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Hybrid Methods in Engineering

Editor-in-Chief: Renato M. Cotta Mikhail D. Mikhailov

ISSN Imprimir: 1099-2391

ISSN On-line: 2641-7359

Editor-in-Chief

Renato M. Cotta

Laboratory of Nano- and Microfluidics and Microsystems, LabMEMS, Mechanical Engineering Department and Nanotechnology Engineering Dept., POLI & COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Cx. Postal 68503, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 21945-970, Brazil; Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Social Development—NIDES/CT, UFRJ, Brazil; Mechanical Engineering Department, University College London, United Kingdom

Editor-in-Chief

Mikhail D. Mikhailov

Applied Mathematics Center, PO Box 384, Sofia, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria; and Mechanical Engineering Department—EE/COPPE/UFRJ, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitaria, CP 68.503, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21945-970, Brasil

Conselho editorial

A. Aziz Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 99258, USA Email: aziz@gonzaga.edu

Pinhas Z. Bar-Yoseph Computational Mechanics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion − Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel Email: merbygr@cml.technion.ac.il

C. J. Chen Tallahassee, FL

Renato M. Cotta Laboratory of Nano- and Microfluidics and Microsystems, LabMEMS, Mechanical Engineering Department and Nanotechnology Engineering Dept., POLI & COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Cx. Postal 68503, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 21945-970, Brazil; Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Social Development—NIDES/CT, UFRJ, Brazil; Mechanical Engineering Department, University College London, United Kingdom Email: renatocotta@hotmail.com; cotta@mecanica.coppe.ufrj.br

M. Cross Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Studies, Sunderland Polytechnic, UK

Graham de Vahl Davis University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia Email: g.devahldavis@unsw.edu.au

Dominique Gobin University Paris-Saclay Email: dominique.gobin@centralesupelec.fr

P. Hagedorn Darmstadt, Germany

James P. Hartnett Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680-4348, USA Email: hartnett@uic.edu

Peter J. Heggs School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Dept of Chem Eng, UMIST, Sackville St., Manchester, M60 1QD Email: P.J.Heggs@leeds.ac.uk

Sadik Kakac Department of Mechanical Engineering,TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara-Turkey; and LIPING CAO, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, PA; and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Miami, Florida - USA Email: sadikkakac@yahoo.com; skakac@eng.miami.edu

Woo-Seung Kim Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, 1271 Sa-1 dong, Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Kyeonggi-do, 425-791, Korea Email: wskim@hanyang.ac.kr

Roland W. Lewis College of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, United Kingdom Email: r.w.lewis@swansea.ac.uk

N. Maculan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nicos C. Markatos NAT.Techn.Univ. of Athens Email: n.markatos@ntua.gr

Oleg G. Martynenko A. V. Luikov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka str., 220072, Minsk, Belarus

Mikhail D. Mikhailov Applied Mathematics Center, PO Box 384, Sofia, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria; and Mechanical Engineering Department—EE/COPPE/UFRJ, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitaria, CP 68.503, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21945-970, Brasil Email: mikhailov@serv.com.ufrj.br; mikhailov@lttc.coppe.ufrj.br

W.J. Minkowycz Department of Mechanical Engineering (M/C251), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA Email: wjm@mailserv.uic.edu WJM@uic.edu

Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, CEERE, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Email: mohamad@ucalgary.ca

M. N. Ozisik Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N. C. 27607

Ioan Pop Department of Applied Mathematics, Babes-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Email: popi@math.ubbcluj.ro; popm.ioan@yahoo.co.uk; pop.ioan@hotmail.com

Juan I. Ramos Escuela de Ingenierias Industriales, Universidad de Malaga, Dr. Ortiz Ramos, s/n 29071 Malaga, Spain Email: jirs@lcc.uma.es

Sergio Hamilton Sphaier Ocean Engineering Department - EP/COPPE/UFRJ, CP50508, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Email: sphaier@peno.coppe.ufrj.br

Bengt Sunden Division of Heat Transfer, Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden Email: bengt.sunden@energy.lth.se

Kenjiro Suzuki Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto; Department of Machinery and Control Systems, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 307 Fukasaku, Saitama, 337-8570, Japan Email: ksuzuki@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp ksuzuki@sic.shibaura.ac.jp

Kumar K. Tamma Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Church Street 111 S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Email: ktamma@umn.edu

M. Ungs Tetra Tech, Inc., 3746 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Ste.300, Lafayette, CA 94549-3681, USA

Marco T. Vilhena Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto de Matematica Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Email: vilhena@pq.cnpq.br;vilhena@mat.ufrgs.br

Yaman Yener Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 Email: yaman@neu.edu