The ICCHMT conference series, held periodically since 1999, focuses on heat and mass transfer processes.  Given the importance of heat and mass transfer processes for a wide range of engineering applications, especially in energy/thermal/process engineering, the main objective of ICCHMT is to bring together specialists from all around the world to share their most novel findings and discuss possible future directions.  With today's urgent need for the efficient use of energy resources, coupled with environmental concerns, the importance of the topic becomes even more obvious. Nonetheless, the conference also reaches the recently growing fields pertaining to heat and mass transfer, including nanotechnology, biomedical applications, and environmental as well as biological processes.

The conference addresses specifically the research, development, and application of the computational methods, without, however, excluding experimental and theoretical approaches, especially as a means of validation and inspiration. The highly multifaceted field that can include multi-phase phenomena and chemical reactions is correspondingly demanding for computational methods. The latter can cover a wide range of scales, extending from the macroscopic level to the nano-level, using continuum or discrete mechanics, depending on the considered phenomenon and purpose. As various procedures such as Finite Volume Method (FVM), Finite Element Method (FEM), and Finite Difference Method (FDM)  can be utilized to discretize the field equations of a continuum, particle-based methods utilizing different philosophies such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) or Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)  or can also be employed, which can model continuum as inspired by discrete mechanics or molecular dynamics, and, thus, build a bridge to meso-scales, whereas truly Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations can be performed at non-continuum scales.

The conference series provides a platform for scientists and engineers to meet regularly in a relaxed environment to discuss new ideas and developments on computational methods and their applications, as well as a good opportunity for young scientists and engineers to explore the art of computational methods and future perspectives while further broadening their horizons.