Heat pipes are currently attracting increasing interest in thermal management of Electric
vehicle (EV) and Hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) battery packs due to its superconductive …

Porous media play important roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.
Recently, with their increasing application in energy conversion and storage devices, such …

The traditional cement production wastes a large amount of natural resources and energy,
and causes environmental pollution, which cannot meet the green and sustainable …

As a phase change material, erythritol has two main disadvantages: low thermal conductivity
and high supercooling degree. In this study, we proposed a novel erythritol/graphene …

Aluminum alloys have been extensively used as heatproof and heat-dissipation components
in automotive and communication industries, and the demand for aluminum alloys with …

This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

Nowadays, coatings have been widely deposited on cutting tool inserts due to their superior
wear resistant and thermal barrier effect in metal manufacturing industry. Tool coatings avoid …

Heat transfer in the asphalt pavement is significant because it affects asphalt pavement
performance and the surrounding environment. This importance is attributed to summertime …

Theoretical prediction of effective properties for multiphase material systems is very
important not only to analysis and optimization of material performance, but also to new …

A mesoscopic numerical tool has been developed in this study for predictions of the effective
thermal conductivities for microscale random porous media. To solve the energy transport …