Micro/Nanotransport Phenomena in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

Guest Editors: G. P. “Bud” Peterson, Chen Li, Moran Wang, and Gang Chen Micro/Nanotransport Phenomena in Renewable Energy and Energy Efﬁciency Advances in Mechanical Engineering Micro/Nanotransport Phenomena in Renewable Energy and Energy Efﬁciency

This is a special issue published in volume 2010 of “Advances in Mechanical Engineering.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, pro- vided the original work is properly cited. Advances in Mechanical Engineering

Editorial Board

Koshi Adachi, Japan Jiin-Yuh Jang, Taiwan Dik J. Schipper, The Netherlands Mehdi Ahmadian, USA Zhongmin Jin, UK Steven R. Schmid, USA Rehan Ahmed, UK Essam Eldin Khalil, Egypt A. Seshadri Sekhar, India Claude Bathias, France Xianwen Kong, UK A. A. Shabana, USA Adib Becker, UK Chungxiang Li, China C. S. Shin, Taiwan Leonardo Bertini, Italy Jaw-Ren Lin, Taiwan Yung C. Shin, USA Liam Blunt, UK Cheng-Xian Lin, USA Ray W. Snidle, UK Marco Ceccarelli, Italy Oronzio Manca, Italy Christian Soize, France Hyung Hee Cho, South Korea Aristide F. Massardo, Italy Margaret Stack, UK Seung Bok Choi, South Korea Kim Choon Ng, Singapore Neil Stephen, UK Bijan K. Dutta, India Cong Tam Nguyen, Canada Kumar K. Tamma, USA Bogdan I. Epureanu, USA Hiroshi Noguchi, Japan Cho W. Solomon To, USA Mohammad Reza Eslami, Iran Andrew Ooi, Australia Yoshihiro Tomita, Japan Amir Faghri, USA HakanF.Oztop,Turkey Shandong Tu, China Ali Fatemi, USA Duc Pham, UK Moran Wang, USA Siegfried Fouvry, France Homer Rahnejat, UK Fengfeng (Jeﬀ) Xi, Canada Ian A. Frigaard, Canada Subhash Rakheja, Canada Hiroshi Yabuno, Japan Mike Ian Friswell, UK John E. Renaud, USA WeiM.Yan,Taiwan Yuebin Guo, USA Robert L. Reuben, UK Byeng Youn, USA Zhen Huang, China Bidyut Baran Saha, Singapore Zhongrong Zhou, China Thomas H. Hyde, UK Kazuhiro Saitou, USA Contents

Micro/Nanotransport Phenomena in Renewable Energy and Energy Eﬃciency,G.P.“Bud”Peterson, Chen Li, Moran Wang, and Gang Chen Volume 2010, Article ID 170590, 2 pages

Metallic Light Absorbers Produced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses,AnatoliyY.VorobyevandChunleiGuo Volume 2010, Article ID 452749, 4 pages

A Continuum Model for Water Transport in the Ionomer-Phase of Catalyst Coated Membranes for PEMFCs, Vladimir Gurau and J. Adin Mann Jr. Volume 2010, Article ID 372795, 16 pages

Experimental and Numerical Study on the Cold Start Performance of a Single PEM Fuel Cell, Calvin H. Li and G. P. Peterson Volume 2010, Article ID 403816, 11 pages

Mesoscopic Modeling of Multiphysicochemical Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, Qinjun Kang, Moran Wang, Partha P. Mukherjee, and Peter C. Lichtner Volume 2010, Article ID 142879, 11 pages

Experimental Investigations on the Eﬀects of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Fuel Additives on Biodiesel, V. Sajith, C. B. Sobhan, and G. P. Peterson Volume 2010, Article ID 581407, 6 pages

Eﬀect of Localized Heating on Three-Dimensional Flat-Plate Oscillating Heat Pipe,S.M.Thompsonand H. B. Ma Volume 2010, Article ID 465153, 10 pages

Turbulent Heat Transfer Behavior of Nanoﬂuid in a Circular Tube Heated under Constant Heat Flux, Shuichi Torii Volume 2010, Article ID 917612, 7 pages

Field Synergy Principle for Energy Conservation Analysis and Application,QunChen,MoranWang, and Zeng-Yuan Guo Volume 2010, Article ID 129313, 9 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mechanical Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 170590, 2 pages doi:10.1155/2010/170590

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