New Challenges in Heat Transfer Enhancement
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".
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Dear Colleagues,
Heat transfer pervades every moment of our lives: the heating and cooling of ambientes, foods, metallic, ceramic and polymeric materials are operations that humanity has performed since the beginning of civilization. However, at present, more sophisticated techniques and materials have been developed, so it is fundamental that we study these new subjects and the devices developed to exploit them. The scientific and technological research in this field is developing quickly, and collecting diverse contributions on the subject can help to establish the advancement of the state of the art.
Considering that heat transfer must be either incremented or inhibited, scientific research seeks to develop more and more efficient systems to enhance heat transfer, with new highly conductive materials (e.g., two-dimensional materials such as graphene) or devices as heat pipes. Or, on the other side, disabling heat transfer can help to reduce energy consumption in building heating and cooling, and so reduces the inauspicious effects of human activities, with well-known consequences taking place in front of our very eyes.
This are the reasons why we are presenting this Special Issue, with the goal of supplying all interested people working in this field with a helpful resource which could contribute to deepening our understanding of heat transfer issues.
The following topics are particularly suitable to this Special Issue:
- Heat transfer in special materials:
- Anisotropic materials: single crystals, fiber composites, two-dimensional materials such as graphene.
- Biological materials: animal and human tissues, foods, plants and other systems from the nature.
- Soils and building construction materials.
- New types of insulating materials.
- Devices to increment the heat transfer:
- Heat pipes.
- Engine assisted fluid circulation.
- Devices or systems to insulate:
- New insulating materials, eventually directional.
- Passive solar systems such as Trombe–Michel wall or Barra–Costantini wall.
- Convection reduction or abolition through insertion of screens and interlayers.
Prof. Dr. Paolo Coppa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heat transfer in composites
- heat transfer in soils
- heat transfer during human therapy (hyperthermia, cryotherapy)
- new insulation systems
- progress in the heat pipes construction and application
- analytic and/or numerical modelling of heat transfer in special systems
- heat transfer in magneto fluid dynamic systems
- thermal ablation
- combined heat and mass transfer
- heat transfer with phase change
- exploitation of solar irradiation (thermal and photovoltaic panels)
- relevance of heat transfer in energy systems
- modelling and measuring thermophysical properties
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