OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Thermal Sciences is 41. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Thermal improvement of linear Fresnel solar system utilizing Al2O3-water nanofluid and multi-way twisted tape	198
Free convection heat transfer analysis of a suspension of nano–encapsulated phase change materials (NEPCMs) in an inclined porous cavity	153
Thermal performance of open microchannel heat sink with variable pin fin height	103
Experimental study on enhanced heat transfer and flow performance of magnetic nanofluids under alternating magnetic field	91
Thermal assessment of solar concentrated system with utilizing CNT nanoparticles and complicated helical turbulator	81
An experimental study on heat transfer enhancement and flow characteristics of a tube with plain, perforated and dimpled twisted tape inserts	80
Nusselt number analysis from a battery pack cooled by different fluids and multiple back-propagation modelling using feed-forward networks	71
Thermo-hydraulic performance analysis of a solar air heater (SAH) with quarter-circular ribs on the absorber plate: A comparative study	70
Heat transfer and flow characteristics of Fe3O4-water nanofluids under magnetic excitation	70
Experimental study of thermal management system for cylindrical Li-ion battery pack based on nanofluid cooling and copper sheath	66
Identification and classification of the flow pattern of hydrogen-air-steam mixture gas under steam condensation	62
Fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of microchannel heat sinks with different groove shapes	58
Thermal management of a simulated battery with the compound use of phase change material and fins: Experimental and numerical investigations	57
Experimental study of phase change material (PCM) embedded in 3D periodic structures realized via additive manufacturing	57
Analysis of heat transfer and flow characteristics in typical cambered ducts	56
Experimental investigation of performance improvement of double-pipe heat exchangers with novel perforated elliptic turbulators	55
Design optimization of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with novel three-zonal baffle by using CFD and taguchi method	55
Experimental study on heat transfer, friction factor, entropy and exergy efficiency analyses of a corrugated plate heat exchanger using Ni/water nanofluids	51
Numerical and experimental study of the heat transfer process in a double pipe heat exchanger with inner corrugated tubes	50
Design and assessments on a hybrid pin fin-metal foam structure towards enhancing melting heat transfer: An experimental study	49
Multi-objective optimization and performance assessment of microchannel heat sinks with micro pin-fins	49
Investigation on a gas-atomized spray cooling upon flat and micro-structured surfaces	48
Phase change heat transfer in a rectangular enclosure as a function of inclination and fin placement	48
Colored radiative cooling: How to balance color display and radiative cooling performance	47
Experimental and numerical investigation of heat and mass transfer in non-uniform wavy microchannels	47

Recent advances in textile materials for personal radiative thermal management in indoor and outdoor environments	47
Heat transfer enhancement of symmetric and parallel wavy microchannel heat sinks with secondary branch design	47
Effects of geometric parameters of circular pin-fins on fluid flow and heat transfer in an interrupted microchannel heat sink	46
MHD nanofluid free convection inside the wavy triangular cavity considering periodic temperature boundary condition and velocity slip mechanisms	46
The investigation of molten pool dynamic behaviors during the “∞” shaped oscillating laser welding of aluminum alloy	45
Thermo-hydraulic performance of a solar air heater with staggered C-shape finned absorber plate	45
Experimental and numerical investigation on the thermal performance of triple tube heat exchanger equipped with different inserts with WO3/water nanofluid under turbulent condition	45
Experimental and computational determination of heat transfer, entropy generation and pressure drop under turbulent flow in a tube with fly ash-Cu hybrid nanofluid	44
Optimization of nanofluid heat transfer in a microchannel heat sink with multiple synthetic jets based on CFD-DPM and MLA	44
Radiant heating floors with PCM bands for thermal energy storage: A numerical analysis	44
Dual-band nonreciprocal thermal radiation by coupling optical Tamm states in magnetophotonic multilayers	42
Experimental investigation on thermo-physical properties and subcooled flow boiling performance of Al2O3/water nanofluids in a horizontal tube	42
Study on the smoke movement and downstream temperature distribution in a sloping tunnel with one closed portal	41
Experimental investigation on thermal behavior of graphene dispersed erythritol PCM in a shell and helical tube latent energy storage system	41
A unified soil thermal conductivity model based on artificial neural network	41
Performance assessment of flat-plate solar collector with internal fins and porous media through an integrated approach of CFD and experimentation	41
The effects of variable porosity and cell size on the thermal performance of functionally-graded foams	41