Cooling Augmentation with Microchanneled Structures

Experiments were conducted to investigate the heat transfer characteristics and cooling performance of subcooled liquid, water, flowing through rectangular cross-section microchanneled structures machined on a stainless steel plate. Heat transfer or flow mode transition was observed when the heating rate or wall temperature was increased. This transition was found to be suggestively induced by the variation in liquid thermophysical properties due to the significant rise of liquid temperature in the microstructures. The influence of such parameters as liquid velocity, subcooling, property variation, and microchannel geometric configuration on the heat transfer behavior, cooling performance and the heat transfer and liquid flow mode transition were also investigated. The experiments indicated that both slngle-phase forced convection and flow boiling characteristics were quite different from those in normal-sized tubes and the heat transfer was obviously intensified.     

VLES Modelling with the Renormalization Group

In a Very-Large-Eddy Simulation (VLES), the filterwidth-wavenumber can be outside the inertial range, and simple subgrid models have to be replaced by more complicated ('RANS-like') models which can describe the transport of the biggest eddies. One could approach this by using a RANS model in these regions, and modify the lengthscale in the model for the LES-regions[1-3]. The problem with these approaches is that these models are specifically calibrated for RANS computations, and therefore not suitable to describe inertial range quantities. We investigated the construction of subgrid viscosity and transport equations without any calibrated constants, but these are calculated directly form the Navier-Stokes equation by means of a Renormalization Group (RG) procedure. This leads to filterwidth dependent transport equations and effective viscosity with the right limiting behaviour (DNS and RANS limits).     

Sam＇s Choice： building a cabin with iron or a castle with sand？

The road of economic recovery in America has been a long and bumpy one. Yet all the economic indicators have been pointing at the improving and healthy conditions the state of the economy has, for already quite some time. And many are predicting economic growth to gather more steam in the second semester, with more job creation and sounder finances.     

On Problems with Downscaling in Internal Flows

Problems that may accompany downscaling in internal flows are discussed. Non-dimensional similarity parameters (like Re, M, etc.) depend on parameters that scale down fully (e.g., length), or that are specified by design (velocities, cascade geometry), or that are scale invariant (like thermophysical and transport properties of fluids).This fact has to be taken into acount in the similarity considerations. With decreasing Reynolds number the surface forces become of growing importance, however, if not going down directly to microflows the main problems are connected with the three-dimensional flow structure affecting the skin friction , and with the fact that some of the flow phenomena (e.g. vortical structures) cannot fully develop .     

Streamwise Vortex Interaction with a Horseshoe Vortex

How control in turbomachinery is very difficult because of the complexity of its fully 3-D flow structure. The authors propose to introduce streamwise vortices into the control of internal flows. A simple configuration of vortices was investigated in order to better understand the flow control methods by means of streamwise vortices. The research presented here concerns streamwise vortex interaction with a horseshoe vortex. The effects of such an interaction are significantly dependent on the relative location of the streamwise vortex in respect to the leading edge of the profile. The streamwise vortex is induced by an air jet. The horseshoe vortex is generated by the leading edge of a symmetric profile. Such a configuration gives possibility to investigate the interaction of these two vortices alone. The presented analysis is based on numerical simulations by means of N-S compressible solver with a two-equation turbulence model.     

Cycle-by-cycle variations in a spark ignition engine fueled with natural gas–hydrogen blends combined with EGR

Study of cycle-by-cycle variations in a spark ignition engine fueled with natural gas–hydrogen blends combined with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) was conducted. The effects of EGR ratio and hydrogen fraction on engine cycle-by-cycle variations are analyzed. The results show that the cylinder peak pressure, the maximum rate of pressure rise and the indicated mean effective pressure decrease and cycle-by-cycle variations increase with the increase of EGR ratio. Interdependency between the above parameters and their corresponding crank angles of cylinder peak pressure is decreased with the increase of EGR ratio. For a given EGR ratio, combustion stability is promoted and cycle-by-cycle variations are decreased with the increase of hydrogen fraction in the fuel blends. Non-linear relationship is presented between the indicated mean effective pressure and EGR ratio. Slight influence of EGR ratio on indicated mean effective pressure is observed at low EGR ratios while large influence of EGR ratio on indicated mean effective pressure is demonstrated at high EGR ratios. The high test engine speed has lower cycle-by-cycle variations due to the enhancement of air flow turbulence and swirls in the cylinder. Increasing hydrogen fraction can maintain low cycle-by-cycle variations at high EGR ratios.     

Numerical Methods for Inverse Problem of Heat Conduction with Unknown Boundary Based on Variational Principles with Variable Domain

In this article a variable-domain variational approach to the entitled problem is presented.A pair of comple-mentary variational principles with a variable domain in terms of temperature and heat-streamfunction are firstestablished.Based on them,two methods of solution—generalized Ritz method and variable-domain FEM—both capable of handling problems with unknown boundaries,are suggested.Then,three sample numericalexamples have been tested.The computational process is quite stable,and the results are encouraging.Thisvariational approach can be extended straightforwardly to 3-D inverse problems as well as to other problems inmathematical physics.     

