase change processes occurring in novel refrigerant working fluids relevant to decarbonization.