Progress in Electromagnetic Analysis and Modeling of Heating Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 68
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electromagnetic processing of material; numerical modeling; optimization methods
Interests: electrification of industrial processes; electromagnetic processing of materials; sustainable industrial thermal process technologies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Energies dedicated to the electrification of thermal processes, particularly industrial ones.
Technologies that use electricity to treat and transform materials, particularly induction, dielectric, and microwave heating methods, as well as traditional electric heating with resistors, play a key role in the transition to production systems with reduced environmental impact. The electrification of industrial processes implies using electricity as the main energy source for industrial operations in place of fossil fuels (such as natural gas, coal, and oil), and in addition to a significant reduction in pollutant emissions, this offers other advantages related to the efficiency, precision, repeatability, and cleanliness of electrothermal processes.
Interest in the technologies that we have studied or applied has received new momentum, especially with new regulations that penalize greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
The opportunity to promote our research in the field of electrothermal energy in a journal like Energies, which is of recognized quality (Q1 for engineering in general) and has a very wide impact due to its high readership, is a key opportunity to disseminate the results of our research to a very wide audience.
The topics that I would like to see covered, both as scientific articles that present the most current research and as state-of-the-art review articles, include the following:
- Innovative applications of EPM technologies.
- Case studies on the electrification of industrial processes.
- Innovative numerical methods for solving coupled problems.
- The optimization of electrothermal processes.
- Digital Twins, Machine Learning, and AI: perspectives for the development of electrothermal systems.
- The development of innovative materials through EPM technologies.
- Recent developments in power and control electronics systems.
- Special applications, including not only domestic and medical ones but also non-industrial applications.
Dr. Michele Forzan
Prof. Dr. Egbert Baake
Prof. Dr. Koen Van Reusel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electromagnetic processing of material
- induction heating
- magnetohydrodynamics
- dielectric heating
- numerical modeling, coupled problems
- optimization
- thermal process electrification
- digital twins
- machine learning
- innovative applications in electrical heating
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