Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques in Microscale Flows
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 4784
Special Issue Editor
Interests: heat transfer; phase change processes; multiphase flows; spray dynamics; bubbles and drops; microfluidics; optical diagnostics; particle image velocimetry; spectroscopic techniques; fluorescence-based techniques; data inversion algorithms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The design of efficient cooling–heating devices is a crucial task in several applications, such as microelectronics, biotechnologies, automotive, and aerospace engineering. For example, the rapid growth of electronic technologies, together with the rapid decrease in component size, has led to a strong need for thermal packaging and management.
Unfortunately, the use of strong power density is today coupled to a lack of efficient heat dissipation methods, leading to a truly technological bottleneck. Therefore, the understanding of the transport phenomena involved in micro heat transfer and their enhancement is definitely needed to allow further miniaturization of technological steps.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect contributions focused on recent techniques for heat transfer enhancement in microscale flows. In addition to original research papers, historical review papers are also particularly welcome.
Authors are invited to submit theoretical, numerical, and experimental works focused on:
- The impact of roughness, riblets and fins in microchannel heat sinks (MCHS) and microchannel heat exchangers (MCHEs);
- The use of highly conductive fluids such as nanofluids;
- The enhancement of pool and flow boiling heat transfer via surface texturing or using exotic fluids;
- Surface texturing and manufacturing strategies;
- Development of embedded sensors for flow monitoring at microscale (temperature, pressure, void fraction, etc.).
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosaria Vetrano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microchannel heat sink
- Microchannel heat exchanger
- Roughness, riblets, fins
- Surface texturing
- Pool and flow boiling
- Nanofluids
- Manufacturing strategies
- Novel sensors
