报告承办单位：土木与环境工程学院
报告内容：Heat and mass transfer coupled phase change contribution to the city of the future design
报告人姓名：EL GANAOUI
报告人所在单位： University of Lorraine
报告人职称/职务及学术头衔：Dr/Full Professor
报告时间：4月26日（周日）9:30
报告地点：工科二号楼B302
报告人简介：
Prof. M. El-GANAOUI is a full professor at the University of Lorraine and researcher in the Jacques Villermaux Federation for mechanics, energy and processes (FR 28 63/LERMAB). He is heading the research in energy in the Henri Poincaré Institute of Technology in Longwy. Previously, he was an associate professor in the University of Limoges and the SPCTS UMR 6638 CNRS laboratory where he was responsible for the Physics Department (2004-2010) and the international cooperation service (2006- 2010) in the Faculty of science and technology. His research aims to understand heat and mass transfers through modeling and numerical simulation with a specific activity in the field of the solid -liquid-vapor phase change. Applications concern materials and energy and benefit to energy systems including phenomena for sustainable building (Eco-materials). He teaches the mechanics of continuous media, heat transfers, and numerical methods. He was advisor of more than 40 Phd Thesis with strong international interaction noticeably in the Euro-Mediterranean context. He participated/managed the PAI Australia, Canada, Maghreb (Tassili, Utique, Volubilis), China (Xugangqi). El Ganaoui has participated in the Edition of more than 15 special issues and conference proceedings, co-authored over than 250 publications in journals (rank A) and participated in more than 120 international conferences including twenty he co-organized. He is member of many international scientific societies in mechanics and heat transfers.
报告摘要：
The city of the future, design, and interests in sustainable urban living rely on advanced materials that enable smart energy management. Phase-Change Materials (PCMs) provide high potential development of this vision, storing and releasing latent heat near target temperatures for passive thermal regulation and compact energy storage. Modeling solid–liquid transitions has long informed thermofluidic understanding in CFD and has been central to M. El Ganaoui’s research. Since the late 1990s, he has studied phase-change behavior in crystal growth and high-temperature plasma spraying, integrating PCMs into thermal coatings that stabilize surfaces and reduce energy use.
Recent work combines advanced numerical models—enthalpy, effective heat capacity, front-tracking, and mesoscopic methods—with experiments and urban applications such as PCM-enhanced buildings, district storage, and HVAC load shifting. Despite challenges like nonlinear properties and scalability, coupling PCMs with IoT, digital twins, and AI-driven management offers strong potential. Thus, phase-change modeling links fundamental thermophysics with the emerging paradigm of smart, energy-efficient cities.
