Dominika Kaczmarek, MSc, and Robert Mulka, MSc, were among 23 doctoral students who received the Rector's award for outstanding scientific achievement related to their dissertations. They are pursuing their dissertations in the Division of Refrigeration and Heat Pumps, both are supervised by Bartosz Zajączkowski, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. The awards are granted annually on the basis of the evaluation of the submitted applications, which is carried out by a committee appointed by the Vice-rector for research and innovation.

Ms. Dominika Kaczmarek, MSc, in her dissertation studies heat transfer in pool boiling of water at low pressure on a tube bundle. This research is funded by the National Science Center's OPUS 22 grant (2021/43/B/ST8/00882). She received the award for her research on the effect of hydrostatic pressure on boiling under vacuum conditions. The doctoral student also completed a three-month internship at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) in Paris, where she explored low-pressure boiling in a plate heat exchanger. The results obtained on the experimental setup located in the Laboratory of Multiphase Process Intensification of the Department of Thermal Sciences were presented at the 16th Young in Energy Conference (the work received an honorable mention) and at the European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting in Dublin.

Mr. Robert Mulka, MSc, in his doctoral thesis, explores the use of ferronanoparticles in the process of convective heat transfer. He focuses his research on the use of magnetic fields to control heat transfer in laminar flow of ferronanofluids. He received the award for the characterization of heat and mass transfer phenomena taking into account the relative direction of the speed vector and gravity in magnetic field-controlled laminar flow of ferronanofluids. The research was carried out in the Laboratory of Multiphase Process Intensification of the Department of Thermal Sciences under the NCN Preludium 20 grant (2021/41/N/ST8/02120), of which he was the principal investigator.

The complete list of contest winners is available under the link.

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