PREFACE: ASIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW-2011 (ASCHT-11)

This special section consists of selected papers from the third Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ASCHT-11) chaired by Prof. Hiroshi Kawamura of Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, held from 22 to 26 September, 2011 in Kyoto, Japan. As the two preceding symposia in Xi’an, China (2007) and Jeju, Korea (2009), the ASCHT-11 successfully attracted 169 delegates from a wide variety of countries: China, India, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan and UK (in alphabetical order). The ASCHT-11 was mainly operated by Heat Transfer Society of Japan, as one of her 50th anniversary events, and was held in cooperation with the International