Coupled Flow and Heat or Mass Transport

Dear Colleagues,

After the success of the first Special Issue on “Flow and Heat or Mass Transfer for the Chemical Process Industry”, we solicit contributions in the area of coupled flow and transport processes with applications to other industries and the environment. Flows for energy production, manufacturing, materials processing, water treatment, and in the food industry and human body are most often coupled with heat or mass transfer. Rigorous investigation of this coupling of momentum, heat, and mass transport is not only important for improving our overall theoretical understanding of transport phenomena, but is critical for the design of new materials, effective drug delivery, remediation of fracking sites, and for the design of novel, efficient processes. While generalizations and empiricisms, epitomized in the use of overall transfer coefficients and effective properties, have served practical needs in prior decades, such empiricisms can now be revised or altogether replaced by bringing modern experimental and computational tools to bear in understanding the interplay between flow and transport. The patterns of flow play a critical role in enhancing the transport of heat and mass. Typical examples are the coherent flow structures in turbulent boundary layers, and the flow patterns that are a function of the configuration of a porous medium and are responsible for transport in a packed bed reactor or a separator unit. The goal of this Special Issue is to be a forum for recent developments in theory and state-of-the-art experiments and computations on the interactions between flow and transport in single and multi-phase flow, and from small scales to large scales, which can be of significance for industrial and environmental transport processes.

Prof. Dr. Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou
Prof. Dr. Sepideh Razavi
Dr. Quoc T. Nguyen
Guest Editors

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