Xin Liu Carlyle Compressor Division Carrier Corporation 6500 Chrysler Drive syracuse, NY 13221 Many researchers have believed and claimed that the application of non-azeotropic refrigerants would increase air conditioning or heat pump cycle efficiency. Some of them have carried out experiments in order to confirm their belief, and especially to provide an approach to air conditioner or heat pum...

Nowadays, microchannels as closed circuits channels for fluid flow and heat removal are an integral part of the silicon-based electronic microsystems. Most of previous numerical studies on microchannel heat sinks (MCHS) have been performed for a two-dimensional domain using constant properties of the working fluid. In this study, laminar fluid flow and heat transfer of variable properties Al2O3...

Steady heat transfer through a pin fin is studied. Thermal conductivity, heat transfer coefficient, and the source or sink term are assumed to be temperature dependent. In the model considered, the source or sink term is given as an arbitrary function. We employ symmetry techniques to determine forms of the source or sink term for which the extra Lie point symmetries are admitted. Method of sep...