Defect and Diffusion Forum

Description: This volume contains papers presented during the 27^th National Conference on Heat Treatment, held on November 26 - 28, 2019 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. Papers are focused on many aspects of the modern technologies of heat treatment of metallic materials: heat treatment of 3D printed alloys and intermetallic compounds, cryogenic treatment of tool steels and cemented carbides, research of the effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and properties of metal materials.

Description: This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Experimental and Computational Mechanic in Engineering (ICECME, Indonesia, 18-9 September 2019) in conjunction with 9th AIC 2019 International Conference which reflect the last research results and engineering decisions in the area of materials science and technologies of materials processing.

Description: This special issue on “Computational Analysis of Heat Transfer in Fluids and Solids II” in the journal “Defect and Diffusion Forum” addresses various nonlinear models involving heat transfer phenomenon in fluids and solids. Computational techniques are employed to analyze the engineering solutions in the area of heat and mass transfer and numerical results are discussed in order to demonstrate the salient features of practical engineering and industrial applications. The topics covered in this issue include: tribology, extended surfaces fins, reactive flow problem, Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow, nanofluids dynamics, boundary layer flow, natural convection, hydrodynamic stability, biomechanics, plasma physics, physics of dusty plasma, forced convection, mixed convection, magnetohydrodynamics, thermal radiation, flow in porous media, and irreversibility analysis.

Description: Research on mass and thermal transport in engineering materials continues to be a rapidly expanding major area of materials science and engineering. It is an exciting area. It is clear that gaining an in-depth understanding of mass and thermal transport underpins the major breakthroughs needed in the development of new materials for new technologies and the improvement of existing materials in service. This topical volume, which is entitled “Recent Progress in Mass Transport in Engineering Materials”, was designed to capture a very wide and significant cross section of contemporary international research on mass and thermal transport. It ranges from basic strategic research through to quite applied areas. This volume spans, for example, the modelling of multiphase fluid flow in porous media for enhanced oil recovery to heat transfer in fixed bed reactors, from the modelling of the drying processes to the growing of indium oxide thin films. We thank the authors for their participation in this volume and the reviewers for their time and efforts.

Description: 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.

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This volume of the journal contains papers presented at the International Conference on Materials Engineering and Science (IConMEAS 2018), held at Istanbul, Turkey, August 08-09, 2018 and focuses on the research results in the field of materials science for various branches of industry and construction.

Description: In the field of engineering, the ability of a finished part to fulfil its function in the intended application is closely related to properties of materials for its production. The development of new high-technology structural materials, adapted to each new application, requires knowledge of base matter properties, the regularity of changes in its microstructure and properties during processing. This volume contains results of research of the microstructures of materials, methods by which the latter are worked, the effect of interactions at the interfaces for multi-materials and how structure determines their final properties.

Description: 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.

Description: This volume contains papers collected by results of the Conference on Vacuum Heat Treatment and Heat Treatment of Tools that was held on November 20 - 21, 2018 in Puchov, Slovakia. The published papers cover different fields of the main conference topic, such as heat treatment of tool steels in a vacuum; thermo-chemical treatment of tool steels; cryogenic treatments; interrelationships between the treatment parameters, obtained microstructures and resulting mechanical properties; distortion behaviour of components, and wear performance of tools and engineering components.

Description: This volume of the journal contains papers from the 3rd International Conference on Material Science and Engineering Technology (3rd ICMSET 2019) was taken place in Saipan, USA, during March 15-17, 2019 and presents readers research results in the field of applied materials and advanced materials processing technologies.