Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer within Novel Cooling Structures

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Guest Editors

Fei He, Associate Professor, Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Fei He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China. She received her PhD degree (Dr. -Ing.) from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2014 and conducted research work as a post-doctor at the University of South Carolina from 2014 to 2016. Her main research interests include the two-phase flow and heat transfer in porous media, transpiration cooling technology for extremely high heat flux applications, and modeling of the fluid flow and chemical reaction in solid oxide fuel cell. She has published more than 60 papers in the SCI journals such as International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, Aerospace Science and Technology, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Solid State Ionics, and so on.

Jianhua Wang, Professor, Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Jianhua Wang has been a professor at the Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China since 2003. She received her PhD degree (Dr. -Ing.) from the University of Stuttgart in 2002, and meanwhile also serves as a full-time research partner at the Institute of Thermal Fluid Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics in the German Aerospace Center from 1992 to 1993. She was an assistant researcher at the City University of Hong Kong from 1996 to 1997. She was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).  She has published more than 200 papers in SCI journals such as Energy, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, Transport in Porous Media, Numerical Heat Transfer, Heat Mass Transfer for the fields of heat transfer enhancement, film cooling, electronic cooling, compressed-air energy storage, flow visualization technique.

Summary

The urgent demand for efficient heat dissipation methods in the fields of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, aerospace vehicles, electronic equipment, solar energy collectors and nuclear reactors, encourages blooming studies on active cooling. Designing novel structures and preparing new coolants are effective ways to enhance cooling efficiency, which plays an essential role in the prospective developments of these engineering fields. The characteristics of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer within the novel cooling structure have scientific and technological significance and thereby are the current research focuses of active cooling. This Special Issue is dedicated to the novel results in theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies of novel active cooling structures with single-phase and multi-phase flows. The current advancements in the research methods for exploring the thermal and flow physics relevant to active cooling structures are also of interest.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Single- and two-phase flows within porous structure and microchannel;

• Active cooling using new fluid medium;

• Cooling enhancements of gas turbine;

• Performance improvements of the heat pipe;

• Thermal management in fuel cell;

• Heat transfer enhancement in circulating pipe flow;

• Heat exchanger;

• Electronic cooling;

• Novel methods in experiments, modeling and simulation of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer within novel cooling structures.

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