The present article focuses on the evaluation of a first-moment closure model applicable to film cooling flow and heat transfer computations. The present first-moment closure model consists of a higher level of turbulent heat flux modeling in which two additional transport equations for temperature variance kθ and its dissipation rate εθ are ...

Heat transfer characteristics of water flow boiling in a minichannel were investigated through the direct measurement local heat flux using fabricated MEMS sensor with multi-layered structure. Local temperatures and fluxes measured at sampling frequency 10 kHz synchronism high-speed visualization behavior. The results revealed fundamental processes, including thin liquid film evaporation, dry-o...

The effect of partial slip and temperature dependent fluid properties on the MHD mixed convection flow from a heated, non-linearly stretching surface in the presence of radiation and non-uniform internal heat generation/absorption is investigated. The velocity of the stretching surface was assumed to vary according to power-law form. Thermal transport is analyzed for two types of non-isothermal...

Experimental study of natural convection heat transfer inside smooth and rough surfaces of vertical and inclined equilateral triangular channels of different inclination angles with a uniformly heated surface are performed. The inclination angle is changed from 15o to 90o. Smooth and rough surface of average roughness (0.02mm) are used and their effect on the heat transfer characteristics are s...

We study the dependence of the heat transfer between two semi-infinite solids on the dielectric properties of the bodies. We show that the heat transfer at short separation between the solids may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsor-bates, or can support low-frequency surface plasmons. In this case the heat transfer is determined by resonant photon tunnelin...

the vehicle braking system is considered to be one of the most fundamental safety-critical systems in modern vehicles, as its main purpose is to stop or decelerate the vehicle. the frictional heat generated during braking application can cause numerous negative effects on the brake assembly, such as brake fade, premature wear, thermal cracks and disc thickness variation. in the past, surface ro...

The effects of radiation on natural convection flow around a sphere with uniform surface heat flux have been investigated in this paper. We have considered here a sphere with uniform surface heat flux immersed in a viscous incompressible optically thick fluid. The governing equations are first transformed into non-dimensional form and the resulting nonlinear systems of partial differential equa...

The aim of this paper is to enhance thermal performance of a microchannel heat sink by using nanoencapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) slurry as a cooling fluid instead of pure fluid. A threedimensional model of a circular channel using water slurry of NEPCM was developed. The results show a significant reduction in the mean fluid temperature along the channel and heat sink wall temperatu...

The transient thermal response of a packed bed is investigated analytically. A local thermal nonequilibrium model is used to represent the energy transport within the porous medium. The heat flux bifurcation phenomenon in porous media is investigated for temporal conditions and two primary types of heat flux bifurcations in porous media are established. Exact solutions are derived for both the ...