Diffusion Foundations and Materials Applications

Description: This special edition collected research articles on two specialised topics - heat and mass transfer in engineering systems and 3D printing applications in biomedical practice. The presented book will be helpful not only to engineers and researchers but also to students and academic staff.

Description: This edition presents research results and analysis of the practical use of 3D technologies in various industrial branches - from mechatronics and biomedical applications to education. The next topics are analysis of the coumarin absorption spectrum with various solvents and morphological and optical study of black silicone textured by chemical etching. The presented research results will be interesting and helpful for additive and chemical technologies specialists.

Description: This volume presents research and practical use of 3D technologies in various industrial branches - from water treatment to biomedical applications. Special polymer material and a thermoplastic composite reinforced with natural fibers are analysed for usability in 3D printing. Some examples of the practical application of X-ray tomography for testing structure and quality additive manufactured elements are included in this volume also. The presented research results will be helpful for specialists from many areas of modern production.

Description: The purpose of this volume, entitled “Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Separation and Transport Processes”, is to provide recent research trends, results of developments, and engineering solutions in the field of mass separation and mass transport processes, energy transmission and dissipation, namely the advanced numerical simulation of heat transport and fluid flow in porous materials.

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The purpose of this Diffusion Foundations volume is to collect a cross-section of contemporary information about real and computational experiments for mass transport in solid and liquid phases. The authors were selected to provide a rigorous description of their chosen research areas. The main aim of the volume is, therefore, to be useful as a type of guide to both contemporary computational and experimental techniques. Another aim of the volume is to demonstrate that computational experiments can be useful for the design and interpretation of real experiments. We draw special attention to the opening chapter from Prof. Helmut Mehrer and Prof. Graeme Murch which provides a comprehensive overview of the history of solid state diffusion.

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This volume presents papers on mathematical modelling of magnetohydrodynamic flow and heat transfer in an electro-conductive polymer, as well as numerical analysis of heat transfer through nanofluid flow in different media, including porous media. Additionally, the study of multi-phase flow in a pipeline has been presented, which can be positively addressed in such key branch as the oil and gas industry. Besides, the volume is devoted to numerical analysis to assess the cooling hole's performance embedded in different trenched designs (triangular trench, semi-cylindrical trench, and corrugated trench) for improving the film cooling efficiency over a flat plate. The presented results might find their application in various areas of engineering.

Description: This volume of Diffusion Foundations is entitled Advances in Mass and Thermal Transport in Engineering Materials. The volume was designed to capture a very wide cross-section of research in the area in both experimental and modelling of mass and thermal transport and at both basic and applied levels. It is now very well recognized that the mass and thermal transport processes in engineering materials underpin much of the advance in the development of new materials and the improvement of existing materials. Whether it be the ongoing enhancement of the engineering properties of materials, the materials processing, the in-service longevity of materials or the recycling of materials, mass and thermal transport very frequently play direct and essential roles.

Description: Engineering systems and materials do experience heating or cooling of some kind during operation. Modelling and theoretical analysis of heat transfer problems will enhance the functional success of the materials and enable new product development in engineering. The special issue on “Engineering Fluid Flows and Heat Transfer Analysis” of the journal “Diffusion Foundations” presents some novel theoretical analysis of various engineering heat transfer problems. Topics covered in this special issue include reactive fluid flow, magnetohydrodynamics, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid flow, natural convection, forced convection, mixed convection, porous media flow, and thermal radiation absorption effects.

Description: This volume is a collection of papers describing recent trends in the development, and application of the heat and mass transfer processes in the field of food preservation, namely the technologies of osmotic dehydration, vacuum drying, freeze drying, cooling, superheated steam drying, heat pump drying and spray drying.