A.A.Khalatov, A.V.Kuzmin

Institute of technical thermophysics, NAS, Kiev, Ukraine

N.N.Kovalnogov

Ulyanovsk state technical University, Russia

Since 20 to 26 of September in Alushta (IR of Crimea, Ukraine) the second scientific school-conference "Actual problems of thermophysics and physical hydro- gasdynamics" took place. It aimed to restore the lost links between the scientists and research organizations from countries of CIS and also to involve young people in discussion and investigation of actual aspects of thermophysics and physical hydro- gasdynamics.

Previous (1^st) conference was held at the same place in 29.09.2003-05.10.2003 and was restarted after a 12-year break. During the conference a decision was taken to hold it annually and to raise its status to the international level. The conference was organized by National Academy of Science of Ukraine and Institute of technical thermophysics of Ukraine NAS, by research-and-production adopting company "Triacon", by Ministry of science and education of Russia. Informational support was performed by journal "Industrial Thermophysics", by Russian-American journal "Actual problems of aviation and aerospace systems: processes, models, experiment".

43 representatives from Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine took part in the conference. Among the participants there were 1 corresponding member of National Academy of science of Ukraine, 10 Doctors and 21 Candidates of Science. They represented Institute of Thermophysics and Institute of theoretical and applied mechanics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (SB of RAS), Keldysh Institute of applied mathematics (Moscow), Lomonosov Moscow University, Joffe physicotechnical Institute of RAS, Institute of applied mechanics of RAS, Institute of physics and power engineering - SSC of Russian Federation (Russia), Ivchenko Design Bureau "Progress" (Ukraine), Antonov Aviation Design Bureau (Ukraine), NASU Institute of technical thermophysics and NASU Institute of Gas, Kazan state technical University (Russia), Lithuanian power engineering University and a number of leading scientific research organizations and Universities from CIS countries.

The main trends of the conference program were:

ћ uniphase flows;

ћ heat transfer and hydrodynamics in multiphase flows;

ћ radiation-convective heat transfer and heat conduction;

ћ heat transfer and hydrodynamics in mass forces fields;

ћ fuel combustion and gasification;

ћ heat and mass transfer in technological processes, building constructions and environmental protection;

ћ numerical methods and their applications in thermophysics and hydraulic gas dynamics.

According to the 1^st conference's recommendation the trend of magnetoplasma aerodynamics as a part of uniphase flows trend was included in the 2^nd conference's program. Such an extension of the range of considered aspects resulted in effective interaction of representatives from adjacent scientific fields and made all the participants of conference very interested in it.

Plenary report, invited lections and reports in sections were held at the conference.

Several discussions were held at the conference where a high level of submitted papers and reports was registered. Some recommendations were given concerning further perfection of holding the conference and an acute need to involve young scientists. Annotations of the papers were published in "Actual problems of thermophysics and physical hydro- gasdynamics" series (Publ. of Ukraine NAS, Rel.2, Part 1). The full versions of the conference's papers were published on a CD in the same series (Rel.2, Part 2). Some papers are recommended for publishing in journals: "Actual problems of aviation and aerospace systems: processes, models, experiment" (Russia-USA) and "Industrial Thermophysics" (Ukraine).

The third School-Conference "Actual problems of thermophysics and physical hydro- gasdynamics" was organized at 19-25 of September 2005 (Alushta). A detailed information and all the materials are given at:љљљ www.triacon.orgљљљљљљљљљљ tech@triacon.org alushta@triacon.org