APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING

Processes ∑ Technologies ∑ Systems

Production ∑ Storage ∑ Utilization
Editor-in-Chief: Christos N. Markides
Imperial College London, London, UK

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Pradeep Bansal

Satya International Ltd., USA

Subject Editors
Combustion Applications Materials Applications
Sanghoon (Shawn) Kook Liang An
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Gang Xiao Ali Kosar
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Components and Devices Renewable Energy

Alessandro Romagnoli Jae-Weon Jeong
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Yong Hao
Energy Conversion Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Yaling He Beijing, China
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
Todd Otanicar
Steven Lecompte Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Mingjia Li Transfer Processes
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Matteo Bucci
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Zhibin Yu
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Fei Duan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Energy Storage Josua Meyer
Adriano Sciacovelli University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Gherhardt Ribatski
Xiaolin Wang University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil
University of Tasmania, Australia
Jacek Smolka
Heating, Cooling and Refrigeration Silarian University of Technology, Poland
Jader Barbosa Dongsheng Wen
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil Beihang University, Beijing, China
Pradip Dutta
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Two-phase flowm modelling and simulation and
energy systems
Jun Shen Giovanni Giustini
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Sciences, Beijing, China
Angelo Zarrella
University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Journal Development Editor

Giorgio Besagni
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Managing Editors
Jiang Song
Imperial College London, London, UK
Kai Wang
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Founding Editor-in-Chief
David Reay
David Reay and Associates, Whitley Bay, UK

Editorial Advisory Board

Orhan Aydin Thomas Butcher Zhenqian Chen
Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Southeast University School of Energy and
Turkey New York, USA Environment, Nanjing, China
Kanchan Chowdhury Sylvie Lorente Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, University of Technology Malaysia Process
Kharagpur, India USA Systems Engineering Centre, Johor Bahru,
Umberto Desideri Akio Miyara Malaysia
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Saga University, Saga, Japan Qiuwang Wang
Antonio García Martinez Srinivasa Murthy Srikantiah Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Energy and
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India Power Engineering, Xian, China
Spain Zheng O’Neill Ruzhu Wang
Liejin Guo Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,
Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Energy and USA China
Power Engineering, Xian, China Lin Qiu William Worek
Zhixiong (James) Guo University of Science and Technology Texas A&M University Kingsville Eagle Ford
Rutgers University New Brunswick, Beijing School of Energy and Environmental Center for Research and Outreach, Kingsville,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Engineering, Beijing, China Texas, USA
Hongguang Jin Bidyut Baran Saha Gongnan Xie
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Kyushu University International Institute for Northwestern Polytechnical University School
Satish Kandlikar Carbon-neutral Energy Research, Fukuoka, of Marine Science and Technology, Xi’an,
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, Japan China
New York, USA Shengqiang Shen Yimin Xuan
James Klausner Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Victoria Timchenko Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Michigan, USA University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Qiang Liao New South Wales, Australia
Chongqing University School of Energy and
Power Engineering, Chongqing, China