Frosting and Icing
A special issue of Thermo (ISSN 2673-7264).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 1148
Special Issue Editors
Interests: frosting; icing; heat pump; thermal comfort; advanced cooling; flow boiling
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Interests: icing/frosting; boiling/evaporation/condensation; the coupling processes of heat/mass and flow
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Interests: frosting; icing; heat pump; heat exchanger
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Interests: CFD; heat and mass transfer; hydrodynamics; gas–solid systems; renewable energy
Interests: analysis, modeling, identification, and control of time-delay systems; algebraic control methods; heat-exchanger processes; autotuning and optimization techniques
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a natural phenomenon, the phenomenon of frost and ice is widely existing and often plays a negative role in many fields, such as energy and power, aerospace, transportation, polar navigation, food refrigeration, biomedicine, etc. In order to solve this typical interdisciplinary problem, research on frost formation mechanism and application technology has attracted a large number of scholars internationally. The journal Thermo intends to organize and publish a "Frosting and Icing" column, aiming to promote the dissemination and academic exchange of frost- and icing-related technologies in order to promote academic development and progress in this field through increased participation; this helps policymakers, engineers, and practitioners in understanding and applying the latest technology and research results. Finally, technical support will be provided for the safe operation of various frost-related engineering scenarios.
This column will share the latest research and application progress in the fields of frost and ice, clarify the technical status of frost and ice research, look forward to future development directions, and explore practical issues of frost and ice technologies with respect to policies, applications, and practices. We sincerely invite global experts, scholars, and professional and technical personnel to contribute actively.
The scope of solicitation includes but is not limited to the following:
(1) Frosting and defrosting of air source heat pump and LNG vaporizing evaporator;
(2) Icing and anti-icing problems in transportation equipment and power equipment engineering;
(3) Frosting and icing issues in aerospace and aviation systems, biomedicine, and cryogenic food storage;
(4) Dynamic characteristics such as droplet impact and water film spreading, solidification characteristics of droplets and water films, and other microscopic studies;
(5) All kinds of hydrophobic anti-frost anti-ice surface interfaces and materials;
(6) Scientific research in the field of polar sea ice, such as sea ice field observation technology and key thermal/dynamic processes of sea ice, etc.;
(7) Frost-forming and icing-related prediction, detection, ice removal, ice breaking, ice storage, ice making, and other technologies.
Prof. Dr. Mengjie Song
Dr. Xuan Zhang
Dr. Long Zhang
Prof. Dr. Seyyed Hossein Hosseini
Dr. Libor Pekař
Dr. Keke Shao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- frosting
- icing
- anti-icing
- de-icing
- detection
- prediction
- droplet
- solidification
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