Oronzio Manca

Oronzio Manca was an Associate Professor of thermal sciences at Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II from November 1992 to October 1995 and at Facoltà di Ingegneria della Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (SUN), from November 1995 to October 1999, where he has been a Professor of Thermal Sciences since November 1999. He has been the Coordinator of Industrial Engineering Area since January 2005 at SUN. He has been the Tutor of many (about 100) theoretical, numerical, and experimental theses in thermal sciences and heat transfer and he has been and is the Tutor of 11 Ph.D. students. The main scientific activities are on active solar systems, passive solar systems, refrigerant fluids, natural and mixed convection in open-ended cavity with and without porous media, conduction in solids irradiated by moving heat sources, combined radiative and conductive fields in multilayer thin films, analytical and numerical solutions in material processing, thermal control of electronic equipment and solar systems, and heat transfer augumentation by nanofluids. He has been and is the Scientific Coordinator of research grants. He will be the Scientific Coordinator of EliosLab training courses from 2008 to 2010. He is author or coauthor of 246 scientific papers: 53 in international peer-reviewed journals, 6 in national journals, 5 in chapters of international books, 65 in peer-reviewed international congress proceedings, 36 in international congress proceedings, 81 in national congress proceedings. He is currently a member of the editorial advisory boards for The Open Thermodynamics Journal and Advances in Mechanical Engineering.

Biography Updated on 26 October 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Effect of a moving plate on heat transfer in a uniform heat flux vertical channel
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2008
  2. Compounded natural convection enhancement in a vertical parallel-plate channel
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 742–748, 2008
  3. Thermal management of a symmetrically heated channel–chimney system
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2008
  4. Experimental investigation on natural convection in a convergent channel with uniformly heated plates
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 50, no. 13-14, pp. 2772–2786, 2007
  5. Numerical Investigation of Transient Natural Convection in a Horizontal Channel Heated from the Upper Wall
    Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 815–842, 2007
  6. Numerical Investigation of Transient Natural Convection in Air in a Convergent Vertical Channel Symmetrically Heated at Uniform Heat Flux
    Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1065–1086, 2007
  7. Numerical Analysis of Radiative Effects on Natural Convection in Vertical Convergent and Symmetrically Heated Channels
    Numerical Heat Transfer: Part A: Applications, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 369–391, 2006
  8. Experimental Investigation of Mixed Convection in a Channel With an Open Cavity
    Experimental Heat Transfer, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 53–68, 2006
  9. Thermal design and optimization of vertical convergent channels in natural convection
    Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 26, no. 2-3, pp. 170–177, 2006
  10. Entropy generation in natural convection in a symmetrically and uniformly heated vertical channel
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 49, no. 17-18, pp. 3221–3228, 2006
  11. Numerical Investigation of the Natural Convection Flows for Low-Prandtl Fluids in Vertical Parallel-Plates Channels
    Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 73, no. 1, p. 96, 2006
  12. NUMERICAL STUDY OF NATURAL CONVECTION IN VERTICAL CHANNELS WITH ADIABATIC EXTENSIONS DOWNSTREAM
    Numerical Heat Transfer: Part A: Applications, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 741–762, 2005
  13. Experimental Investigation of Natural Convection in an Asymmetrically Heated Vertical Channel with an Asymmetric Chimney
    Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 127, no. 8, p. 888, 2005
  14. Theoretical comparison of two-dimensional transient analysis between back and front laser treatment of thin multilayer films
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 611–621, 2004
  15. EFFECT OF HEATED WALL POSITION ON MIXED CONVECTION IN A CHANNEL WITH AN OPEN CAVITY
    Numerical Heat Transfer: Part A: Applications, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 259–282, 2003
  16. Experimental analysis of asymmetrical isoflux channel-chimney systems
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 837–846, 2003
  17. Thermal design of symmetrically and asymmetrically heated channel–chimney systems in natural convection
    Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 605–621, 2003
  18. Approximate Analytic Estimate of Axial Fluid Conduction in Laminar Forced Convection Tube Flows with Zero-to-Uniform Step Wall Heat Fluxes
    Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 49–58, 2003
  19. NUMERICAL SOLUTION TO THE NATURAL CONVECTION ON VERTICAL ISOFLUX PLATES BY FULL ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS
    Numerical Heat Transfer: Part A: Applications, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 263–283, 2002
  20. Heat and fluid flow resulting from the chimney effect in a symmetrically heated vertical channel with adiabatic extensions
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 1101–1111, 2002
  21. Natural convection in vertical channels with an auxiliary plate
    International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 716–734, 2002
  22. Effect on Natural Convection of the Distance Between an Inclined Discretely Heated Plate and a Parallel Shroud Below
    Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 124, no. 3, p. 441, 2002
  23. Thermal and fluid dynamic behavior of symmetrically heated vertical channels with auxiliary plate
    International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 424–432, 2001
  24. Transient conductive–radiative numerical analysis of multilayer thin films heated by different laser pulses
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 959–968, 2001
  25. Experimental Analysis of Thermal Instability in Natural Convection Between Horizontal Parallel Plates Uniformly Heated
    Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 122, no. 1, p. 50, 2000
  26. Two-Dimensional Transient Analysis of Absorbing Thin Films in Laser Treatments
    Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 122, no. 1, p. 113, 2000
  27. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PARTIALLY HEATED VERTICAL PARALLEL PLATES IN NATURAL CONVECTIVE COOLING
    Numerical Heat Transfer: Part A: Applications, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 129–151, 1999
  28. Combined thermal and optical analysis of laser back-scribing for amorphous-silicon photovoltaic cells processing
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 645–656, 1999
  29. Composite Correlations for Air Natural Convection in Tilted Channels
    Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 64–72, 1999
  30. Instationary conjugate optical-thermal fields in thin films due to pulsed laser heating: A comparison between back and front treatment
    Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 255–261, 1998
  31. Optimum plate separation in vertical parallelplate channels for natural convective flows: incorporation of large spaces at the channel extremes
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 993–1000, 1997
  32. Thermal transient analysis of thin film multilayers heated by pulsed laser
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 40, no. 18, pp. 4487–4491, 1997
  33. Quasi-steady-state three-dimensional temperature distribution induced by a moving circular gaussian heat source in a finite depth solid
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1305–1315, 1995
  34. Solution to steady-state three-dimensional conduction for a rectangular surface heat source on a semi-infinite body
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 799–808, 1994
  35. Modeles thermiques simplifies pour le durcissement superficiel par laser et faisceaux d'electronsVereinfacte termische modelle fur die oberflachenaushartung mittels laser- und elektronenstrahlenУпpoщeнныe тeплoвыe мoдeли пoвepхнocтнoгo yпpoхнeния c пoмoщью лaзepных и элeктpoнных пyхкoв
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 2511–2518, 1990
  36. Surface periodic on-off heat flux over a semi-infinite body
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 125–134, 1990
  37. Comparaison entre deux modeles du champ thermique dans les procedes de traitement thermique superficiel avec laser et faisceaux d'electronsEin vergleich zwischen modellen von mit laser-oder elektronenstrahl behandelten temperaturfelderncpaвнeниe мoдeлeи pacхeтa тeмпepaтypных пoлeи пpи oбpaбoткe пoвepхнocтeи лaзepным и элeктpoнным лyхaми
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 99–106, 1988