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Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels,
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Satish G. Kandlikar a
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editorial
Selected Papers from the Fourth
International Conference on
Nanochannels, Microchannels,
and Minichannels
SATISH G. KANDLIKAR
Mechanical Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
The Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (ICNMM) was held at the University
of Limerick in Ireland during June 19–21, 2006, under the sponsorship of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. A total
of 189 papers were presented and over 250 participants attended the conference. The participants came from 25 countries
and presented papers in 22 different areas, including microfluidics, biomedical, heat transfer, single- and two-phase flows,
electronics cooling, boiling and condensation, mixing, heat exchangers, and a number of related areas. The participants
cited the intense interactions among researchers from various discipline as a major benefit of attending this conference.
I am pleased to present this special volume of Heat Transfer
Engineering covering the heat transfer- and fluid flow-related
papers presented at the conference. The papers can be broadly
divided into three sections: single-phase flows, two-phase adiabatic flows and boiling heat transfer, and heat exchangers.
The first five papers are presented in the single-phase category. The papers cover laminar-turbulent transition in liquid as
well as in gas flows. Effect of roughness was also studied in
two papers. PIV technique was explored in one paper, and three
papers dealt with rarefaction effects in gas flows.
The next seven papers cover adiabatic two-phase flows, boiling and condensation. The first three papers in this section cover
pressure drop and void fraction measurements. These are followed by four papers on boiling and one on condensation in
microchannels and minichannels.
Finally, the last five papers are related to practical applications of microchannels and minichannels, focusing on heat exchangers and heat pipes. These papers should be of particular
interest to heat transfer practitioners, as we are now seeing industrial products utilizing microchannels and minichannels in
many heat transfer applications.
Address correspondence to Professor Satish G. Kandlikar, Mechanical Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, James E. Gleason Building, 76 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5603. E-mail: sgkeme@
rit.edu
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the authors for
presenting this work at the conference and in this special issue.
I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Professor Mark
Davies of University of Limerick for hosting ICNMM06.
I would like to thank Professor Juergen Brandner, Head of
Thermal Micro Process Engineering Research at the Institute
for Micro Process Engineering (IMVT) at Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe, Germany, for providing the photographs for the cover
of this special issue.
My special thanks to Dr. Ghajar for his continued support and
interest in publishing this collection of heat transfer- and fluid
flow-related papers presented at the conference.
The next conference in this conference series—the Fifth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and
Minichannels, ICNMM07—will be held at Universidad De Las
Americas, Puebla, Mexico, from June 18–20, 2007.
Satish Kandlikar is the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. His current work
focuses on the heat transfer and fluid flow phenomena in microchannels and minichannels. He has published more than 130 journal and conference papers. He is a fellow member of ASME and has been
the organizer of the three international conferences
on microchannels and minichannels sponsored by
ASME. He is a recipient of the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching award, IBM Faculty award, ASME Best
Paper Award, and Journal of Heat Transfer Best Reviewer Award.
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