Thermal Energy Storage and Thermal Management (TESM2017)

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to contribute to our Special Issue of Energies on the theme of Thermal Energy Storage and Thermal Management.

With the worsening energy shortage and environmental pollution, thermal energy storage and thermal management have received much attention in solar thermal utilization, building energy-saving, cooling electronic devices, the battery thermal management of electrical vehicles, and so on. To enhance the efficiency of thermal energy storage and thermal management systems, the thermal properties of materials and the heat and mass transfer mechanisms of systems are key factors.

This Special Issue will cover recent research and trends in thermal energy storage and thermal management, including materials, devices and systems. In particular, this Special Issue will cover the heat transfer and multiphase flow in different devices and systems. The preparation, characterization and thermal properties of different materials are of interest. We welcome both experimental and computational studies, such as molecular dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics, the lattice Boltzmann method, and so on.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

♦ Thermal energy storage techniques, including sensible heat, latent heat and thermochemical heat or a combination of these

♦ Novel phase-change materials for thermal storage and management, including organic, inorganic and eutectic or micro/nanoencapsulated phase-change materials

♦ Cooling electronic devices and battery thermal management systems of electrical vehicles, including air cooling, liquid cooling and phase-change material cooling or heating

♦ Latent heat function of nanofluids and nanocapsules

♦ Microchannel, loop heat pipe and vapor chamber or flat heat pipe

♦ Micro/nano heat transfer and multiphase flow of thermal energy storage and thermal management systems, including both experimental and computational studies

♦ Advanced energy storage management systems

For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, please contact: Dr. Rui Xiong, Editorial Board, Energies (rxiong@bit.edu.cn)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rui Xiong
Prof. Dr. Zhonghao Rao
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Takahiro Nomura
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.