Thermofluid Dynamics

Michele Ciofalo is professor (ret.) of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Palermo, Italy. His most recent research interests have included both fluid dynamics and heat or mass transfer in membrane processes and the modelling and numerical simulation of turbulence by DNS, LES and RANS methods. With Springer he also published the book “Thermofluid Dynamics of Turbulent Flows – Fundamentals and Modelling” (2021).

• Solid bodies approaching each other in a viscous fluid.- Velocity and displacement of spherical particles subjected only to drag.- Flow through parallel channels separated by a permeable wall.- Laminar oscillatory flow in a plane channel.- Nusselt number in channel flow with general thermal boundary conditions.- Buoyant flow in a duct or a loop.- Stability of two-phase flow in a heated duct.- Heat transfer in spray cooling as an inverse problem.- Apparent Sherwood number in mass transfer with wall transpiration.- One-dimensional mixed MHD convection.