...Achraf Nedjar; Abla Chaker; Rafik Absi; Yousra Lahmer; Rachid Bennacer This work presents a numerical study on the performance of a stand-alone adsorption cooling system based on the silica gel/water couple driven by hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) collectors. This system is intended...

...Lei Guo; Jing Hu To solve the problem of heat reflow in the fan rotation center of the forced convection cooling system in the engine compartment, this study established a calculation model of the external flow field of the engine compartment’s cooling module. It then used the CFD numerical...

...Badia Rtimi; Ali Benhmidene; Bechir Chaouachi The efficiency of solar panels decreases gradually with the increase of solar cell temperature. To solve the problem, various researches have been carried out. This article studies the effect of using a cooling system on the useful energy...

... attached to the outer surface. For larger motors with frames incorporating cooling ribs, they could be installed between the cores and the frames. The experimental results found that the application of TEC reduces the winding temperatures by 25.4%. Ability to incorporate this technology allows...

...Hamza Faraji; Mustapha El Alami; Adeel Arshad; Yassine Hariti This paper reports on numerical simulations of passive cooling of an electronic component. The strategy is based on the fusion of a nano-enhanced phase change material (NePCM) by insertion of hybrid Cu-Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles. This study...

... during the continuous cooling of the steel using the inverse heat transfer model for predefined cooling paths. Further, the phase transformation models are used to predict the final microstructure of the steel plate. The cooling rate, plate thickness, and rolling speed are varied to evaluate...

...Mustapha Faraji; El Mehdi Berra This paper reported the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of natural convection flow of Cu/water nanofluid in a square enclosure using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The cavity is heated from below by heat source and cooled by the top wall...

... a design free of moving parts. Extending the authors’ previous work, the engine performance is computed for several fuel/oxidizer combinations. A large-scope study of the heat transfer throughout the regenerative cooling engine cycle examines the effects of combustion chamber pressure and engine size...

...Rakesh Kumar; Niranjan Sahoo; Vinayak Kulkarni; Anugrah Singh Surface temperature history and determination of convective heating rate are the important activity in many research programs for devising an effective cooling system in internal combustion engines or for typical high speed aerodynamic...

... solution to this is using on-chip cooling with a single-phase or evaporating liquid to replace energy intensive air-cooling. The energy carried away by the liquid or vapor can also potentially be used in district heating, as an example. Thus, the important issue here is “what is the most energy efficient...

...Sung In Kim; Ibrahim Hassan In hypersonic flight, the prediction of aerodynamic heating and the construction of a proper thermal protection system (TPS) are significantly important. In this study, the method of a film cooling technique, which is already the state of the art in cooling of gas...

...Cuong Q. Nguyen; Perry L. Johnson; Bryan C. Bernier; Son H. Ho; Jayanta S. Kapat Data from conical-shaped film cooling holes are extremely sparse in open literature, especially the cooling uniformity characteristic, an important criterion for evaluating any film cooling design. The authors...

... the detection of the plaque via mapping skin temperature. To test this strategy, a far-infrared imaging system was applied to record the dynamic thermal pictures on the cervicum of two human subjects, and the intentional cooling by the alcohol was proposed to improve detection. The thermograph reveals...

..., several advanced technologies are compared, demonstrating that liquid cooling using microchannels can be in excess of 1000 times more effective than air cooling methods. Figure 5 displays the volumetric enhancement factor for the series of thermal management methods over a range of power outputs...

.... This paper focuses on the experimental measurements of heat transfer under cooling conditions, as well as pressure drop characteristics within a prototypic printed circuit heat exchanger. Studies utilize type-316 stainless steel, nine channel, semi-circular test section, and supercritical carbon dioxide...

...Fatemeh Esfandiari Nia; Patrick E. Phelan; Dolf van Paassen Desiccant cooling systems, considered one of the sustainable air conditioning technologies, have been attractive for researchers to be studied for many years. In this paper, the modeling and simulation of a packed tower liquid dehumidifier...

...Hemin Hu; Jiahui Zhang; Xiaoze Du; Lijun Yang Liquid-cooled heat sink (cold plate) used for power electronics cooling is numerically studied. Thermal performance and hydraulic resistance are analyzed, with emphasis on geometric construction of cooling channels. Two heat transfer enhancing channel...

... boiling heat transfer were analyzed. The results showed that the coolant filling volume has negligible effect on cooling performance. On the other hand, the thermosyphon performance is significantly affected by the coolant properties and the configuration of the porous graphite foam. A comparison...

... and the transportation media in the secondary loop, which is responsible for distributing the cooling power. In the present study, the experimental investigations of the forced flow and heat transfer characteristics of tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) clathrate hydrate slurry (CHS) in both the plate heat exchanger (PHE...

... applications. 08 04 2010 24 01 2011 10 03 2011 10 03 2011 computational fluid dynamics cooling heat pipes power electronics power engineering computing power transformers system recovery thermal management (packaging) The intelligent universal transformer (IUT...