Each year, the Editor-in-Chief and Regional Editors of the International Journal of Refrigeration select two articles of special merit, to be awarded prizes as Best Paper and Very Highly Commended Paper. The awards are sponsored by Elsevier, with prizes of USD1,500 and USD750. Papers are freely available untill 31 December 2012. To access them, go to: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-refrigeration/latest-news/best-paper-and-very-highly-commended-papers-for-20112012/

Best Paper:
Modeling non-uniform frost growth on a fin-and-tube heat exchanger. Int. J. Refrigeration, vol. 34 (2011), 2018-2030 S.K. Padhmanabhan, D.E. Fisher, L. Cremaschi and E. Moallem

Very Highly Commended Paper:
Part 1 : Experimental results for pool boiling, onset-of-dryout and falling film evaporation, Part 2 : Prediction methods and visualization. Int. J. Refrigeration, vol. 35 (2012), 300-324 M. Christians and J.R. Thome