EDITORIAL: IJMNTFTP IS IN ITS FIFTH YEAR: GREAT SUCCESS, ACHIEVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

摘要

The International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena (IJMNTFTP) is now in its fifth year. I am very happy to see the great success of this new journal and its continuously growing and developing since I formed this new journal in 2010. It is becoming a very important vehicle to promoting research and knowledge dissemination in microscale and nanoscale thermal and fluid transport phenomena and the relevant interdisciplinary research. Applications of microscale and nanoscale thermal and fluid transport phenomena involved in traditional industries and highly specialized fields such as bioengineering, microfabricated fluidic systems, microelectronics, aerospace technology, micro heat pipes, electronic chips cooling, thermal management and relevant interdisciplinary research areas etc. have been becoming very important research topics since the late 20th century [1-11]. However, many fundamental and applied issues in microscale and nanoscale thermal and fluid transport phenomena need to be well understood. Furthermore, new research areas are emerging the relevant areas from time to time. For example, as a new research frontier of nanotechnology, the research of nanofluid two-phase flow and thermal physics is rapidly growing, but it has also posed new challenges as there are quite contradictory results in the available research [3, 9, 10] and thus systematic studies on the relevant topics are needed to clarify the physical phenomena and mechanisms. For another example, advances in microelectronics technology continue to develop with surprisingly rapidity and the thermal energy density of electronic devices to be dissipated is becoming much higher than ever before, therefore, it is essential to develop new high heat flux cooling technology to meet the challenging heat dissipation requirements [1-6]. For all relevant research areas, IJMNTFTP has provided an important vehicle for researchers and scientists to communicating and exchanging new research results and ideas. Over the past years, a lot of high quality research works in the relevant fields have been published in IJMNTFTP.