Numerical Simulation of Natural Convection in Circular Enclosures with Inner Polygonal Cylinders,with Confirmation by Experimental Results

Numerical computations are performed for the natural convection in circular enclosures with inner polygonalcylinders.The polygon surface and the outer envelope are at constant but different temperatures,A body-fittedcoordinate system is used,The coordinate system is generated via simple algebraic equations.The transformedgoverning equations are discretized on a control volume basis with power-law finite difference scheme.TheSIMPLE-like algorithm is used to deal with the linkage between pressure and velocities.The numerical resultsare compared with the experimental data available in the literature,and the agreement between the numericaland experimental results are very good.     

Experimental study on combustion characteristics of a spark-ignition engine fueled with natural gas–hydrogen blends combining with EGR

An experimental study on the effect of hydrogen fraction and EGR rate on the combustion characteristics of a spark-ignition engine fueled with natural gas–hydrogen blends was investigated. The results show that flame development duration, rapid combustion duration and total combustion duration are increased with the increase of EGR rate and decreased with the increase of hydrogen fraction in the blends. Hydrogen addition shows larger influence on flame development duration than that on rapid combustion duration. The coefficient of variation of the indicated mean effective pressure increases with the increase of EGR rate. And hydrogen addition into natural gas decreases the coefficient of variation of the indicated mean effective pressure, and this effectiveness becomes more obviously at high EGR rate. Engine fueled with natural gas–hydrogen blends combining with proper EGR rate can realize the stable low temperature combustion in gas engine.     

Measurement of Thermal Expansion Coefficients with Holographic Technique

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Structure of Channel Flows with Surface Mounted Ribs

The flow inside a channel with surface mounted ribs is studied by numerical simulation and experimental flow visualization. Both the geometry with one rib and the geometry with two ribs, placed perpendicular to the flow, are studied, with particular emphasis on the effect of the variation of the distance between the ribs on the structure of the flow. Results show that, for Reynolds number flows of 400 and 1000 (based on the uniform incoming velocity and the height of the ribs), the flow reattaches between the ribs when they are separated by distances of 12h (h being the height of the ribs) and 6h, respectively. In this respect, however, the numerical results for the Reynolds number flow of 1000 are in contradiction with published results.     

Lead cathodes functionalized with magnetite particles with enhanced electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution reaction in sulfuric acid solutions

The generation of molecular hydrogen through the electrochemical water splitting process has been extensively studied, due to the potential application of hydrogen to produce green energy with fuel cells. Researchers have been focused in the synthesis of electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution. The accumulative roll bonding (ARB) is a promising method which can process a large quantity of an electrode for industrial demand. In this research the ARB process is employed to synthesize lead base electrodes functionalized with magnetite particles (Fe₃O₄) to evaluate their electrocatalytic properties on the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in sulfuric acid solutions. SEM, EDS and FESEM techniques are used to characterize the functionalized lead cathodes. The effect of rolling passes, magnetite concentration, and suspended magnetite particles on the HER kinetics is studied using linear voltammetry, Tafel plots, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results revealed that lead cathodes functionalized with magnetite present great advantages over lead cathodes, such as: a decrease of 0.37 V in HER over-potential, an increase of 84.3 times in the exchange current density, a decrease in the charge transfer resistance of 98%. From a mechanistic viewpoint, HER is catalyzed by the presence of Fe²⁺ adsorbed on the lead cathode; ferrous ions are produced from the reductive dissolution of magnetite particles. Long-term electrolysis and multiple cyclic voltammetry tests (800 polarization cycles) revealed that the catalytic effect is maintained during 44 h of operation. According to the Tafel curves and EIS results, the Volmer reaction is the rate determining step of the HER on these functionalized cathodes.     

Study of a SOFC with a bimetallic Cu–Co–ceria anode directly fuelled with simulated biogas mixtures

The present work is focused in the study of the bimetallic Cu–Co formulation combined with CeO₂ as SOFC anode, at 750 °C, direct feed of methane and two different fuel mixtures that simulate biogas. Additionally, the sulphur tolerance of new anode material has been evaluated. Its single cell evaluation, based on a samaria doped ceria (SDC) solid electrolyte and a LSM perovskite cathode, together with the electrochemical characterisation and catalytic activity tests, have allowed to demonstrate the ability of this material to operate directly with simulated biogas mixtures without loss of single cell performance due to the formation of carbon deposits or sulphur anode poisoning. The activity of this material for the exothermic oxidation of methane reduces the energy requirement of the endothermic internal methane reforming process. The cobalt doping of basic copper–ceria formulation enhanced sulphur and carbon coking tolerance of the SOFC anode material.     

Thermal convection with the Cattaneo–Christov model

We consider the problem of thermal convection in a horizontal layer of incompressible Newtonian fluid with gravity acting downward. The constitutive equation for the heat flux is taken to be one of Cattaneo type. Since we are considering a fluid one has to be careful with the choice of objective derivative for the rate of change of the heat flux. Here we employ a recent model due to Professor C. Christov. The thermal relaxation effect is found to be significant if the Cattaneo number is sufficiently large, and the convection mechanism switches from stationary convection to oscillatory convection with narrower cells.     

