In this paper, mini-channel type evaporator which is new in mobile air conditioning (MAC) or automotive air conditioning (AAC) systems is thermally modeled. The performance of mini-channel evaporator is also compared with the laminated evaporator which is being currently used in automotive industries. The mini-channel evaporator was constructed of two rows of parallel flow mini-channel tubes...

in this paper, collapse behavior of simple and reinforced thin-walled channel- section beams, subjected to three- point bending, is investigated. many simple channel- section beams of different geometry and some reinforced ones were tested, and their strengths after collapse were obtained thoroughly. since the available theories in this area are complicated and little attention has been paid to...

in this article, stress analysis and energy estimation during cold-roll forming of symmetrical channel sections have been discussed. geometry of sheet strip is pre-estimated by a shape function. then longitudinal, transversal and shear strains have been calculated. using both the levy-mises and the prandtl reuss equations, and also considering the bauschinger effect, stress distributions have b...

to simulate a new economical architecture for pem fuel cell and investigate the effectiveness of the introduced structure on the performance, computational fluid dynamics (cfd) code is used to solve the equations for a single domain of the cell namely: the flow field, the mass conservation, the energy conservation, the species transport, and the electric/ionic fields under the assumptions of st...

In this paper, the heat transfer to the fluid, passing through the double forward facing step (FFS) channel with square obstacle is enhanced by Taguchi’s S/N ratio analysis. Flow through the forward facing step channel has a wide range of applications in thermal systems due to its flow separation and subsequent reattachment, which in turn enhances the heat transfer. Flow separation and reattach...

in this paper, the flow of couple stress fluid is investigated in a helical screw rheometer (hsr). by unwrapping the channel, lands, and the outside rotating barrel, the geometry of hsr is approximated as a shallow infinite channel. both one- and two-dimensional analysis of the problem is presented using rectangular coordinates. in either case an exact solution of the flow problem is presented ...