OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer is 66. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Flow-induced oscillation of membrane tapes and its effect on heat transfer of a transitional pipe flow	237
Stability analysis of magneto-LTNE porous convection in Kelvin–Voigt fluid	211
Aerodynamic control of evaporative self-assembly in colloidal droplets	167
Eliminating flow reversals and enhancing heat transport in turbulent thermal convection with sinusoidally heated plates	148
Ring droplet formation during evaporation of a sessile water droplet on a biphilic surface	147
Transient thermal management characteristics of a porous fin with radially outwards fluid flow	133
A modeling study of spatial and temporal frost growth on the edge of windward fins for a tube-finned heat exchanger	132
Enhanced flow boiling heat transfer in narrow gap with different widths using different-mode-interacting boiling	131
Dissociation of methane from a layer of methane-hydrate particles: A new simple model	129
Self-draining microchannel surface structure for droplet condensation with controlled droplet radius distribution	129
Analytical temperature profiles for laser-irradiated gold nanorod immersed in an optically non-absorbing medium	125
Improved startup performance of a dual compensation chamber loop heat pipe by sequential cooling to the compensation chambers	124
High spatiotemporal resolution measurement of water flow boiling heat transfer in a horizontal square minichannel using infrared thermography	124
Thermoelastic damping in moderately thick microplate resonators based on the fractional heat conduction model	121
Experimental study on anti-frost property and edge effect of superhydrophobic surface with millimeter-scale geometries	118
Particle swarm optimization for realizing bilayer thermal sensors with bulk isotropic materials	112
Local flow dynamics in the motion of slug bubbles in a flowing mini square channel	111
Volumetric laser heating of nanosuspension microdroplets: Slow evaporation to mid-air explosion	107
Effective thermal conductivity of microemulsions consisting of water micelles in n‐decane	106
Eigenmode analysis of dynamical many-body near-field radiative heat transfer mediated by an external magnetic field	105
Ab initio study of pressure-dependent phonon heat conduction in cubic boron nitride	104
Sizing of recuperator for sCO2 Brayton cycle using stack-based thermal resistance framework coupled with unit-cell CFD model	104
Evaporation induced self-assembly of rough colloids: A multiscale simulation study	102
Numerical investigation on transient and steady phase change heat transfer in the evaporator of a loop heat pipe	100
Conditionally Exact Closed-Form Solution for Moving Boundary Problems in Heat and Mass Transfer in the Presence of Advection	98

Generalizing multi-branching radial symmetric flow structures	96
A Large-Eddy Simulation study on the effect of fuel configuration and pan distance towards chemical species for under-ventilated compartment fire scenario	94
Experimental Study on Forced Convection Heat Transfer of Helium Gas through a Minichannel	93
Experimental validation of positive relationship between the heat fluxes at departure from nucleate boiling and large bubble formation	92
Low-energy activation of large convective heat transfer via flow resonance triggered by impinging jet	91
Thermal conductivity in spherical and circular inclusion composites with highly- and lowly-conducting imperfect interfaces	90
Molecular insights into surface wettability for heterogeneous ice nucleation of seawater on solid surfaces	89
New dimensionless equation for mass transfer at evaporation of open liquid surface in mixed or forced convection	89
Analytical analysis of non-boiling heat transfer during droplet impact on heated wall and the effect of thermophysical properties	89
Experimental and numerical investigations of the thermal–hydraulic characteristics of novel micropin-fin heat sinks	89
Experimental and numerical investigation on heat transfer mechanism and multifunctional thermodynamic properties of supercritical carbon dioxide/amino-functionalized graphene nanofluids	88
Numerical investigation on thermal hydraulic performance of hybrid wavy channels in a supercritical CO2 precooler	88
Modeling of thermal enhancement and scaling analysis for omnidirectional magnetic field generator to actively detumble space debris	87
Synergic inverse design of adsorbent bed topology and heterogeneous adsorbent porosity distribution for adsorption desalination via data-free deep learning	86
Editorial Board	85
Numerical and correlation analysis of conjugate heat transfer over the discrete braided composites plate	83
Corrigendum to “A discussion on the relation between the intermittent flow sub-regimes and the frictional pressure drop” [Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 181 (2021) 121895]	82
Phonon resonant effect in silicon membranes with different crystallographic orientations	80
Thermal performance analysis of liquid cooling system with hierarchically thermal conductive skeleton for large-scaled cylindrical battery module in harsh working conditions	79
Hydrothermal waves in sessile droplets evaporating at a constant contact angle mode	77
A new analytical model for the conduction shape factor of annulus sectors	77
Assessing effective medium theories for conduction through lamellar composites	76
Fast-Response transient heat flux measurements in a plasma wind tunnel	76
Experimental and numerical investigation on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of the variable cross-section internally finned tube	75
Evaporation of refrigerant R134a, R404A and R407C with low mass flux in smooth vertical tube	74
Fluid dynamics of mixing in the tanks of small vanadium redox flow batteries: Insights from order-of-magnitude estimates and transient two-dimensional simulations	74
Equivalent thin-layer temperature field model (ETTM) for bolted rotors to describe interface temperature jump	73
Flow state transition and bi-stability of spanwise flow structures in quasi-two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection	71
Convection driven by a nonuniform radiative internal heat source in a cavity: Example of medical isotope production in liquid targets	71
Investigation of convective heat transfer performance in nanochannels with fractal Cantor structures	71
Neutron imaging based vapor fraction measurements in an inductively heated boiling packed bed	71
Heat transfer and pressure drop correlations for direct on-chip microscale jet impingement cooling with alternating feeding and draining jets	70
Thermal convection modulated by actively oscillating filament: The effect of filament rigidity	69
Thermohydraulic performance analysis of graded porous media microchannel with microencapsulated phase change material suspension	69
Enhancing heat transfer performance of nitrogen condensation on vertical plate with microstructure	69
Investigation on the thermal and hydrodynamic performance of a microchannel heat sink partially filled with porous medium	68
3D topology optimization and additive manufacturability of two-fluid heat exchangers	68
Influence of boundary effect on supersonic flows and non-equilibrium condensation in a Laval nozzle for natural gas dehydration	68
Modeling of ATP transport in an axon: Effects of spontaneous neuron firing and mitochondrial transfer via tunneling nanotubes	67
Frosting characteristics on silver iodide (AgI) micro patterned surface under various temperature conditions	67
Effects of using double elastic inclined fins on cooling of protruding heated electronic equipment mounted in a bifurcating channel under nano-enhanced magneto forced convection: Computational analysi	67
Mechanism study on spreading dynamics of nanofluids droplet coupled with thermal evaporation	66
Classification of boiling regimes, fluids, and heating surfaces through deep learning algorithms and image analysis	66
Enhanced thermal management of cyclically operating T/R module in spatial environment	66