Flow Physics in Energy Conversion Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: turbo machines; applied thermodynamics; thermal management; heat transfer; complex fluid flow; real gas; hydrogen; system modelling; numerical methods; finite volume
Interests: experimental methods; fundamental fluid phenomena; instabilities; turbulence; degassing; cavitation; energy conversion; energy storage
Interests: energetics; energy engineering; fluid mechanics; uncertainty quantification; energy storage and conversion; thermal management; lithium-ion batteries; multi-fidelity modeling; multi-physics modeling; numerical methods; computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global electricity consumption continues to rise as global energy demand increases and new uses of electricity emerge. These two trends support research into innovative energy conversion technologies and efficient energy systems.
Machines that involve fluid flows to exchange energy—such as turbines, compressors, pumps, and electric motors—lie at the heart of these systems. Understanding and controlling flow behaviour are decisive for increasing performance, improving durability, and reducing environmental impact.
The physics of flows in these devices features complex interactions among turbulence, heat transfer, multiphase phenomena, and fluid–structure coupling. Recent advances in experimental techniques, diagnostics, high-fidelity simulations, and data-driven approaches are opening new avenues for exploring, understanding, and optimizing these complex systems.
The investigation of instabilities, transition to turbulence, cavitation, and degassing in well-controlled configurations - enabling the isolation and analysis of fundamental mechanisms - provides deeper insight into the essential physical processes governing these systems and contributes to their overall energy optimization.
This Special Issue aims to gather original research papers and comprehensive reviews dedicated to experimental, numerical, and theoretical analysis of flow physics in energy conversion systems, by emphasizing both the fundamental understanding of flow phenomena and their engineering applications.
We warmly invite researchers and engineers to submit their original contributions and share their latest findings and insights in this exciting and rapidly evolving field.
Prof. Dr. Michael Deligant
Dr. Michaël Pereira
Dr. Elie Solai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flow physics
- energy conversion machines
- experimental fluid mechanics
- turbomachinery
- high-fidelity models
- data-driven optimization
- multiphase flow
- flow diagnostics
- renewable energy systems
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