Preface

Abstract

The 37th UIT Heat Transfer Conference was organized by the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Padova (Italy) and held at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, Padova, on June 24-26, 2019.The annual UIT Conference, which has grown over time, was held in Padova for the first time since the foundation of this conference.The scope of the conference covers a range of many topics in theoretical, numerical and experimental heat transfer and related areas, ranging from energy efficiency to nuclear plants. This time the UIT Conference included an International Symposium on “Refrigerants: heat transfer and applications”. This Symposium was held on June 26, 2019, which was the first World Refrigeration Day, and was organized in collaboration with CNR, Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione.In this conference edition, 99 papers were contributed plus three keynote lectures. The keynote lectures were given by Srinivas Garimella (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Alberto Cavallini (Emeritus professor at University of Padova) and Enrico Nobile (University of Trieste). For the Symposium on Refrigerants, invited lectures were given by Pega Hrnjak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Bjorn Palm (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Petter Neksa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and José Miguel Corberan (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain).These proceedings collects two keynote lectures and 58 papers selected from those presented and discussed during the Conference.The conference was an important occasion to stimulate discussion, improve the understanding of heat transfer and related phenomena, present the state of the art of some topics, discuss emerging trends and promote collaborations.A special thank is due to the Organizing and Scientific Committees, to the Sponsors, to the Reviewers of the papers and to all the Participants.Davide Del Col, Luisa Rossetto and Stefano Bortolin - Editors List of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee and Sponsors are available in this PDF.