Heat Transfer and Advanced Combustion

Dear Colleagues,

Energy and environmental issues are critical challenges for human survival and development. Advanced theories and technologies of heat transfer and combustion not only enhance energy efficiency and environmental friendliness in various traditional industrial processes, but have also demonstrated increasingly significant roles in emerging fields in recent years, including waste heat utilization, thermal energy storage, electronics cooling, electric vehicle thermal management, and low-emission combustion. Therefore, developing advanced heat transfer and combustion theories and technologies holds great importance for the progress of modern society.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, numerical modeling, experimental investigation, and application of various heat transfer and combustion technologies. Original research articles and reviews on both fundamental problems and technical developments are invited for submission. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theories and technologies for heat transfer enhancement.
• Various cutting-edge technologies for the cooling of electronics with high heat fluxes.
• Thermal management strategies, technologies, and systems for Li-ion batteries or electric vehicles.
• Micro-/meso-scale combustion, including flame dynamics, combustor design, and energy conversion devices.
• Low-/zero-carbon emission combustion technologies, such as catalytic combustion, porous media combustion, MILD combustion, NH₃/H₂ combustion, etc.
• Advanced diagnostic techniques for heat transfer and combustion processes.
• Advanced numerical methods for heat transfer and combustion processes.
• Rich-oxygen combustion in the steel industry.
• Fluid mechanics.
• Low-concentration methane gas combustion technology.
• Thermal energy storage.

Prof. Dr. Aiwu Fan
Dr. Yongfang Xia
Prof. Dr. Xiaoliang Zheng
Guest Editors

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