Advanced Heat Transfer Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications.

This article discusses the importance of advanced heat transfer technologies in addressing energy shortage, global warming, environmental issues, clean energy, energy storage, and sustainable development. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of heat transfer research and its applications in various engineering disciplines. The article also highlights the recent progress in advanced heat transfer research, including topics such as high temperature and high-pressure heat exchangers, heat transfer of supercritical fluids, numerical investigations on heat transfer, and flow characteristics of different substances. The authors express their gratitude to the contributors and reviewers of the special issue, and they hope that readers can benefit from the state-of-the-art research presented. [Extracted from the article]