摘要
We are very pleased to introduce the following selected and peer reviewed papers from the 16th UK National Heat Transfer Conference(UKHTC2019)to Journal of Bionic Engineering(JBE),which is related to nature inspired research works on bubbles and drops patterns as well as wettings and heat transfer.The UKHTC2019 conference brought together scientists and engineers,working on a wide range of topics of thermal science and engineering to exchange information on the state-of-the-art and recent developments in areas related to the Conference themes,and to encourage fundamental studies of heat and mass transfer as well as the practical and efficient use of thermal energy.Nature inspired heat transfer is one of the conference themes and the selected papers included for JIBE focus on nature inspired solutions of lotus leaf efect,plant capillary effect,and Marangoni effect,etc.The papers were orally presented at UKHTC2019,Notingham,UK,during the period of 8-10 September 2019.
