OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer is 65. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Flow-induced oscillation of membrane tapes and its effect on heat transfer of a transitional pipe flow	228
Water vapor condensation on binary mixed substrates: A molecular dynamics study	207
Stability analysis of magneto-LTNE porous convection in Kelvin–Voigt fluid	186
Aerodynamic control of evaporative self-assembly in colloidal droplets	155
Eliminating flow reversals and enhancing heat transport in turbulent thermal convection with sinusoidally heated plates	140
Ring droplet formation during evaporation of a sessile water droplet on a biphilic surface	139
Transient thermal management characteristics of a porous fin with radially outwards fluid flow	129
Wicking characteristics of porous media using short copper micro/nanofibers	127
Two-group phase distribution characteristics for air-water flow in 5 × 5 vertical rod bundle channel with mixing vane spacer grids	124
A modeling study of spatial and temporal frost growth on the edge of windward fins for a tube-finned heat exchanger	124
Dissociation of methane from a layer of methane-hydrate particles: A new simple model	121
Enhanced flow boiling heat transfer in narrow gap with different widths using different-mode-interacting boiling	121
Research on solar-driven interfacial evaporation regeneration performance of different solutions for liquid desiccant cooling system	119
Self-draining microchannel surface structure for droplet condensation with controlled droplet radius distribution	118
Analytical temperature profiles for laser-irradiated gold nanorod immersed in an optically non-absorbing medium	116
Improved startup performance of a dual compensation chamber loop heat pipe by sequential cooling to the compensation chambers	112
Extraction of thermal conductivity using phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation based simulation of frequency domain thermo-reflectance experiments	110
Preferential water vapor condensation on a corrugated surface: A molecular dynamics study	107
High spatiotemporal resolution measurement of water flow boiling heat transfer in a horizontal square minichannel using infrared thermography	104
Thermoelastic damping in moderately thick microplate resonators based on the fractional heat conduction model	103
Experimental study on anti-frost property and edge effect of superhydrophobic surface with millimeter-scale geometries	103
Particle swarm optimization for realizing bilayer thermal sensors with bulk isotropic materials	102
Local flow dynamics in the motion of slug bubbles in a flowing mini square channel	102
Volumetric laser heating of nanosuspension microdroplets: Slow evaporation to mid-air explosion	101
Effective thermal conductivity of microemulsions consisting of water micelles in n‐decane	99

Quantitative visualization on boundary heat transfer of supercritical CO2 mini-channel through-flow (Re=104) via pixelated phase-shifting interferometry	99
Effect of the number of ribbed walls on the thermal performance in rectangular channels with 45-deg parallel or criss-cross ribs	97
Eigenmode analysis of dynamical many-body near-field radiative heat transfer mediated by an external magnetic field	94
Ab initio study of pressure-dependent phonon heat conduction in cubic boron nitride	92
Sizing of recuperator for sCO2 Brayton cycle using stack-based thermal resistance framework coupled with unit-cell CFD model	90
Enhancing heat transfer performance of nitrogen condensation on vertical plate with microstructure	90
Evaporation induced self-assembly of rough colloids: A multiscale simulation study	90
Conditionally Exact Closed-Form Solution for Moving Boundary Problems in Heat and Mass Transfer in the Presence of Advection	87
Numerical investigation on transient and steady phase change heat transfer in the evaporator of a loop heat pipe	87
Merging theory-based cavitation model adaptable with non-condensable gas effects in prediction of compressible three-phase cavitating flow	85
Asymmetrical carbon nanotubes exhibit opposing thermal rectification behaviors under different heat baths	85
Analytical modeling of conjugate heat transfer between a bed of phase change material and laminar convective flow	85
Generalizing multi-branching radial symmetric flow structures	84
Heat transfer through a three-layer wall considering the contribution of phase change: A novel approach to the modelling of the process	84
Thermal convection modulated by actively oscillating filament: The effect of filament rigidity	84
A Large-Eddy Simulation study on the effect of fuel configuration and pan distance towards chemical species for under-ventilated compartment fire scenario	83
Experimental validation of positive relationship between the heat fluxes at departure from nucleate boiling and large bubble formation	82
Experimental Study on Forced Convection Heat Transfer of Helium Gas through a Minichannel	82
Low-energy activation of large convective heat transfer via flow resonance triggered by impinging jet	80
Thermal conductivity in spherical and circular inclusion composites with highly- and lowly-conducting imperfect interfaces	78
3D topology optimization and additive manufacturability of two-fluid heat exchangers	77
New dimensionless equation for mass transfer at evaporation of open liquid surface in mixed or forced convection	76
Experimental and numerical investigations of the thermal–hydraulic characteristics of novel micropin-fin heat sinks	75
Optimization assisted divide–combine approach to model cooling of a PV module equipped with TEG by using a trapezoidal shaped hybrid nano-enhanced cooling channel and performance estimation with gener	75
Analytical analysis of non-boiling heat transfer during droplet impact on heated wall and the effect of thermophysical properties	74
Molecular insights into surface wettability for heterogeneous ice nucleation of seawater on solid surfaces	74
Puffing/micro-explosion of two closely spaced composite droplets in tandem: Experimental results and modelling	73
A method to reduce the fluid mass transfer loss of rotating jet: A kind of microstructure design and research for wave rotor refrigerator	73
Measurements of the liquid film thickness for annular flow during flow condensation in a circular tube	72
Mixed convective heat transfer of medium-Prandtl-number fluids in horizontal circular tubes	71
Numerical investigation on thermal hydraulic performance of hybrid wavy channels in a supercritical CO2 precooler	69
Hopf bifurcation from uni-cellular to multi-cellular flows induced by viscous heating in Poiseuille flow of binary mixtures	69
Modeling of thermal enhancement and scaling analysis for omnidirectional magnetic field generator to actively detumble space debris	68
Experimental and numerical investigation on heat transfer mechanism and multifunctional thermodynamic properties of supercritical carbon dioxide/amino-functionalized graphene nanofluids	68
A numerical study of a suspended compound droplet solidifying under forced convection	67
Synergic inverse design of adsorbent bed topology and heterogeneous adsorbent porosity distribution for adsorption desalination via data-free deep learning	67
Improvement of pure ammonia combustion performance using the catalytic pre-cracking method	67
Multi-band tunable strongly nonreciprocal thermal radiation in topological edge state coupled mode	67
Editorial Board	66
Functionally graded structures for heat transfer enhancement	66
Impact of external turbulence on film cooling designs using large eddy simulations	65
Numerical and correlation analysis of conjugate heat transfer over the discrete braided composites plate	65