Best Paper Award - Hyungdae Kim, Haeram Jeong, Jin Ha Hwang, "Review on the Linkage between Flow Instability and Structural Integrity of Helical-coil Steam Generators in Innovative SMR", Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping (KPVP), Busan, South Korea, November 20-22, 2025
Best Poster Award - Banseok Bae, Youngjae Park, Yunju Lee, Ji Hyun Kim, Hyundae Kim, "An Experimental Visualization study of the Reflood Heat Transfer on Single heater Rod with CRUD Layer", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting,Gyeongju, South Korea, October 26-27, 2023
Best Paper Award - Banseok Bae, Youngjae Park, Yunju Lee, Ji Hyun Kim, Hyungdae Kim, "An Experimental Study on Effects of CRUD on Reflood Heat Transfer Characteristics", The 10th Korea-China Workshop on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics (WORTH-10), Jeju, South Korea, November 25-29, 2023
Best Paper Award - Donggyun Seo, Hyungdae Kim, "Modification of the Mechanistic CRUD Heat Transfer Model for Transition Boiling", The 10th Korea-China Workshop on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics (WORTH-10), Jeju, South Korea, November 25-29, 2023
Third Place Award - Banseok Bae, Youngjae Park, Yunju Lee, Ji Hyun Kim, Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement during Reflooding on CRUD-deposited Surface", The 10th Korea-China Workshop on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics (WORTH-10), Jeju, South Korea, November 25-29, 2023
Best Poster Award - Iljin Kim, Hyungdae Kim, "Numerical Modeling of Flow Boiling in a Rectangular channel using OpenFOAM", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Spring Meeting, Jeju, korea, May 16-19, 2023
Best Poster Award - Jonghwi Choi, Hyungdae Kim, "Limits in Measuring Microlayer Profile under a Boiling Bubble using Interferometry", 11th International Conference on Boiling & Condensation Heat Transfer(ICBCHT11), Edinburgh, UK, May 15-17, 2023.
Best Poster Award - D. Seo, Y. Park, B. Kim, H. Kim, "Effect of CRUD layer on the heat transfer in the reflood situation using the SPACE", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Spring Meeting, May. 2022.
Best Presentation Award - Iljin Kim and Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental study of conjugate heat transfer associated with single bubble boiling", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Virtual Spring Meeting, July. 2020.
Best Presentation Award - Iljin Kim, Dahui Kwack, Eojin Jeon, Gyunyoung Heo, Hyundae Kim and Hoon Jung, "CFD analysis of steam extraction from condenser for C-OTEC", Korean Society for Fluid Machinery, Nov. 2019.
Best Poster Award - Sangmin Park, Changhwan Lim, Jonghwi Choi, Hyungdae Kim and Taewan Kim, "Analysis of heat transfer performance of a fork-end heat pipe using MARS-KS", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Oct. 2018.
Best Paper Award - Satbyoul and Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental observation of triggering mechanism of boiling crisis in pool boiling of water", 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH17), Sep. 2017.
Best Presentation Award - Changhwan Lim and Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental study on performance of multi-pod heat pipe for application to passive cooling of spent fuel pool", Korean Society for Fluid Machinery, Jul. 2017.
Best Paper Award - Muritala Amidu and Hyungdae Kim, "CFD Analysis of the Inclintion Effects on Pool Heat Exchanger", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Oct. 2016.
Curie prize - Satbyoul, the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Oct. 2016.
Encouragement prize - 박영재,이호명,김형대,임도균, 김응수,이어확,김석권,이동원, "핵융합로 수냉각 디버터의 냉각능 향상을 위한 유로형상 최적화 연구", 2016 핵융합기초연구개발세미나, Aug. 2016.
Global Ph.D. Fellowship - Satbyoul, 2016 한국연구재단 글로벌 박사 펠로우십사업, Mar. 2016 ~ Feb. 2017.
Best Paper Award - Junseok Park and Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental investigation on heat transfer of a single droplet during collision with a heated wall above leidenfrost temperature", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Oct. 2015.
Best Paper Award - Satbyoul and Hyungdae Kim, "Visualization study on high heat flux boiling and critical heat flux", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Oct. 2015.
Best poster - Andree Pusey, Hyun-Sik Park, Tae-Soon Kwon and Hyungdae Kim, "Visualization of cross-sectional two-phase flow structure druing condensation of steam in a horizontal tube", The 7th China-Korea Workshop on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics(WORTH-7), Oct. 2015.
First place - Satbyoul Jung, Seunghyuck Chung and Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental investigation of heat transfer mechanisms associated with the extended microlayer of a boiling bubble", 9th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, Apr. 2015.
Second place - Youngjae Park, Namseok Song and Hyungdae Kim, "Experimental investigation of boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux enhancement on micor-structured surfaces using infrared thermograpy", 9th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, Apr. 2015.
Best Paper Award - Satbyoul and Hyungdae Kim, "Simultaneous investigation of dynamics and heat transfer associated with a single bubble nucleate boiling", Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Oct. 2013.