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The present Proceedings will provide as a platform to dissemination of knowledge among researchers and scholars in the field of thermofluids particularly related to the areas such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion which also covers wide range of specialization such as thermal system, power plant technology, refrigeration and air-conditioning, computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery, desalinization, and tribology.
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Preface: The 4th International Meeting of Advances in Thermofluids (IMAT 2011).- Committees.- KEYNOTE LECTURES.- Thermoacoustic engines and refrigerators.- Biomass energy: Sustainable solution for greenhouse gas emission.- Atomization of a liquid jet in a crossflow.- SESSION PRESENTATIONS.- Analysis of bouyancy-aided convection heat transfer from horizontal cylinder at low Reynolds number.- Cooling of a rectangular microchannel heat sink with ammonia gas.- Numerical prediction on the dispersion of pollutant particles.- Thermal stresses in the wall of pipes caused by periodic change of temperature of medium fluid.- Reacting shock waves characteristics for biogas compared to other gaseous fuel.- Advances in aluminum powder usage as an energetic material and applications for rocket propellant.- Characterisation of aerosol combustible mixtures generated using condensation process.- Development of vapor pressure in FR4-copper composite material during solder reflow process.- Effect of orifice diameter on characteristics of hollow cone swirl spray emanating from simplex nozzles.- The effect of flow recirculation on abdominal aortic aneurysm.- The use of least squares methods in functional optimization of energy use prediction models.- Wall Y+ approach for dealing with turbulent flow through a constant area duct.- Aerodynamics of a hybrid airship.- Analysis of single phase flow pressure drop and heat transfer in a horizontal rifled tube.- Comparison of cell centered and cell vertex scheme in the calculation of high speed compressible flows.- Computational analysis of flow field around Ahmed car model passing underneath a flyover.- Computational analysis of heat flow in computer casing.- Cubic interpolation profile Navier-Stokes numerical scheme for particle flow behaviour in triangular lid driven cavity.- Development and validation of a correlation for exit velocity of water through OP nozzle usingCFD simulation.- Experimental study the effect of speeds in wear using fourball tribotester.- Experimental study on temperature profile of fixed - bed gasification of oil-palm fronds.- Free convection in square cavity driven by discrete three source-sink pairs on one sidewall.- Assessment of thermal comfort in a naturally ventilated residential terrace house.- Heat transfer study in oil channels of a transformer ODAF cooling system based on numerical modeling.- Manipulation of operating configuration of cool air supply in buildings for reduction of cooling energy.- Analysis of partially textured slider and journal bearing.- A full three dimensional Navier-Stokes numerical simulation of flow field inside a power plant Kaplan turbine using some model test turbine hill chart points.- Computational fluid dynamics based aerodynamic optimization of the wind tunnel primaryNozzle.- Fatigue life calculation of desuperheater for solving pipe cracking issue using finite element method (FEM) software.- Modelling of diesel engine fuelled with biodiesel using engine simulation software.- Numerical study of cross flow fan performance in an indoor air conditioning unit.- A study about the split drag flaps deflections to directional motion of UiTM's blended wing body aircraft based on computational fluid dynamics simulation.- High speed flow characteristics in gun tunnel.- New empirical correlations for sizing adiabatic capillary tubes in refrigeration systems.- Simulation on effects of porosity pattern arrangement of porous media during drying.- Study on a two-evaporator system for humidity control.- The density ratio effects on the motion of a three-dimensional drop in Poiseuille flow at finite Reynolds numbers.- Thermal stresses investigation of a gas turbine blade.- Comparison of eddy dissipation model and presumed probability density function model for temperature prediction in a non-premixed turbulent methane flame.- An analysis of a viscous dissipation flow.- Highly-resolved large eddy simulation of the nonreacting flow in an asymmetric vortex combus
