OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer is 68. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Self-draining microchannel surface structure for droplet condensation with controlled droplet radius distribution	200
Aerodynamic control of evaporative self-assembly in colloidal droplets	185
Experimental validation of positive relationship between the heat fluxes at departure from nucleate boiling and large bubble formation	183
Impact of an intermediate layer on immiscible viscous fingering instability in radial Hele-Shaw cell	175
Performance improvement technique of natural draft dry cooling tower under ambient wind based on minimum mechanical energy dissipation	174
Submerged jet's profile-specific heat transfer: Stagnation zone and beyond	159
Synergic inverse design of adsorbent bed topology and heterogeneous adsorbent porosity distribution for adsorption desalination via data-free deep learning	151
Adsorption and energy storage characteristics of ionic liquids in porous zeolite-templated carbon materials	150
Thermal conductivity in spherical and circular inclusion composites with highly- and lowly-conducting imperfect interfaces	146
A Large-Eddy Simulation study on the effect of fuel configuration and pan distance towards chemical species for under-ventilated compartment fire scenario	142
Preferential water vapor condensation on a corrugated surface: A molecular dynamics study	137
Comparison of lifetime performance of PEMFC stacks with two cooling strategies under different humidity	131
Experimental and numerical investigation on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of the variable cross-section internally finned tube	130
High spatiotemporal resolution measurement of water flow boiling heat transfer in a horizontal square minichannel using infrared thermography	130
Modeling of thermal enhancement and scaling analysis for omnidirectional magnetic field generator to actively detumble space debris	115
Thermal convection modulated by actively oscillating filament: The effect of filament rigidity	110
Experimental measurements and mathematical modeling of cold plate for aviation thermal management	109
Transient surface temperatures upon the impact of a single droplet onto a heated surface in the film evaporation regime	106
Multi-band tunable strongly nonreciprocal thermal radiation in topological edge state coupled mode	106
Impact of external turbulence on film cooling designs using large eddy simulations	105
Effect of inlet and outlet positions on heat dissipation performance of lithium-ion battery cold plates: An analysis based on topology optimization	104
Molecular dynamics study on the role of hydrogen bonds and interfacial heat transfer between diverse silica surfaces and organic liquids	103
Research on solar-driven interfacial evaporation regeneration performance of different solutions for liquid desiccant cooling system	101
3D topology optimization and additive manufacturability of two-fluid heat exchangers	101
A method to reduce the fluid mass transfer loss of rotating jet: A kind of microstructure design and research for wave rotor refrigerator	101

Improvement of pure ammonia combustion performance using the catalytic pre-cracking method	100
Neutron imaging based vapor fraction measurements in an inductively heated boiling packed bed	100
Investigation on the thermal and hydrodynamic performance of a microchannel heat sink partially filled with porous medium	96
Droplet trampolining on heated surfaces in the transitional boiling regime	95
Improved startup performance of a dual compensation chamber loop heat pipe by sequential cooling to the compensation chambers	92
New dimensionless equation for mass transfer at evaporation of open liquid surface in mixed or forced convection	91
Assessing effective medium theories for conduction through lamellar composites	90
Quantitative visualization on boundary heat transfer of supercritical CO2 mini-channel through-flow (Re=104) via pixelated phase-shifting interferometry	90
Doping nanoparticles to enhance the thermal properties of eutectic salts in high temperature latent heat storage systems: A comprehensive review	89
Ring droplet formation during evaporation of a sessile water droplet on a biphilic surface	88
Investigation of nanoparticles shape that influence the thermal conductivity and viscosity in argon-based nanofluids: A molecular dynamics simulation	86
Numerical investigation on forced, natural, and mixed convective heat transfer of n-decane in laminar flow at supercritical pressures	86
Numerical investigation of melting process for phase change material (PCM) embedded in metal foam structures with Kelvin cells at pore scale level	85
Flow channel structure optimization and analysis of proton exchange membrane fuel cell based on the finite data mapping and multi-field synergy principle	83
Numerical investigation on the thermal behavior of cylindrical lithium-ion batteries based on the electrochemical-thermal coupling model	82
Fluid dynamics of mixing in the tanks of small vanadium redox flow batteries: Insights from order-of-magnitude estimates and transient two-dimensional simulations	82
Experimental and numerical studies of the pulsating heat pipe stopover regime	80
Analysis of UV radiation of solid rocket plume containing multiphase alumina clusters	79
Thermoelastic component of photoacoustic response calculated by the fractional dual-phase-lag heat conduction theory	78
Comparative study of the main electromagnetic models applied to melt pool prediction with gas metal arc: Effect on flow, ripples from drop impact, and geometry	78
Numerical investigation on transient and steady phase change heat transfer in the evaporator of a loop heat pipe	78
Flow state transition and bi-stability of spanwise flow structures in quasi-two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection	78
Influence of ambient temperature and structural parameters on thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube arrays after secondary segmentation	77
A new analytical model for the conduction shape factor of annulus sectors	76
A multiscale thermodynamic generalization of Maxwell-Stefan diffusion equations and of the dusty gas model	76
Generalizing multi-branching radial symmetric flow structures	75
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]	75
Classification of boiling regimes, fluids, and heating surfaces through deep learning algorithms and image analysis	74
Measurements of natural convective heat transfer of the inclined torus	74
Ab initio study of pressure-dependent phonon heat conduction in cubic boron nitride	74
Modeling of ATP transport in an axon: Effects of spontaneous neuron firing and mitochondrial transfer via tunneling nanotubes	73
Mode- and space-resolved thermal transport of alloy nanostructures	73
Analytical temperature profiles for laser-irradiated gold nanorod immersed in an optically non-absorbing medium	73
Dissociation of methane from a layer of methane-hydrate particles: A new simple model	72
Nonreciprocal radiative heat transfer between Weyl semimetal nanoparticles mediated by graphene nanoribbons	72
Wall heating effects on aeroacoustic fields radiated by rigid bodies at different flow regimes	70
Editorial Board	70
Extraction of thermal conductivity using phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation based simulation of frequency domain thermo-reflectance experiments	69
Effects of flow loop compressible volume position on system instabilities during flow boiling in micro-channel heat sinks	69
Evaporation induced self-assembly of rough colloids: A multiscale simulation study	69
Asymmetrical carbon nanotubes exhibit opposing thermal rectification behaviors under different heat baths	68
Characterization of turbulent pseudo-boiling in transcritical and doubly-transcritical oxygen–methane flames	68
Merging theory-based cavitation model adaptable with non-condensable gas effects in prediction of compressible three-phase cavitating flow	68
Effective thermal conductivity of microemulsions consisting of water micelles in n‐decane	68