International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Editor-in-Chief W. Minkowycz Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), 842 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7022, USA, Board of Editors A.R. Balakrishnan Indian Inst. of Technology Madras, Department of Chemical Engineering, 600036 Chennai, India, P. Cheng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Apt 1901 Bldg 1, 888 Yu Yuan Road, C, 200050 Shanghai, China, R. Greif Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 6135 Etcheverry Hall, Mailstop 1740, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA, C.P. Grigoropoulos Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 6135 Etcheverry Hall, Mailstop 1740, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA, E. Hahne Inst. für Thermodynamik & Wärmetechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 6, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany, A.I. Leontiev Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Dm. Ulyanova Street 4-2-297, 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation, O.G. Martynenko A.V. Lykov Inst. of Heat & Mass Transfer, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), 15 P. Brouki Street, BY-220072 Minsk, Belarus, J.W. Rose Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK, J. Taine Lab. EM2C, Ecole Centrale Paris, 5 grande Voie des Vignes, 92295 Châtenay-Malabry, France, H. Yoshida Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan, Associate Editors T. Basak Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 600 036 Chennai, India, A. Briggs Dept. of Engineering, University of London, Queen Mary & Westfield College 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK, L.A. Dombrovsky Joint Institute for High Temperatures NCHMT, Krasnokazarmennaya 17A, 111116 Moscow, Russian Federation, S. Maruyama Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan, A. Soufiani Lab. EM2C, Ecole Centrale Paris, 5 grande Voie des Vignes, 92295 Châtenay-Malabry, France, K. Spindler Inst. für Thermodynamik & Wärmetechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 6, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany, W. Tao School of Energy & Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049 Shaanxi, China, Honorary Editorial Advisory Board F. Arinc Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, J.P. Bardon ISITEM, NANTES, France, F.J. Bayley University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK, A. Bejan Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, A.E. Bergles Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, C.K. Chen National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan, ROC, Y.I. Cho Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, M. Combarnous ENSAM, Talence, France, K. Cornwell Heriot-Watt University, EDINBURGH, UK, R. Cotta Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, M. Cumo Università di Roma "La Sapienza", ROMA, Italy, M.J.S. De Lemos Inst. Tecnologico de Aeronaut, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, J.J. Delgado Domingos Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, São João De Deus, Lisboa, Portugal, J.M. Delhaye Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, A. Dolinsky Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Kiev, Ukraine, R. Echigo Tokyo, Japan, A. Faghri University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, Y. Fujita Kyushu University, FUKUOKA, Japan, R.J. Goldstein University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, J.C. Han Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, K. Hanjalic Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, Netherlands, G.F. Hewitt Imperial College London, London, UK, J.R. Howell University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, D.B. Ingham University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Y. Jaluria Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, S. Kakac Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, M. Kaviany University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, R.T. Lahey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, M. Lebouche LEMTA, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France, A. Majumdar University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, F. Mayinger Technische Universität München (TUM), München, Germany, B.B. Mikic Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, V.E. Nakoryakov Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, R. Nigmatulin Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation, F. Ogino Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, R.P. Pohorecki Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland, I. Pop University of Cluj, Cluj, Romania, D. Poulikakos Eidgenössische Technische Hochschu