in this paper, the effects of baffle on thermal characteristics of combined convection-radiation heat transfer in laminar flow adjacent to an inclined backward facing step (bfs) in a horizontal duct are investigated. a baffle is mounted on the top wall of channel downstream side of step. in this study, the fluid is treated as a gray, absorbing, emitting and scattering medium; therefore, in the ...

Gas fluidization is widely used in industries and has been extensively studied either experimentally or mathematically. Recently, the coupled approach of discrete particle simulation (DPS) for solid phase and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for gas phase has been proposed to study the heat transfer in fluidized beds at a particle level. The approach offers a convenient way to study the effec...

The convective-diffusion equation is the governing equation of many important transport phenomena in building physics. The paper deals in its first part with the general formulation of the convective-diffusion equation and with the numerical solution of this equation by means of the finite element method. The second part of the paper contains the analysis of one typical combined transport probl...

Research in convective heat transfer using suspensions of nanometer-sized solid particles in base liquids started only over the past decade. Recent investigations on nanofluid, as such suspensions are often called, indicate that the suspended nanoparticles remarkably change the transport properties and heat transfer characteristics of the suspension. Bending walls can also improve heat transfer...

While shape memory alloys (SMAs) have many actuation benefits, their frequencies are commonly restricted by slow cooling times caused by limitations in convective heat transfer. To increase the cooling speed and at the same time reduce excess power consumption from overheating, it is critical to understand the heat transfer from SMA wires. This requires accurate surface temperature measurement ...

This study numerically investigates heat transfer augmentation using water-based Al₂O₃ and CuO nanofluids flowing in a triangular cross-sectional duct under constant heat flux in laminar flow conditions. The Al₂O₃/water nanofluids with different volume fractions (0.1%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, and 2%) and CuO/water nanofluids with various volume fractions (0.05%, 0.16%, 0.36%, 0.5%, and 0.8%) are employ...

This paper reports an experimental study on nanofluid convective boiling heat transfer in parallel rectangular minichannels of 800 μm hydraulic diameter. Experiments are conducted with pure water and silver nanoparticles suspended in water base fluid. Two small volume fractions of silver nanoparticles suspended in water are tested: 0.000237% and 0.000475%. The experimental results show that the...

This paper examines the method to simulate heat balances on building and urban surfaces by combining the 3D CAD-based thermal environment simulator with 3D steady RANS CFD simulations. The simulation results of the distribution of convective heat transfer coefficient in an urban canyon model are compared with that of a wind tunnel experiment. The effects of building geometries, including verand...

an analysis is carried out to investigate the effects of variable chemical reaction, thermophoresis, temperaturedependent viscosity and thermal radiation on an unsteady mhd free convective heat and mass transfer flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid past an impulsively started infinite inclined porous plate by taking into account the viscous dissipation effects. the g...

Forced convective heat transfer plays a significant role in almost all industrial sectors. Examples include cooling of microelectronics, process intensification in the chemical industry, heat exchange/waste heat recovery in power plants and cooling of car engines, to name but a few. In special, a study of forced convective laminar boundary layer behaviour on a flat plate has attracted the atten...