Heat Transfer and Energy Harvesting in Fluid System

Dear Colleagues,

For this Special Issue of Machines we are seeking studies which present analytic solutions to any kind of hydrodynamic or heat flow equations. The investigation and knowledge of such equations are extremely important for planning and building of water machines, e.g., turbines for heat engines, internal combustion engines or even choosing the proper shape of airplanes of ships. On the other hand, the mathematical structure of equation systems capable of decribing such processes are very complex. Nowadays, multi-physics engineering software can handle compound heat and flow conduction problems numerically up to a given level of accuracy. On the other hand, due to our human existence there is a natural need to understand and grasp the essence of physical processes, ratios, trends, magnitudes or at least the asymptotic runouts of these complicated calculations. The search for new solutions to these equations is an evergreen and fascinating intellectual topic. We hope that the reader will enjoy this intellectual tour through interesting problems and will help us to learn new paradigms which will be successfully applicable in her/his scientific career.

Dr. Imre Ferenc Barna
Dr. Krisztian Hriczo
Guest Editors

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