Detonation Propagation in Narrow Gaps with Various Configurations

In general all detonation waves have cellular structure formed by the trajectory of the triple points.This paperaims to investigate experimentally the propagation of detonation in narrow gaps for hydrogen-oxygen-argonmixtures in terms of various gap heights and gap widths.The gap of total length 1500 mm was constructed bythree pair of stainless plates,each of them was 500 mm in length,which were inserted in a detonation tube.Thegap heights were varied from 1.2 mm to 3.0 mm while the gap widths were varied from 10 mm to 40 mm.Variousargon dilution rates were tested in the present experiments to change the size of cellular structure.Attempts havebeen made by means of reaction front velocity,shock front velocity,and smoked foil to record variations of cel-lular structure inside the gaps.A combination probe composed of a pressure and an ion probe detected the arrivalof the shock and the reaction front individually at one measurement point.Experimental results show that thenumber of the triple points contained in detonation front decreases with decrease in the gap heights and gapwidths,which lead to larger cellular structures.For mixtures with low detonability,cell size is affected by a cer-tain gap width although conversely cell size is almost independent of gap width.From the present result it wasfound that detonation propagation inside the gaps is strongly governed by the gap height and effects of gap widthis dependent on detonability of mixtures.     

Experimental investigation on performance and emissions of a spark-ignition engine fuelled with natural gas–hydrogen blends combined with EGR

An experimental investigation on the influence of different hydrogen fractions and EGR rates on the performance and emissions of a spark-ignition engine was conducted. The results show that large EGR introduction decreases the engine power output. However, hydrogen addition can increase the power output at large EGR operation. Effective thermal efficiency shows an increasing trend at small EGR rate and a decreasing trend with further increase of EGR rate. In the case of small EGR rate, effective thermal efficiency is decreased with the increase of hydrogen fraction; while in the case of large EGR rate, thermal efficiency is increased with increasing of hydrogen fraction. For a specified hydrogen fraction, NO_x concentration is decreased with the increase of EGR rate and this effectiveness becomes more obviously at high hydrogen fraction. HC emission is increased with the increase of EGR rate and it decreases with the increase of hydrogen fraction. CO and CO₂ emissions show little variations with EGR rate, but they decrease with the increase of hydrogen fraction. The study shows that natural gas–hydrogen blend combining with EGR can realize high-efficiency and low-emission spark-ignition engine.     

Control of Collection Efficiency for Axial Flow Cyclone Dust Collectors with Fixed Guide Vanes and with Funnel Shaped Exit Pipes

The experimental result of the collection efficiency of the axial flow cyclone with the fixed guide vanes is lowerthan that with the tangential inlet pipe to the cyclone body due to the weak angular momentum transfer given byflowing through the guide vanes.However,one of the interesting points is the control of the collection efficiencydepended on the funnel shaped exit pipes.The collection efficiencies for these funnel shaped exit pipes aredepended on the Froude number.Then,in this paper,the experimental results of the pressure drop and also thecollection efficiency using the fly-ash particles and also the comparison of the calculated results of the collectionefficiency with the experimental results are described in detail.     

Entropy generation in a hollow cylinder with temperature dependent thermal conductivity and internal heat generation with convective–radiative surface cooling

This article investigates entropy generation in an asymmetrically cooled hollow cylinder with temperature dependent thermal conductivity and internal heat generation. The inside surface of the cylinder is cooled by convection on its inside surface while the outside surface experiences simultaneous convective–radiative cooling. The thermal conductivity of the cylinder as well as the internal heat generation within the cylinder are linear functions of temperature, introducing two nonlinearities in the one-dimensional steady state heat conduction equation. A third nonlinearity arises due to radiative heat loss from the outside surface of the cylinder. The nonlinear system is solved analytically using the differential transformation method (DTM) to obtain the temperature distribution which is then used to compute local and total entropy generation rates in the cylinder. The accuracy of DTM is verified by comparing its predictions with the analytical solution for the case of constant thermal conductivity and constant internal heat generation. The local and total entropy generations depend on six dimensionless parameters: heat generation parameter Q, thermal conductivity parameter β, conduction–convection parameters Nc₁ and Nc₂, conduction–radiation parameter Nr, convection sink temperature δ and radiation sink temperature η.     

Three Dimensional Transient Coupled Radiative—Conductive Heat Transfer in Cylinders Filled with Semi—Transparent Media with Complicated Surface Characteristics

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Calculation of NARM''''s Equilibrium with Peng-Robinson Equation of State

IntroductionThere are mainly tWo well-known methods for thecalculation of fluid Phase equilibriUm, the method ofusing equation of state (EOS) or achvity coeffident.The later needs a plenty Of vapor-liquid equilibriumexperimental data in Order tO regress the calculatingmodel's parameters (such as non-random tWo liquidequation, (NRTL) etc). All means to describethermodynndc prOPelties are theoretically fonddedwith the equation Of state. If the EOS is suitable for theentire thermodyntalc …