Set IV is a new addition to the previous Sets I, II and III. It contains 23 invited chapters from international specialists on the topics of numerical modeling of pulsating heat pipes and of slug flows with evaporation; lattice Boltzmann modeling of pool boiling; fundamentals of boiling in microchannels and microfin tubes, CO2 and nanofluids; testing and modeling of micro-two-phase cooling systems for electronics; and various special topics (flow separation in microfluidics, two-phase sensors, wetting of anisotropic surfaces, ultra-compact heat exchangers, etc.). The invited authors are leading university researchers and well-known engineers from leading corporate research laboratories (ABB, IBM, Nokia Bell Labs). Numerous "must read" chapters are also included here for the two-phase community. Set IV constitutes a "must have" engineering and research reference together with previous Sets I, II and III for thermal engineering researchers and practitioners.

Contents:

Volume 1: Modeling of Two-Phase Flows and Heat Transfer:
- Pulsating Heat Pipes: Experimental Analysis, Design and Applications (Marco Marengo and Vadim S Nikolayev)
- Pulsating Heat Pipes: Basics of Functioning and Modeling (Vadim S Nikolayev and Marco Marengo)
- 1D Mechanistic Model and Simulation Code for Closed-Loop Pulsating Heat Pipes (Philippe Aubin, Brian P d'Entremont, David Sturzenegger, Rémy Haynau, Joseph R H Schaadt and John R Thome)
- Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Saturated Pool Boiling from Smooth and Rough Horizontal Surfaces (Ping Cheng, Shuai Gong and Chaoyang Zhang)
- Stability Analysis and Direct Numerical Simulation for Two-Phase Flows and Heat Transfer: A Complementary Approach (Lennon Ó Náraigh and Prashant Valluri)
- Numerical Modeling of Vapor Bubbles During Flow Boiling Inside Microchannels (Abhijit Mukherjee)
Volume 2: Boiling of CO₂ and Nanofluids:
- Flow Boiling of Carbon Dioxide at Low to Medium Reduced Pressures — Part 1. Carbon Dioxide Thermodynamic and Thermophysical Properties (Rita Mastrullo, Alfonso William Mauro, John R Thome, Giuseppe Peter Vanoli and Luca Viscito)
- Flow Boiling of Carbon Dioxide at Low to Medium Reduced Pressures — Part 2. Flow Pattern Maps and Pressure Drop: Experiments and Prediction Methods (Rita Mastrullo, Alfonso William Mauro, John R Thome, Giuseppe Peter Vanoli and Luca Viscito)
- Flow Boiling of Carbon Dioxide at Low to Medium Reduced Pressures — Part 3. Heat Transfer: Experiments and Prediction Methods (Rita Mastrullo, Alfonso William Mauro, John R Thome, Giuseppe Peter Vanoli and Luca Viscito)
- Flow Boiling of Carbon Dioxide at Low to Medium Reduced Pressures — Part 4. Effect of Lubricants on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop (Rita Mastrullo, Alfonso William Mauro, John R Thome, Giuseppe Peter Vanoli and Luca Viscito)
- Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux Phenomena with Nanofluids: Fundamentals, Mechanisms and Challenges (Lixin Cheng, Guodong Xia and John R Thome)
Volume 3: Micro-Two-Phase Cooling Systems:
- Disruptive Two-Phase Cooling Systems for High-Power Telecommunications Electronics (Raffaele L Amalfi, Todd Salamon, Nicolas Lamaison, Jackson B Marcinichen and John R Thome)
- Radial Hierachical Microfluidic Two-Phase Cooling for 3D Integrated Devices (Timothy Chainer, Mark Schultz, Pritish Parida, Arvind Sridhar, Chin Lee Ong, Ozgur Ozsun and Thomas Brunschwiler)
- Flow Boiling and Two-Phase Flows in Single-Microchannels and Microchannel Heat Sinks: Fundamentals, Differences, and New Areas for Research (Cristiano Bigonha Tibiriçá and Gerhardt Ribatski)
- Flow Boiling in Mini to Microdiameter Channels (Mohamed M Mahmoud and Tassos G Karayiannis)
- Mini-Thermosyphons Using Microchannel and Micro-Pin Fin Evaporators with Flow and Thermal Visualization (Houxue Huang and John R Thome)
- Experimental Evaluation of a Passive Thermosyphon Cooling System for Power Electronics (Filippo Cataldo and John R Thome)
Volume 4: Special Two-Phase Flow and Boiling Topics:
- Flow Boiling and Condensation within an Ultra-Compact Microchannel Heat Exchanger (Raffaele L Amalfi, Nicolas Lamaison, Jackson B Marcinichen and John R Thome)
- Phase Separation Microfluidics for Heat Transfer Applications (James W Palko, Hyoungsoon Lee, Chirag R Kharangate, Ki Wook Jung, Mehdi Asheghi and Kenneth E Goodson)
- Experimental Study and Modeling of Flow Boiling in Tube in Normal and Microgravity Conditions (Catherine Colin and Marine Narcy)
- Wire-Mesh Sensors and Cognate Measuring Techniques (Horst-Michael Prasser)
- Wetting on Anisotropic Surfaces (Xiaofei Wang, Md Ashiqur Rahman and Anthony M Jacobi)
- Two-Phase Flow and Boiling in Micro/Minichannels and Microfin Tubes (Wei Li, Zhi-chuan Sun and Jingzhi Zhang)

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and professional in the fields of mechanical, refrigeration, chemical, nuclear and electronics engineering on the important topics of two-phase heat transfer and two-phase flow.

John R Thome is Professor of Heat and Mass Transfer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland since 1998, where he directs the two-phase flow and heat transfer research laboratory (LTCM) with 20 some post-docs and PhD students, see http://ltcm.epfl.ch/. His work focuses on visual investigations of the fundamental phenomena of microchannel two-phase flows (in channels as small as 85 microns), new experimental and image processing techniques for microscale two-phase flows, mechanistic two-phase flow pattern based heat transfer and pressure drop models for macroscale evaporating and condensing flows, plate and multiport tube heat exchangers, computerized flow control of two-phase microcooling systems, the development of multi-microchannel evaporators for electronics cooling with up to 1200 parallel microchannels, enhanced boiling and condensation, and the numerical modeling of two-phase phenomena. He received his PhD at Oxford University, England in 1978.