A range of problems from global challenges in the space industry to the creation of apparatuses and devices for the agro-industrial complex and medicine were discussed at the XVI Minsk International Forum on Heat and Mass Transfer in the Belarusian capital. In a few days, about 200 speakers from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and South Korea will share their discoveries and tell about new projects. Such interaction of scientists and specialists from scientific centers of many countries will allow the participants to hear and see the results already obtained and to define the directions of scientific search in this area for the next years.
The history of the joint Russian-Belarusian space research is more than ten years old. Scientists in the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus have been testing protective materials for spacecrafts and vehicles during re-entry into the upper atmosphere of the planets since Soviet times.
Besides, the institute has special equipment for finishing surfaces of optical parts. This technology allows polishing surfaces to a very high quality. For a number of materials, it is possible to obtain roughness comparable with the size of an atom. This is necessary if, say, one wants to make an optical lens for observations from space. Such technology is used, among other things, for polishing medical instruments.
The method itself is based on the use of a smart magnetic fluid, which is controlled by the action of a magnetic field.
The demand for joint work of the Belarusian and Russian colleagues is really growing. The reason is sanctions and unreasonable policy of the West. It's time to think about our own projects.
Oleg Penyazkov, Director of A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus:
“We are going to participate in quite serious scientific and technical projects related to creation of principally new equipment. There is great demand in it due to the fact that the general strategic situation, the configuration in the world is changing now. It is necessary to start developing and making our own technologies that would be competitive.”
The forum will last for several days. During this time scientists will present papers and discuss thermal and transport processes in systems with nano- and microstructures, plasma systems and technologies as well as thermoregulation of optical and electronic systems.
The forum is timed to the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer
The Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer is currently the major research institution in the country, where energy efficient and environmentally friendly technologies, equipment for energetics, machine building, construction industry, and medicine are being developed.
XVI Minsk International Forum on Heat and Mass Transfer starts in Minsk
16 мая 2022












