Novel Nanomaterials for Energy Process Intensification

Dear Colleagues,

A new generation of materials with desirable properties that might find a place in a wide range of applications are able to be synthesized with the advent of nanotechnology, which continues to be a revolutionary avenue for technological advances, especially for meeting energy efficiency and sustainability. For many of these applications, improved nanomaterials are necessary through either mono or multi-mixed form. Such novel materials can have varied properties based on their sizes, shapes, and mixed proportions. Because of their abilities to aggrandize thermal properties, these materials will be more potent than bulk materials. The advancements in innovative synthesis approaches, characterization, and techniques for these nanomaterials tailored to specific demands across a wide range of engineering fields pose a challenge. Clustering and particle agglomeration are crucial problems that need addressing through suitable techniques to provide a performance boost throughout the development of these powders. Furthermore, the lower thermal conductivity of the single mass layer at the heat transfer interface, which affects efficiency, is a problem that traditional solid/solid or solid/liquid phase change systems need curtailing. Nanopowder-based structures may be able to solve this problem, making them useful in various industries such as atomic energy, aviation, sustainable systems, and energy, among several others.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, novel nanomaterials for effectiveness in fluid flow and heat/mass transfer in porous media, magneto hydrodynamic fluid flow and heat transfer, fluid flow and heat transfer in heat exchangers, micro- and nanofluid flow through heat transfer systems, convective flow through different flow sections, the optimisation of design parameters for electronic cooling, fluid flow and heat/mass transfer in heat pipes, the design and optimization of thermal systems and utilities, jet impingement studies on cooling different surface profiles, interfacial phenomena and heat transfer.

Prof. Dr. Mohsen Sharifpur
Prof. Dr. J. P. Meyer
Guest Editors

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• nanopowders
• hybrid nanomaterials
• nanofluids
• nanocoolants
• heat transfer
• convection fluid flow
• porous media
• MHD flow
• electronic cooling
• heat pipes
• thermal systems
• energy