This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advancements and emerging methodologies in the field of heat transfer analysis through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). With the growing demand for high-performance thermal systems across various engineering domains, novel CFD-based approaches are playing a pivotal role in designing, optimising, and understanding complex thermal processes.
We welcome original research and review articles that demonstrate innovative CFD strategies to tackle multi-scale and multi-physics heat transfer challenges. This Special Issue particularly focuses on new developments in thermal analysis, including microfluidics for high-performance thermal management and microchip cooling, the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for heat transfer modelling, and the development of high-efficiency numerical schemes and advanced reduced-order models for industrial-scale simulations.
Contributions addressing thermal phenomena under non-equilibrium conditions, such as in rarefied gas flows, vacuum environments, or high-frequency transient heat transport, are also encouraged. In addition, we seek studies that explore novel heat transfer analysis methods in advanced manufacturing technologies, such as additive manufacturing and laser-based processing, where thermal dynamics are critical to performance and quality.
This Special Issue offers a platform to share cutting-edge research that bridges fundamental heat transfer theory with practical CFD implementation, enabling new solutions across aerospace, electronics cooling, energy systems, biomedical engineering, and materials processing.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Microfluidics and microscale heat transfer;
Microchip and electronics cooling systems;
AI/ML-assisted heat transfer modelling;
High-performance numerical methods and solvers;
Reduced-order modelling of thermal-fluid systems;
Heat transfer under rarefied and vacuum conditions;
Transient and non-equilibrium thermal transport;
Thermal analysis in additive manufacturing and laser processing;
Conjugate heat transfer and phase-change modelling;
Multiphase and reactive flow simulations involving heat transfer.
| Period | 2025 |
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| Type of journal | Journal |
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| ISSN | 2076-3417 |
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| Degree of Recognition | International |
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- computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- heat transfer
- microfluidics
- microchip cooling
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- numerical methods
- reduced-order models
- rarefied gas flow
- vacuum systems
- non-equilibrium heat transfer
- additive manufacturing
- conjugate heat transfer
- multiphase heat transfer
- phase transformation
