Abstract:
This editorial provides an overview of a special issue dedicated to the 8th International Conference on Heat Transfer,
Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics—HEFAT2011—hosted in Mauritius. All papers for this conference were peer reviewed
and almost 150 papers were accepted. Of these, nine were selected for this issue and peer-reviewed for a second
time according to journal standards. The nine articles focus on recent developments regarding heat transfer in industry
and include condensation, frost formation, and frost melt-water retention on microgrooved brass surfaces under natural
convection; large eddy simulation technique for the modeling of premixed and non-premixed combustion; nanoparticle related
heat transfer phenomena and their application in biomedical fields; heat rejection in condensers close to the critical
point; industrial heat utilization through water management; influence of the geometry of open-cell aluminum foam on the
thermohydraulic behavior in channel flow; effect of mesh grids on the turbulent mixing layer of an axisymmetric jet; use of
the LIVE program at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to investigate core melt phenomena; and fluid flow characteristics
and associated forced convection in curved ducts. The current issue of Heat Transfer Engineering is the eighth special
journal issue dedicated to selected papers from the HEFAT conferences.
