Phase Change Heat Transfer in Thermal Management Systems

Submission Deadline: 10 July 2026 View: 111 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Assoc. Prof. Xiaoping Yang

Email: yxping@xjtu.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China

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Research Interests: thermal management of high power chips, enhancement of evaporation, pool boiling and flow boiling, heat pipe technology, microchannel heat sinks

Assoc. Prof. Bo Xu

Email: xubo@seu.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210016, China

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Research Interests: microgravity condensation heat transfer, microchannel heat sinks, thermal management of electronic devices, supercritical CO₂ flow/phase-change heat transfer

Summary

With the rapid development of AI technology, electronics, and other fields, the integration of chips and electronic devices continues to increase, leading to high heat flux dissipation challenges at an order of 100-1000 W/cm². This not only severely restricts the performance and reliability of electronic devices but also causes a sharp rise in cooling energy consumption. Boiling, evaporation, and condensation phase-change heat transfer utilize the substantial latent heat of vaporization of liquids to achieve efficient heat transfer, making them highly promising for high heat flux density chip cooling and energy-saving systems. However, in thermal management systems, the phase-change processes of boiling, evaporation, and condensation involve complex multi-scale heat and mass transfer behaviors. A quantitative description and enhancement of these phase-change processes will provide crucial insights for the design and optimization of efficient thermal management systems. Hence, we proposed this special issue to collect high quantity and original research articles or review papers that aim at revealing the mechanisms of such phase-change phenomenon and proposing novelty enhancement methods. In addition, the design, test and control of thermal management systems are also welcomed.

The suggested themes are listed below.
1) Thermal management system;
2) Flow boiling, evaporation, condensation heat transfer and enhancement
3) Thermal management technique such as vapor chamber, heat pipe

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