Collection 

Thermal Engineering for Sustainability

Submission status
Closed
Submission deadline
Efficient management and exploitation of thermal energy is key for many engineering applications.  Greater understanding and control of thermal processes, such as thermal energy harvesting, storage and transfer will play an important role in achieving the UN SDGs.  We announce a call for papers in the journal Communications Engineering, with a view to the publication of a collection of papers on the topic of thermal engineering with a particular focus on applications related to sustainability.  The collection will explore:
 
Design and optimization
• Passive heat transfer enhancement and optimization e.g. evaporation and condensation
• Computational techniques
• Innovative materials e.g. thermal metamaterials, phase change materials 
 
Technologies and applications
• Thermal energy management for temperature control of buildings, infrastructure etc, for example heat exchangers, heat pumps and other heat transfer equipment, radiative cooling
• Thermal energy harvesting and storage from low carbon sources including waste heat, solar
• Exploitation of low carbon thermal energy for example solar thermal power generation, solar desalination
Apartment building thermal imaging

Editors

  • Tian Li  &

    Tian Li

    Purdue University, USA

  • Zhibin Yu

    Zhibin Yu

    University of Glasgow, UK

The Collection will publish original research papers, Reviews, Perspectives and Comments (full details on content types can be found here). Papers will be published in Communications Engineering as soon as they are accepted and then collected together and promoted on the Collection homepage. All Guest Edited Collections are associated with a call for papers and are managed by one or more of our Editorial Board Members and/or the journal's Editors.

This Collection weclomes submissions from all authors – and not by invitation only – on the condition that the manuscripts fall within the scope of the Collection and of Communications Engineering more generally. See our editorial process page for more details.

All submissions are subject to the same peer review process and editorial standards as regular Communications Engineering articles, including the journal’s policy on competing interests. The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions, which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests. See our Collections guidelines for more details. 

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