Defect and Diffusion Forum

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.

Description: This volume of the journal “Defect and Diffusion Forum” presents to readers the next 9th special issue from the series “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows” which contains articles covering theoretical and practical aspects of modeling and numerical investigation of the diffusive convection and magnetohydromagnetic mixed convective flows, heat transfer phenomena in different media and engineering objects, solving other engineering problems related to heat and mass transfer phenomena.

Description: This volume of the journal “Defect and Diffusion Forum” presents to readers the next 8th special issue from the series “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows” which contains articles covering theoretical and practical aspects of modeling and numerical investigation of the diffusive convection and magnetohydromagnetic mixed convective flows, heat transfer phenomena in different media and engineering objects, solving other engineering problems related to heat and mass transfer phenomena.

Description: The present volume attempts to capture some of this excitement by providing a cross-section of contemporary research in mass transfer and thermal processes in the modern engineering materials and technologies. The volume spans both experiment and modelling and covers both basic research and applied research. Topics covered are broad, covering heat exchange in porous media to the drying of sisal fibre, from the role of nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery to the atomistic of grain boundary diffusion and segregation.

Description: This volume of the journal “Defect and Diffusion Forum” presents to readers the special issue “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows VII” which contains articles covering theoretical and practical aspects of modeling and numerical investigation of the diffusion processes, heat and mass transfer processes and fluid mechanics in different media and engineering objects.

Description: This volume of the journal “Defect and Diffusion Forum” presents readers with the special issue “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows VI” 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.

Description: Modern Engineering and Physics very often deal with the need for the design of natural or induced phenomena and processes and this is especially true in the problems involving heat transfer or fluid flows, often on the basis of a Thermodynamic viewpoint or of the Constructal Law. These broad areas of research are presented in this special issue of the journal "Defect and Diffusion Forum".