01About This Special Issue
With long-term history of development, the science "Convection heat and mass transfer" has become an important scientific field so far, and plays huge role in engineering and People's life. However, with the rapid development of modern industry the current achievements of traditional theory of convection heat and mass transfer are still not adapted to the practical requirements. For a simple example, a lot of calculation correlations on convection heat and mass transfer application are still empirical or semi-empirical from experiment. Therefore, a big challenge is to develop innovative research for enhancement of the practical application value of convection heat and mass transfer. The original achievements on theoretical and experimental research are encouraged in our special issue, which may include theoretical methods, mathematical models, numerical approaches and calculation, treatment of variable physical properties, novel experiment method and results, and progress of convection heat and mass transfer application.Scientific topics we seek include but are not limited to the following technical fields:
a) Hydrodynamics and convection heat transfer of Newtonian fluids
b) Hydrodynamics and convection heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluids
c) Hydrodynamics and convection heat transfer with porous median
d） Hydrodynamics and heat transfer with mixed convection
e) Solidification heat transfer
f) Heat and mass transfer in MHD convection
g) Heat transfer with nanofluids convection
h) Convection heat and mass transfer in minichannels
i) Hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer of film boiling convection
j) Hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer of core boiling convection
k) Hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer of film condensation convection of pure vapour
l) Hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer of film condensation convection of vapour-gas mixture
m) Experimental on convection hydrodynamics and heat transfer
n) Models of variable physical properties of fluids
o) Effect of fluid temperature-dependent physical properties on convection heat transfer
p) Effect of variable physical properties on heat and mass transfer of film boiling convection
q) Effect of variable physical properties on heat and mass transfer of film condensation convection
r) Effect of non-condensable gas on heat and mass transfer of film condensation convection of vapour-gas mixture
s) Mathematical models and numerical approaches on convection heat and mass transfer
t) Convection heat and mass transfer application
u) Research and development of renewable Energyv) Marginal stability of boundary layer
02Meet the Guest Editors
Our distinguished editors bring deep subject-matter expertise to curate high-quality research and ensure a rigorous peer-review process.
Lead Guest Editor
De-Yi Shang
Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, Ottawa, Canada
Guest Editor
Mohammad Reza Safaei
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Guest Editor
Liang-Cai Zhong
Department of Ferrous Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Guest Editor
Mohamed Bechir Ben Hamida
High School of Sciences and Technology - Hammam Sousse -Tunisia, sousse, Tunisia
Guest Editor
Meysam Amini
Energy Research Division, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Tehran, Iran
03Published Articles
The following articles have been published in this special issue.
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Extensive Study on Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer of Laminar Mixed Convection
Issue: Volume 3, Issue 3-1, May 2015Pages: 8-17Received: 18 December 2014Accepted: 23 December 2014Published: 19 January 2015Abstract: Through extensive study on hydrodynamics and heat transfer, calculation correlations of heat transfer for laminar free/forced mixed convection on a vertical flat plate is obtained. It contains the following three research investigations: (i) local-similarity analysis and transformation based on our developed new similarity analysis method replacing... Show More -
An Innovative Similarity Transformation for In-Depth Research of Convection Heat and Mass Transfer
Issue: Volume 3, Issue 3-1, May 2015Pages: 1-7Received: 17 December 2014Accepted: 25 December 2014Published: 19 January 2015Abstract: Our innovative similarity transformation for in-depth research of convection heat and mass transfer is presented. For solving convection heat and mass transfer issues, the boundary layer analysis method is used, and meanwhile, the Falkner-Skan transformation is currently popular to treat the core similarity variables for velocity field similarity. ... Show More
