In this paper the heat transfer characteristics of a two-phase closed thermosyphon over a wide range of heat transfer rates, system pressure, aspect ratios and filling ratios were studied. The experiments focused on the boiling and condensation heat transfer characteristics of a thermosyphon with a copper tube having 25 and 32 mm inside and outside diameters. Distilled water was used as the wor...

In this paper the heat transfer characteristics of a two-phase closed thermosyphon over a wide range of heat transfer rates, system pressure, aspect ratios and filling ratios were studied. The experiments focused on the boiling and condensation heat transfer characteristics of the thermosyphon. The experimental boiling and condensation heat transfer coefficients inside the thermosyphon were com...

Drying represents one of the oldest unit operations employed in industrial processes. Drying is viewed as a process of simultaneous heat and mass transfer. Porous Clay-like material undergoes stresses due to non-uniform distribution of temperature and moisture induced by heat and mass transfer respectively. The aim of this work is to simulate the stresses induced by heat and mass transfer durin...

This paper is the second of a two-part study concerning two-phase flow and heat transfer characteristics of R134a in a micro-channel heat sink incorporated as an evaporator in a refrigeration cycle. Boiling heat transfer coefficients were measured by controlling heat flux (q00 = 15.9 93.8W/cm) and vapor quality (xe = 0.26 0.87) over a broad range of mass velocity. While prior studies point to e...

A conjugate heat transfer investigation was conducted to better understand the effects of an impinging radial slot jet cooling device on both the heat transfer rates and temperature fields in the fluid, and especially in the cylindrical solid cooled by this device. Such temperature nonuniformities in the solid are of practical interest as they may result in phenomena such as nonuniform material...

An analysis of mixed convective MHD visco-elastic flow with heat and mass transfer from a vertical plate in presence of ohmic heating and viscous dissipation has been presented. The governing equations of the momentum, thermal and concentration fields are solved by perturbation technique. Expressions for velocity, temperature, concentration profiles and non-dimensional skin-friction coefficient...

The attention of the present paper is focused on the intensive heat removal with arrays of impinging jets. Three jet configurations are tested which involve variation of geometric parameters such as nozzle shape, diameter and nozzle-tonozzle spacing and impingement distance and of flow rate. The convective heat transfer coefficient is measured with infrared thermography applied to the heatedthi...

In the present study, the conjugate turbulent free convection with the thermal surface radiation in a rectangular enclosure bounded by walls with different thermophysical characteristics in the presence of a local heater is numerically studied. The effects of surface emissivity and wall materials on the air flow and the heat transfer characteristics are the main focus of the present investigati...

Flow boiling in microchannels and minichannels is being investigated for its potential for high heat flux removal in electronics and other devices. The small channel dimensions characteristic of these channels result, under most circumstances, in laminar flow at the flow rates used in these applications. The present work investigates the applicability of the correlation developed by Kandlikar a...