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Mamoru Ozawa is a professor emeritus and a senior researcher of Research Centerfor Societal Safety Sciences, Kansai University, Japan. He received his doctoraldegree from Osaka University in 1977. His research interests include boiling heattransfer, two-phase flow dynamics, combustion system, boiler, and safety in industrialsystems. He has authored and coauthored more than 150 refereed journals,more than 150 conference papers, several handbooks, and many books related tothermal hydraulics in steam power. Among his edited books the most recently publishedScience of Societal Safety has been chapter-downloaded more than 60,000times. He served the Board of Directors and the President of Heat Transfer Societyof Japan and the Chairman of the Power and Energy Systems Division of the JapanSociety of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). He was awarded several times from theVisualization Society of Japan, the Heat Transfer Society of Japan, and the JSME.

Hitoshi Asano is a professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KobeUniversity, Japan. He received his doctoral degree from the Kobe Universityin 2000. His research interests include boiling and condensation heat transfer,two-phase flow dynamics in energy conversion systems, compact heat exchangersfor HVAC systems, and two-phase flow cooling systems for electric and powerequipment. He has authored and coauthored more than 100 refereed journals andmore than 130 conference papers. He is a member of the Scientific Council ofInternational Center for Heat and Mass Transfer and is a fellow of the JSME.He received the Asian Academic Award from the Japan Society of Refrigerationand Air-Conditioning Engineers, the Society of Air-Conditioning and RefrigeratingEngineers of Korea, and the Chinese Association of Refrigeration in 2018.