Advances in Heat Transfer

John Abraham is at University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, USA John Gorman is at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Wolodymyr J. Minkowycz is the James P. Hartnett professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has performed seminal research in several branches of heat transfer and has published about 175 papers in archival journals. He is also editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and the founding editor of Numerical Heat Transfer.

• 1. Thermal Analyses of buoyancy-driven convectionTie Wei2. Convective heat transfer in different porous passagesA. Haji-Sheikh, Filippo de Monte and W.J. Minkowycz3. Heat exchange between the human body and the environment: A comprehensive, multi-scale numerical simulationJohn M. Gorman, Matthew Regnier and John P. Abraham4. Pressure drop and heat transfer in the entrance region of microchannelsZhipeng Duan and Hao Ma5. Predicting mesoscale spectral thermal conductivity using advanced deterministic phonon transport techniquesJackson R. Harter, Todd S. Palmer and P. Alex Greaney6. An overview of mathematical models and modulated-heating protocols for thermal ablationA. Andreozzi, M. Iasiello and C. Tucci7. Thermal stimulation of targeted neural circuits via remotely controlled nano-transducers: A therapy for neurodegenerative disordersErfan Kosari and Kambiz Vafai