The topics covered in this special issue are related to the research of the phenomena of heat and mass transfer in the various areas of engineering and range from mathematics models and methods of numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer processes in generalized technical systems to the development of technologies in food and biomass processing and creation of real technical solutions in mechanical engineering.

The topics covered in this special issue are related to the research of the phenomena of heat and mass transfer in the various areas of engineering and range from mathematics models and methods of numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer processes in generalized technical systems to the development of technologies in food and biomass processing and creation of real technical solutions in mechanical engineering. Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Mass Transfer, Diffusion, Viscous Fluid, Nanofluids, Stagnation Point, Hydro-Elastic Oscillation, Numerical Simulation, Mathematics Model, Thermal Analysis, Water Pressure, Vortex, Heat Affected Zone, Laser Cutting, Bubbles, Shaped Tube, Jet Pump, Food Processing, Drying, Drying Kinetics, Hybrid Drying, Water Absorption, Cooling, Freezing Materials Science, General Engineering, Mechanical Engineering.

The special volume of the Defect and Diffusion Forum periodical, which is titled “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows”, covers a variety of interesting topics related to diffusion phenomena, heat transfer, and fluid flows.

Special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only

This special topic volume of Defect and Diffusion Forum covers in a wider sense diffusion related phenomena. One of the most important challenges of modern society is the efficient, secure and sustainable generation and conversion of energy. This topics spans from the application of classical fossil fuels (e.g. oil and coal based) to natural gas and more alternative approaches which are based on bio fuels, solar energy and wave energy conversion. In the same way important are the connected topics of reusing waste thermal energy as well as the opposite need of cooling. A further topic which requires a similar skill set and which is covered in this topical volume is related to the manufacturing (e.g. furnaces), modification (e.g. heat treatment) and processing (thermal cutting) of materials.

This volume of the journal “Defect and Diffusion Forum” presents readers with the special issue “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows V” which contains articles covering theoretical and practical aspects of modeling and numerical investigation of the diffusion in solid materials, diffusive convection, magnetohydromagnetic mixed convective flows and heat transfer phenomena in different media and engineering objects.

This special issue “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows X” in the journal "Defect and Diffusion Forum" presents a collection of peer-reviewed works associated with diffusion phenomena, the motion of the fluid flow and heat transfer in the technical and natural systems.