OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer is 63. 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
Adopting a hot film to measure thickness of an ice layer under sweeping wind	231
Numerical study of vapor condensation and droplet migration on the asymmetrical micropillar arrays	223
The effects of material properties on solute transport during entrapment of a bubble subject to horizontal solidification	192
Editorial Board	133
Numerical evaluation of thermal stability of a W-shaped crushed-rock embankment with shady and sunny slopes in warm permafrost regions	130
Heat transfer and entropy generation in oscillating lid-driven heat sinks with variable fin configurations	123
Experimental study on the concentration fluctuation of dust particles with different sizes during a dust storm	123
Deterioration effects of SiO2 nanoparticles on the mass transfer in a single drop system with resistance in both phases	118
Boiling-induced thermal degradation of copper inverse opals and its mitigation	118
Comparative experimental investigations of evaporation heat transfer characteristics of R245fa and R1233zd(E) in an enhanced channel	117
Corrigendum to "Combined experimental and numerical investigations on heat transfer augmentation in truncated ribbed channels designed by adopting fractal theory", International Communications in Heat	112
Experimental and photographic investigation into horizontal subcooled flow boiling in concentric annuli for cooling system of ultra-fast electric vehicle charging cables	109
Numerical study on three-phase corrugated plate heat exchanger using EEMM-PBM framework	107
Numerical simulations of MHD effect on convective heat transfer characteristics in bubbles coalescence process	105
Chemically reactive Carreau nanoliquid radiative flow induced by exponentially extending surface capturing variable liquid characteristics: A three-dimensional analysis	104
Effect of wall subcooling on condensation in a steam-air mixture on a vertical tube	104
Heat transfer characteristics of pulsatile flow through microchannel with heat-spots: Mimicking heat generation in the blood vessels	101
Numerical study on flow and heat transfer of aviation kerosene at supercritical pressure in cooling channels with surface corrugations	101
The effect of solid nitrogen on nucleate boiling heat transfer in a slush nitrogen pool	99
Enhanced insights into paired droplet evaporation dynamics on heated substrates: Unveiling the role of convection and diffusion	99
Adaptive mesh refinement method for the reduction of computational costs while simulating slug flow	92
Numerical parametric study of turbulent counterflowing jets	91
Effect of third size on natural convection of variable viscosity fluid in a closed parallelepiped	90
Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of the induction spot welding process for steel and aluminum alloy sheet metal	89
Delineating effects of cell arrangements, wall shapes, flow configurations, and phase change material on airflow-based lithium-ion battery thermal management	88

Three-dimensional mesoscopic simulation of radiative transfer in graded index media	87
Numerical and experimental investigation of heat transfer in the spiral coiled tubes: Correlation development for Nusselt number and friction coefficient calculation	86
Ultrasound-assisted enhancement of heat transfer in immersed coil heat exchangers: Effects of acoustic intensity and ambient fluid properties	85
Electrohydrodynamics and thermal radiation effects on natural convection flow in an enclosed domain	83
The conformable fractal systems of natural convection in an annulus suspended by NEPCM	83
Effects of dimple depth and temperature ratio on heat transfer and flow resistance in rotating dimpled channels	82
Multiscale structural optimization of dual-pressure heat recovery steam generators using constructal theory	82
Theortical study of temperature-dependent flow induced by MW model	81
Molecular dynamics of wettability and condensation on nanostructured surfaces: Fundamentals and hybrid wetting	81
Numerical investigation on the effects of non-gaussian random and regular textured rough surface on critical heat flux	81
Thermo-structural behavior of thermal barrier coatings for thrust chamber applications	80
Investigation on the heat transfer characteristics of rotor-stator cavity with different disk roughness	79
Droplet impact behavior on a hydrophobic plate with a wettability-patterned orifice: A lattice Boltzmann study	79
A direct numerical simulation study to elucidate the enhancement of heat transfer for nucleate boiling on surfaces with micro-pillars	79
Development of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and stochastic simulation for mean droplet size modeling in rotatory agitated columns under different mass transfer scenarios	78
On the performance of a latent heat thermal storage unit integrated with a helically coiled copper tube and organic phase change materials: A lab-scale experimental study	77
Effect of the double vacancy on heat transfer performance of solid particle bed in particle waste heat recovery	76
Pore-scale modelling of reactive transport processes in catalyst layers with mesoporous carbon supports	76
Fractional-order modeling of dynamic response for shielded total temperature probes considering unsteady aerothermal processes	75
Thermal performance of ternary-hybrid nanofluids through a convergent-divergent nozzle using distilled water - ethylene glycol mixtures	75
Theoretical study on impact of the dissipative muffler on the cooling performance of the hybrid mechanical draft wet cooling tower	74
The mechanism and onset boundary of flow instability for supercritical CO2 heated in vertical single-tube: Experimental study	73
Study on the similarity criterions for trans-critical flow and heat transfer of methane and nitrogen in PCHE	73
Performance improvement of a PCM cold box by two bilayers configuration	72
Thermal conductivity of stabilized PEG 400 based nanofluids: An experimental approach	71
Dynamics of vapor bubble train in flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels	70
Thermo-hydraulic performance characteristics of novel G-Prime and FRD Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) geometries	70
Droplet impact on a concave wall in a rotating gas flow field	70
Optimization of H-type finned tube heat exchangers with combinations of longitudinal vortex generator, dimples/protrusions and grooves by Taguchi method	69
Optimal shape design and performance investigation of the diffuser for infrared suppression (IRS) device applying MO-SHERPA	69
Effects of porous material ribs on the hydrothermal performance and entropy generation in cylindrical helical microchannels heat sinks	68
Double-diffusive convection flow with Soret and Dufour effects in an irregular geometry in the presence of thermal radiation	68
Heat transfer analysis of compressible laminar flow in a parallel-plates channel via integral transforms	68
The design of intelligent networks for entropy generation in Ree-Eyring dissipative fluid flow system along quartic autocatalysis chemical reactions	67
Sociotechnical design a review and future interdisciplinary perspectives involving thermodynamics in today societal contest	66
Evaluation of thermal performance of immersion flow boiling thermal management in large-scale battery packs with simplified model	64
A new approach for heat transfer coefficient determination in triply periodic minimal surface-based heat exchangers	63
Power maximization for multistage endoreversible non-isothermal-chemical-engine based on Lewis analogy	63
Numerical simulation of scramjet engine with compressibility corrections on k-ε	63
Insights from the Weinbaum-Jiji framework: Examining time-fractional dual-phase lag models in heat conduction in skin tissues	63
An improved POD-Galerkin method for rapid prediction of three-dimensional temperature field for an IGBT module	63
Numerical simulations for artillery barrel temperature variation considering mechanical friction heat under continuous shots	63