Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Industrial Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Thermal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 14329

Special Issue Editors
Interests: heat transfer; flow boiling; condensation; thermal engineering; low-GWP refrigerants; PCMs
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Interests: thermodynamics; refrigeration; two-phase flow; heat transfer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Two-phase heat transfer inside tubes is involved in many different applications, among which evaporators and condensers for HVAC and refrigeration equipment. The industry is now facing with the growing number of HVAC and refrigeration systems worldwide, and, at the same time, must deal with the reduction of greenhouse gases, with the aim of controlling the global warming. New equipment involving lower Global Warming Potential refrigerants and highly efficient systems are in great demand nowadays. The transition from HFC refrigerants to lower GWP refrigerants is ongoing: natural fluids, such as HydroCarbons (HCs) or carbon dioxide, HydroFluoroOlefins (HFOs), and new refrigerants mixtures have been proposed as new alternative refrigerants with lower values of GWPs.
New experimental data are needed to better understand the behavior of these new refrigerants during two-phase heat transfer. These experimental data can also be used to develop and verify reliable models for the estimation of thermal and hydraulic performances of tubes during two-phase heat transfer of these new lower GWP refrigerants. In this context, this Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims at collecting contributions related to (but not limited to) two-phase heat transfer, i.e. evaporation and/or condensation, of new lower GWP pure refrigerants or refrigerants mixtures inside/outside smooth and/or enhanced tubes. Experimental, numerical and/or modelling contributions are welcome in this Special Issue in order to give a deeper insight about the topic.
Dr. Andrea Diani
Dr. Luca Viscito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flow boiling
- evaporation
- boiling
- condensation
- smooth tube
- enhanced tube
- dryout
- heat transfer coefficient
- pressure drop
- empirical correlation
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