THE ENCIT 2004 - 10th BRAZILIAN CONGRESS OF THERMAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES
The Brazilian Congress
of Thermal Engineering and Sciences – ENCIT – is an international
conference held every even year since 1986. Organized under the auspices
of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering –
ABCM the conference has became a sound success, making itself a must for
everyone’s agenda in the field of thermal sciences and fluid mechanics
in Brazil. Since its earliest editions, ENCIT has enjoyed a remarkable
growth, having achieved in 2002 the number of 353 contributed papers and
500 participants.
The present edition of ENCIT has accepted for presentation a total of
342 contributed papers and 18 invited lectures and tutorials.
ENCIT has proved in the past to be an ideal venue for the promotion of
new developments, concepts and ideas in all fundamental and applied aspects
of Heat and Mass Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics and this,
certainly, is the expectation this time around.
A major objective of ENCIT is to bring together professionals from industries,
universities, research centers and governmental agencies to exchange their
ideas and experience in a qualified forum. The Organizing Committee is
sincerely grateful to the Symposia Coordinators and their technical reviewers
for working hard towards achieving a high academic level in the selected
articles, essential to the success of the meeting. The financial support
provided by the promoters and sponsors is also deeply acknowledged.