Thermal Flows

Dear Colleagues,

Flows of thermal origin and related heat transfer problems are central in a variety of disciplines and industrial applications. The aim of this Special Issue is to create a collection of studies by distinct investigators and research groups dealing with different types of thermal flows relevant to typical natural or technological contexts (e.g., thermogravitational, thermocapillary and thermovibrational convection).

In particular, we seek manuscripts that present the state-of-the-art and/or a review of the existing knowledge, as well as new theoretical, numerical or experimental investigations on the structure of these flows, their stability behavior and the possible bifurcations to different patterns of symmetry and/or spatiotemporal regimes. Studies concerned with different categories of fluids are welcome (including, but not limited to: liquid metals, molten salts and semiconductors, gases, common fluids such as water, oils, organic and inorganic transparent liquids, molten plastics, polymeric fluids and viscoelastic liquids, etc.). Significant room will also devoted to analyses focused on “hybrid” cases where the considered thermal flow is driven by more than one driving force (mixed convection), it occurs in rotating systems or in the presence of other effects such as forced convection, solidification and/or magnetic fields.

This collection of papers will constitute a new important resource for physicists, engineers, and advanced students interested in the physics of non-isothermal fluid systems, fluid mechanics, environmental phenomena, meteorology, geophysics, thermal and (especially) materials engineering.

Prof. Dr. Marcello Lappa
Guest Editor

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