0017-9310/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.09.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: JEC 2049 2nd Institute, 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180, United States. +1 518 276 6025. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.K. Jensen). Condensation heat transfer coefficients in mini-channels were measured with smaller measurement uncertainties than previously obtained usi...

Evaporative heat transfer coefficients of R~22 and R-407C (R-32/125/134a, 23/25/52 wt%) in a horizontal smooth tube have been measured. Heat was transferred to theJefrigerant at the test section by applying electric current directly to the stainless steel tube. Saturation temperature of refrigerant was calculated from the measured pressure. The inner wall temperatures were calculated by one dim...

An analytical study was performed to study effects of thermo-diffusion and chemical reactions on a three-dimensional MHD mixed convective flow of dissipative fluid along an infinite vertical porous plate with transverse sinusoidal suction velocity. The parabolic partial differential equations governing the fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer were solved using perturbation technique and...

BACKGROUND Treatment modalities of renal replacement therapy differ in their diffusive and convective mass transfer characteristics. It was the goal of this study to clarify whether an increase in convective mass transfer as performed with haemofiltration (HF) and haemodiafiltration (HDF) in comparison with high-flux haemodialysis (HD) is associated with an alteration in procoagulatory activity...

The fundamental phenomenological equations of radiative transfer, e.g., Lambert's cosine rule and the radiant transport equation, are derived from an analysis based on the Cauchy flux theory of continuum mechanics. For the classical case, where the radiance is distributed regularly over the unit sphere, it is shown that Lambert's rule follows from a balance law for the transfer of radiative pow...

  In this paper the numerical analysis of flow and time dependent heat transfer of micro-tube conveying nanofluid in laminar flow is investigated. In this study, convection heat transfer of nanofluid and base fluid and transient analysis for time-varying heat flux for time step of 0.0001 second are elucidated. It is observed that the pumping power of nanofluid flowing and the maximum temperatur...

Experiments were performed to assess the heat transfer enhancement benefits of coating the bottomwall of a shallow rectangular micro-channel with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Using water as working fluid, tests were performed with a bare copper surface and three separate, yet identical CNT-coated surfaces. Each of the CNT-coated surfaces was tested repeatedly at the same mass velocity to explore an...

In this study, three-dimensional simulations are presented for laminar forced convection flow of a radiating gas over a backward-facing step in rectangular duct. The fluid is treated as a gray, absorbing, emitting and scattering medium. The three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system is used to solve the governing equations which are conservations of mass, momentum and energy. These equations...

An experimental investigation was conducted to study the average and the fully-developed heat (mass) transfer coefficients in a rectangular smooth duct and a duct with repeated-baffle blockages. The focus of attention in this work is the conventional correlation Nu / Nufd 1 + C / ( X / D ) for the average heat transfer coefficient. It was shown that for relatively short ducts, the coefficient C...

In this study, condensation heat transfer experiments were conducted with two types of plate and shell heat exchangers (P&SHE) using R-134A. An experimental refrigerant loop has been established to measure the condensation heat transfer coefficient of R-134A in a vertical P&SHE. Two vertical counter flow channels were formed in the P&SHE by stacking three plates of geometry with a corrugated tr...