The 22nd National and 11th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference was held in India at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur campus during the period December 28–31, 2013. The topics included all aspects of heat and mass transfer. It was decided that some contributed papers, applications in nature and presented at the conference, after being recommended by the international scientific community, would be considered for publication in a special issue of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications. The selected papers have undergone a rigorous peer-review process.
The papers included in this special issue are focused on various current topics and applied physics relevant to heat and mass transfer. A companion special issue of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT) is published and contains papers of fundamental nature from the same conference. The JHT papers have also undergone a strict peer-review process similar to other...
