Advanced Transport Phenomena and Performance Enhancement in Sustainable Energy Systems
This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In many sustainable energy systems, overall performance is fundamentally governed by the transport of momentum, heat, mass, and chemical species across multiple spatial and temporal scales. A deeper understanding and effective regulation of these transport phenomena are therefore essential for reducing energy losses, improving conversion efficiency, extending operational lifetimes, and minimizing the environmental impacts associated with energy production and use.
This Special Issue, entitled ‘Advanced Transport Phenomena and Performance Enhancement in Sustainable Energy Systems’, aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for recent advances in the analysis, characterization, modeling, control, and optimization of transport processes relevant to sustainable energy technologies. Contributions may address the identification of dominant transport mechanisms, the development of advanced enhancement and control strategies, and the optimization of components, devices, and integrated systems. Experimental investigations, theoretical analyses, numerical simulations, data-driven methods, and multi-scale or multi-physics approaches are all welcome. Original research articles, reviews, perspectives, and methodological studies are encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fundamental and applied studies of momentum, heat, mass, charge, and species transport;
- Single-phase and multiphase transport processes;
- Phase-change heat and mass transfer, including boiling, condensation, evaporation, melting, and solidification;
- Electrochemical transport phenomena, water management, and performance optimization in sustainable energy devices;
- Transport enhancement and performance optimization of energy conversion and storage systems;
- Thermal management and heat dissipation in high-performance energy devices;
- Performance degradation, durability, reliability, and operational optimization of sustainable energy systems;
- Numerical modeling, multi-physics simulation, and reduced-order modeling;
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, and data-driven optimization;
- Transport-related strategies for reducing energy consumption and environmental impacts.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Liaofei Yin
Dr. Qi Peng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced transport phenomena
- sustainable energy systems
- heat and mass transfer
- multiphase flow
- phase-change transport
- transport enhancement
- performance degradation
- thermal management
- multi-physics modeling
- life-cycle sustainability
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Published Papers
Sustainability - ISSN 2071-1050