International Journal of Thermophysics - Special Issue
on Transport Property Measurements in Research and Industry:
Recommended Techniques and Instrumentation (By Invitation Only)
Motivation
There is an increasing trend for work on transport properties to be conducted by those new to the field who conduct the measurements in the pursuit of an engineering or scientific objective beyond the properties themselves. Very often they seek the values of the properties of materials not previously studied or even fabricated. In such cases the difficulties of transport property measurements are easily underestimated, and the techniques adopted are far from ideal for accurate work. While it is certainly arguable that the highest accuracy in measurements is not always needed for engineering purposes, the errors that can arise from the choice of inappropriate methods can be substantial and lead to spurious claims for engineering advances.
This new special issue of International Journal of Thermophysics is intended primarily to serve as a resource for workers interested in the transport properties of materials, when considering the methods they should adopt for measurement of such properties in their own work, or in judging the results of the work of others.
A second purpose is to provide referees and editors of journals with the tools to make judgments about papers submitted for publication. The criteria for selection of techniques and papers to be included in this special issue are therefore exactly those that referees should use in assessing fitness for publication.
Scope
The purpose of the special issue is to produce clear recommendations as to the experimental techniques that have been demonstrated to provide reliable values for the transport properties of materials. Submissions will cover all transport properties including:
- viscosity
- thermal conductivity
- thermal diffusivity
- diffusion coefficients
- thermal diffusion (Soret and Dufour)
- coefficients interfacial tensions in fluids
- electrical conductivity of solids
The materials studied will include gases, liquids and solids and encompass both pure systems and mixtures. The focus will be especially upon homogeneous systems of single phases, but means of studying anisotropic materials and the effective properties of multiphase materials will not be excluded.
Papers included will provide a summary and a comprehensive guide to the published theory of an experimental technique and describe its latest realizations and validations for one or more thermodynamic states. The paper should also provide clear statements of the benefits of the selected methods and the materials and ranges of conditions for which they are appropriate. It will be recognised that no single technique is suitable for covering the range of thermodynamic states in which the properties are required so that there may well be a number of complementary techniques recommended for a given property. All recommended techniques will share the common features that they have a well characterised theory for a practical instrument and that they can be demonstrated to work in accordance with it. However, not all techniques will be capable of operation in an absolute manner so that in such cases appropriate calibration mechanisms described and materials must be available and validated.
The accuracy of a given technique or instrument will depend upon the type of material studied and the thermodynamic conditions. It will always be important to demonstrate the claimed accuracy has been achieved but not a requirement that the accuracy is the highest that has ever been achieved.
Submission Guidelines
Prospective authors are invited to first contact the Guest Editors with an outline of the paper they intend to submit, in order that it can be assessed for suitability.
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal’s Submission Guidelines (this opens in a new tab), and submitted online via the “Submit manuscript” link on the journal homepage (this opens in a new tab).
Peer review will be managed by the team of Guest Editors, to the usual review standards of the journal. The EiC’s decision shall be final.
Guest Editors
William A. Wakeham
Southampton University, UK
Email: W.A.Wakeham@soton.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab)
Marc J. Assael
Aristotle University, Greece
Email: marc.assael@gmail.com (this opens in a new tab)
Submission Deadline
The SI will be open for submissions from March 1st, 2023
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