Enclosure flows, resulting from the buoyancy-induced thermal/solute plumes, mechanical-driven forced convection, or combinations, are often encountered in building ventilation, electronic cooling, and the processing of food and alloys. Enclosure flows have been extensively investigated by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as it could present full information with least cost, whereas CFD can be implemented only upon the specified boundary and initial conditions of velocity, thermal, and pollutes. For actual control and design of fluid flow, fluid velocity, temperature, or solute concentration within some regions should be maintained at some values to achieve prospective goals, including thermal comfort, temperature limits of electronics, and uniform crystal growth, which thus determine the boundary or initial conditions of enclosure flows. Either, for industrial furnace, emergent building fire and airborne pollutant spread, spatial and temporal monitoring measurements on fluid velocity, or temperature and solute concentration should be employed to identify the “black” states and sources. All these questions, reversely determining the cause with the effect (field results), can be called as inverse CFD problem.

We invite authors to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing effort to understand the inverse CFD solutions of enclosure fluid, heat, and mass transports. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Inverse problems involving with fluid convections
• Numerical methodologies for inverse CFD problems
• Diverse engineering applications relevant to inverse CFD problems

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due	Friday, 16 December 2011
First Round of Reviews	Friday, 16 March 2012
Publication Date	Friday, 15 June 2012

Lead Guest Editor

• Fu-Yun Zhao, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Technische Universität München (TUM), München, Germany

Guest Editors

• Di Liu, School of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
• Steve H. L. Yim, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA