http://scitation.aip.org/ J. Heat Transfer: All Topics http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000058 Taeheon Han, Kyung-Soo Yang, and Kyongjun Lee<br/> Heat transfer on two nearby isothermal circular cylinders of equal diameter immersed in a uniform crossflow at Re=120 and Pr=0.7 was numerically studied. We consider all possible arrangements of the two cylinders in terms of the distance between the two cylinders and the inclination angle with respe ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 034504 (2009)] published Tue Dec 29, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000056 A.-R. A. Khaled<br/> Heat transfer through rectangular permeable fins is modeled and analyzed theoretically in this work. The free stream fluid flow is considered to be normal to the upper surface of the permeable fin. The flow across the permeable fin is permitted in this work. The continuity, momentum, and energy equa ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 034503 (2009)] published Tue Dec 29, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000050 Jianhua Zhou, Yuwen Zhang, J. K. Chen, and Z. C. Feng<br/> The inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP) in a one-dimensional composite slab with rate-dependent pyrolysis chemical reaction and outgassing flow effects is investigated using the iterative regularization approach. The thermal properties of the composites are considered to be temperature-dependent. ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 034502 (2009)] published Mon Dec 28, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000048 H. S. Kang<br/> A pin fin with variable fin base thickness is optimized using a two-dimensional analytic method. The values of the inner wall temperature and fin volume are given as constants. The fin base temperature varies with variation in the fin base thickness, fin outer radius, fin length, and convection char ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 034501 (2009)] published Wed Dec 23, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.3213527 R. L. Marvel, III and F. C. Lai<br/> A numerical study has been performed to further investigate the flow and temperature fields in layered porous cavity. The geometry considered is a two-dimensional square cavity comprising of three or four vertical sublayers with nonuniform thickness and distinct permeability. The cavity is subjected ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 032602 (2009)] published Wed Dec 30, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000049 Zuo Lei, Sukang Zhu, and Ning Pan<br/> Fibrous material is a complex porous medium and steady test methods are the main test approaches we currently depend on to study the heat transfer properties. The application of unsteady test methods on fibrous material is still not mature. In this paper, some systematic studies are taken to investi ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 032601 (2009)] published Wed Dec 23, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000055 R. Krishna Sabareesh, S. Prasanna, and S. P. Venkateshan<br/> The interaction of surface radiation and conduction with natural convection heat transfer from a vertical flat plate assembly, with an embedded heater, has been investigated, both experimentally (using differential interferometer) and numerically (using FLUENT), in the present work. In the absence o ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 032501 (2009)] published Tue Dec 29, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000052 J. Alvarez-Quintana, Ll. Peralba-Garcia, J. L. Labar, and J. Rodriguez-Viejo<br/> The cross-plane thermal conductivity of several nanoscale layered oxides SiO/YO, SiO/CrO, and SiO/AlO, synthesized by e-beam evaporation was measured in the range from 30 K to 300 K by the 3omega method. Thermal conductivity attains values around 0.5 W/m K at room temperature in multilayer samples, ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 032402 (2009)] published Mon Dec 28, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000047 Tengfei Luo and John R. Lloyd<br/> In this paper, equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations were performed on Au-SAM (self-assembly monolayer)-Au junctions. The SAM consisted of alkanedithiol (S(CH)S) molecules. The out-of-plane (z-direction) thermal conductance and in-plane (x- and y-direction) thermal conductivities were calculate ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 032401 (2009)] published Tue Dec 22, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000053 Gongnan Xie, Bengt Sunden, Esa Utriainen, and Lieke Wang<br/> Cooling methods are strongly needed for the turbine blade tips to ensure a long durability and safe operation. Improving the internal convective cooling is therefore required to increase the blade tip life. A common way to cool the tip is to use serpentine passages with 180-deg turns under the blade ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031901 (2009)] published Wed Dec 30, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000046 Boris Schilder, Simon Yu Ching Man, Nobuhide Kasagi, Steffen Hardt, and Peter Stephan<br/> The pressure drop and the convective heat transfer characteristics of ethanol and water in a circular tube with a diameter of 600 [mu]m with and without phase change have been studied experimentally. The test section consists of a glass tube coated with a transparent indium tin oxide heater film. F ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031702 (2010)] published Mon Jan 4, 2010. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.3222735 R. Sambasivam and F. Durst<br/> Gas jet flows expanding into a space containing the same medium but at a significant temperature difference are of concern in many fields of engineering. One such example is the expansion of supersonic oxygen jets in the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking process. While studying the characterist ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031701 (2009)] published Tue Dec 22, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000045 T. W. Ng, A. Narain, and M. T. Kivisalu<br/> To overcome the limitations/disadvantages of many known liquid film thickness sensing devices (viz. conductivity probes, reflectance based fiber-optics probes, capacitance probes, etc.), a new liquid film thickness sensor that utilizes fluorescence phenomena and fiber-optic technology has been devel ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031603 (2009)] published Wed Dec 30, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000051 David O. Hubble and Tom E. Diller<br/> The development and evaluation of a novel hybrid method for obtaining heat flux measurements is presented. By combining the spatial and temporal temperature measurements of a heat flux sensor, the time response, accuracy, and versatility of the sensor is improved. Sensors utilizing the hybrid method ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031602 (2009)] published Mon Dec 28, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.3211866 A. Gifford, A. Hoffie, T. Diller, and S. Huxtable<br/> Experiments were performed to characterize the performance of SchmidtBoelter heat flux gauges in stagnation and shear convective air flows. The gauges were of a standard design (25.4 mm and 38 mm in diameter), using a copper heat sink with water cooling channels around the active sensing element. A ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031601 (2009)] published Tue Dec 22, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000012 Claudi Martin-Callizo, Bjorn Palm, Wahib Owhaib, and Rashid Ali<br/> The present work reports on flow boiling visualization of refrigerant R-134a in a vertical circular channel with an internal diameter of 1.33 mm and 235 mm in heated length. A quartz tube with a homogeneous Indium Tin Oxide coating is used to allow heating and simultaneous visualization. Flow patter ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031503 ] published . http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000057 Frederic Lefevre, Romuald Rulliere, Stephane Lips, and Jocelyn Bonjour<br/> This paper aims to show how confocal microscopy can be useful for characterizing menisci in a flat plate heat pipe made of silicon. The capillary structure is made of radial microgrooves whose width decreases from the periphery to the center of the system. A transparent plate is used to close the sy ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031502 (2010)] published Mon Jan 4, 2010. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000054 Mark Aaron Chan, Christopher R. Yap, and Kim Choon Ng<br/> This research paper presents a study of boiling heat transfer from longitudinal rectangular-finned surfaces immersed in saturated water at low vapor pressures. Finned surfaces with assorted fin spacing, fin thicknesses, and fin heights on a copper based surface have been investigated. All the finned ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031501 (2009)] published Tue Dec 29, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000059 Syed M. Zubair, A. F. M. Arif, and Mostafa H. Sharqawy<br/> Analytical solutions for temperature distribution, heat transfer rate, and fin efficiency and fin effectiveness are derived and presented for orthotropic two-dimensional pin fins subject to convective-tip boundary condition. The generalized results are presented and discussed in terms of dimensionle ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031301 (2009)] published Wed Dec 30, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4000060 Shadi Mahjoob and Kambiz Vafai<br/> A comprehensive analysis of bioheat transport through a double layer and multilayer biological media is presented in this work. Analytical solutions have been developed for blood and tissue phase temperatures and overall heat exchange correlations, incorporating thermal conduction in tissue and vasc ... [J. Heat Transfer 132, 031101 (2009)] published Wed Dec 30, 2009.