Professor Chang-Lin Tien's untimely death on October 29, 2002 sent a shock wave throughout the world. People from all over the world mourned the loss of a great educator, pioneer, mentor, people's diplomat, and friend. The heat transfer community felt even a stronger pain with the loss of a great leader and an inspirational mentor. Chang-Lin had an immense and long-lasting impact on the heat transfer community through his pioneering research and community service in heat transfer. This series, itself, was a product of Chang-Lin's leadership and dedicated service. It is thus fitting that we devote this volume in memory of him. We have decided to use this volume as a bridge between the past and the future, by summarizing Chang-Lin's contributions and reviewing current and future research directions in areas in which Professor Tien made a significant impact. What could be a better way of demonstrating Chang-Lin's long-lasting contributions! We have roughly divided his contributions into six topical areas: (I) radiation and combustion, (II) micro/nanoscale heat transfer, (III) phase change and heat pipes, (IV) porous media, (V) materials processing and laser materials interactions, and (VI) energy systems. His contributions in each area are briefly summarized, followed by several review papers that cover recent developments and future directions. Contributors are mainly from Chang-Lin's former students, postdocs, close colleagues, and collaborators. The volume starts with a transcript of Professor Tien's invited talk at the 1999 national heat transfer conference, the last time he attended a heat transfer conference, followed by two memorial articles, one by Dr. Henry Yang, Chancellor of University of California at Santa Barbara, and one by Dr. Dan Mote, President of the University of Maryland. Both of them had close association with Chang-Lin. Their articles provide a peek at the broader contributions of Professor Tien and his personalities. Thermal radiation is a central topic spanning several decades of Chang-Lin's research career. His contributions in the area of radiation and combustion are reviewed by Buckius, followed by three reviews of recent developments in this field. Modest discusses the modern spectral method for the prediction of radiative heat transfer rates within combustion media. Chan summarizes the role of radiative transfer in flame structure, pollution emission, and flame extinction. Brewster and Jackson summarize advances in the modeling and numerical simulation of solid propellant combustion. The last passion of Chang-Lin's research was in micro- and nanoscale heat transfer, a field that he pioneered and nurtured. His contributions in this area are reviewed by Chen, Majumdar, and Lukes. This section is followed by seven review articles. Li and Majumdar review thermal conductivity of superlattices, nanowires, and nanotubes. McConnel and Goodson summarize thermal conductivity and heat conduction in silicon nanostructures. Narayanaswamy and Chen discuss the direct calculation of thermal emission from nanostructures. Lukes, Abramson, and Weng present recent advances in molecular dynamics simulations of nanoscale thermophysical phenomena. Guo reports on some microscale convection phenomena. Phelan, Bhattacharya, and Prasher review recent experimental data and potential explanations on the heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids - fluids seeded with nanoparticles. Tsourkas and Rubinsky develop an evolutionary computational technology, in conjunction with the concept of energy conservation, to study Darwinian evolution. Chang-Lin has made lasting contributions in phase-change heat transfer, including in the areas of rewetting and flooding; heat pipes and thermosyphons; and condensation, boiling, and other two-phase flows. His contributions to these topics are reviewed by Gerner, Peterson, and Carey. Following the review, Suh and Gerner report recent progress in the area of microscale heat pipes. Heat transfer and fluid flow in porous media is another area that Chang-Lin made groundbreaking contributions, which are reviewed by Khanafer and Vafai. They also contributed a review summarizing the state-of-the-art in this area. Norris and Shrivanasan summarized the fascinating properties and applications of a special kind of porous media - the ultralight aerogel. Chang-Lin's deep insights are again seen in his approach to laser-materials interactions. Longtin, Phinney, and Qiu reviewed Professor Tien's contributions to the understanding of laser-materials interactions including nonequilibrium between electrons and phonons, and nonlinear laser materials interactions. Longtin follows up with a review of nonequilibrium phenomena in laser-materials interactions. Grigoropoulos updates recent progress in pulsed-laser material processing and nanomachining processes. Chang-Lin's fundamental research in heat transfer has tremendous implications for various energy systems. His particular contributions to the cryogenic systems and solar systems are reviewed by Phelan. Chow, Kapat, and Kota discuss mesoscopic energy systems and changes in the design paradigm brought about by miniaturization. Bejan and Lorente review the main features of current research in engineering thermodynamics. Pierre and Cravalho present models on the thermodynamic and kinetic behavior of fuel cells and apply them to the design of novel electrodes. The list of Chang-Lin Tien's publications concludes the memorial volume.
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