Submission Deadline: 31 January 2027 View: 121 Submit to Special Issue
Assoc. Prof. Libor Pekař
Email: pekar@utb.cz
Affiliation: Department of Automation and Control Engineering, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic
Research Interests: time-delay systems, linear control, process modelling, identification, and simulation, heating-cooling systems
Assist. Prof. Long Zhang
Email: long.zhang@bit.edu.cn
Affiliation: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Research Interests: the coupled mechanisms of heat and mass transfer and fluid flow, specifically phase change problems such as frosting, icing, and solidification, alongside key technologies in heat pump and refrigeration systems
Assoc. Prof. Xuan Zhang
Email: xuan.zhang@bit.edu.cn
Affiliation: Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Research Interests: icing/frosting/freezing, anti-/de-icing and anti-/de-frosting, liquid-solid and gas-solid phase change, condensation/evaporation/boiling, enhanced heat/mass transfer and fluid flow, gas-liquid phase change, droplet/bubble/particle dynamics, wettability and surface/interface science, micro-/nano-scale heat and mass transfer, efficient cooling and new refrigeration, phase change materials, additive manufacturing
The principles of thermodynamics of fluid flow and phase changes are widely used in various industrial systems and applications, including materials processing, distillation, chemical processing, energy production, and thermal energy storage. The study of heat and mass transfer associated with phase change phenomena is therefore very important from technological, economic, and ecological perspectives. Understanding, characterizing, and improving these processes is essential to developing more sustainable systems that meet the growing global demand for energy. The processes in question are among the most complex physical processes due to dynamic interactions of interfaces, non-equilibrium effects, or interface movements. In many cases, simplified assumptions are used, which can, however, lead to failures in the design or control of these processes. For instance, frost and ice formation—a typical phase-change heat transfer process—illustrates this point in applications such as air-source heat pumps and refrigerators, where simplified frost growth models fail to provide accurate guidance for the structural design of evaporators.
Therefore, there is an obvious need to develop innovative and advanced computer-aided techniques, methods, and procedures for their modeling, identification, and simulation, which will serve not only to understand these processes better, but also to design their control.
This special issue aims to attract the latest research results and solutions for computer-aided modeling and simulation of fluid-flow and phase-change processes, including frost and ice accretion dynamics. Both theory focused and application driven studies are welcome, especially papers with good technical depth or with emerging applications in engineering and sciences.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Optimization of welding, casting, soldering, and injection molding processes
- AI tools and techniques for modeling and simulation of fluid-flow and phase-change processes
- Metaheuristics and swarm intelligence
- Deep and reinforcement learning for phase-change and latent-heat thermal processes
- Modeling, simulation, and control of heat-exchanger operations, processes, and their nets
- Optimizing drying processes in the food industry
- Challenges in soft sensor development for phase-change processes
- Detecting phase-change phenomena in biological systems
- Delayed and after-effect phenomena
- Modeling and simulation of frost/ice accretion dynamics
- Multi-physics simulation of droplet solidification and morphological evolution
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