Thermo-Fluids and Heat Transfer Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

We warmly invite you to submit your unpublished work for our upcoming special issue focusing on the latest research and developments in the realm of thermofluids and Heat Transfer. This interdisciplinary field has witnessed significant advancements in recent times, shaping various industrial and scientific applications.

Through the integration of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, coupled with advancements in AI and optimization techniques, we have witnessed the emergence of diverse and highly efficient thermofluid systems. Moreover, additive manufacturing has led to a new era, enabling the application of topology optimization to design exceptionally efficient heat exchangers.

In the fields of automotive and aerospace electrification, the demand for innovative cooling solutions and streamlined designs has surged. Concurrently, the escalating global concern over environmental issues and climate change has led to the implementation of stringent policies aimed at limiting energy losses and harnessing low-temperature energy sources. The challenge persists in achieving efficient manufacturing and heat treatment processes while minimizing energy consumption.

In alignment with the special edition theme, we extend an invitation to submit papers addressing the following topics (but not limited to)

• Thermal boundary layer and heat transfer
• Thermodynamics analysis and optimization of energy conversion systems.
• Design considerations for cooling systems and heat transfer in manufacturing, such as, casting, welding and machine tools.
• Energy efficiency and heat transfer in buildings.
• Thermal system analyses in aerospace and automotive applications.
• Heat transfer and cooling mechanisms for electrical components.
• Refrigeration and HVAC.
• Advanced optimization methods for thermofluids system design.
• Phase change for cooling and energy storage.
• Cooling sprays and heat transfer dynamics.
• Thermodynamics and chemical kinetics in combustion systems.
• Spray evaporation and combustion of both fossil and bio-fuels.
• Thermal and vibroacoustics analyses.
• Advancements in measurement techniques for thermofluids.
• Heat treatment and material characteristics.
• Safety and regulations for thermal systems.
• Progress in computational and numerical methodologies.
• Nanoparticles for enhancing heat transfer.
• Data Centre and thermal management

By ensuring a swift publishing decision, combined with a rigorous peer review, your work will have global exposure, thus giving the way for potential collaborations and partnerships.

Dr. Essam F. Abo-Serie
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• heat transfer
• thermodynamics
• cooling system
• thermofluids optimisation
• energy conversion
• exergy
• cooling optimization
• cooling spray
• combustion
• thermal system
• solar energy
• motor cooling
• measurements in thermofluids
• nanoparticles for heat transfer

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Experimental Study on the Performance of an Air Conditioning Unit with a Baffled Indirect Evaporative Cooler

by Seong-Bhin Kim, Kwang-Am Moon, Hwi-Ung Choi and Kwang-Hwan Choi

Energies 2024, 17(13), 3231; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17133231 - 1 Jul 2024

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Indirect evaporative coolers (IECs) use the latent heat of water evaporation to cool air. This system has the advantage of operating at low power without a compressor and does not increase the absolute humidity of the air. However, an IEC is difficult to [...] Read more.

Indirect evaporative coolers (IECs) use the latent heat of water evaporation to cool air. This system has the advantage of operating at low power without a compressor and does not increase the absolute humidity of the air. However, an IEC is difficult to use on its own because its cooling capacity is limited by the theoretical constraint of the wet-bulb temperature of the ambient air. Therefore, an air conditioning unit (ACU) was integrated with an IEC and experimentally evaluated in this study. The dry and wet channels of the IEC were integrated with an ACU evaporator and a condenser, unlike previous studies where IECs were integrated solely with either an evaporator or a condenser. This reduced the cooling load on the evaporator and helped the condenser to dissipate heat to improve the performance of the existing ACU. In addition, the IEC was equipped with baffles to improve its performance. To assess the extent of the performance improvement due to integration with the IEC, comparisons were also performed under the same experimental conditions with an ACU only. The results showed that under conditions with an indoor temperature of 32 °C, integrating the IEC with the ACU increased the average cooling capacity by 13.1% and decreased the average power consumption by 8.60% during the test period, compared to using only the ACU. Consequently, the average coefficient of performance (COP) increased by 19.5% compared to using only the ACU under the same conditions. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermo-Fluids and Heat Transfer Engineering)

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