In order to improve the efficiency and rate of heat transfer in heat exchangers, various techniques such as increasing the heat transfer coefficient are proposed. This study is devoted to the investigation of heat transfer coefficient variations due to the addition of CuO, TiO2 and CuO/TiO2 nanoparticles into a shell and tube heat exchanger. CuO/TiO2 nanocomposite was synthesized using mechanic...

In the present work melting with thermal dispersion and radiation on non-Darcy, mixed convective heat transfer from an infinite vertical plate embedded in a saturated porous medium is studied. Both aiding and opposing flows are examined. Forchheimer extension for the flow equations in steady state is considered Similarity solution for the governing equations is obtained .The equations are numer...

This paper presents an improved method for simulating melting of ice. The melting process is implemented as a result of the heat transfer between ice objects and fluids (water and air). Both the solids and the fluids, including air, are modeled as a set of particles with specified temperatures, which can vary locally during simulation. The proposed new particle-based air model allows one to con...

in order to examine the laminar convective heat transfer of nanofluid, experiments carried out using silver-oil nanofluid in a concentric annulus with outer constant heat flux as boundary condition. silver-oil nanofluid prepared by electrical explosion of wire technique and observed no nanoparticles agglomeration during nanofluid preparation process and carried out experiments. the average size...

Short pulse laser melting and resolidification of a metal target are investigated in continuum and atomistic computer simulations. The cooling rates achievable in laser quenching are calculated within the framework of two-temperature model for a range of laser fluences and pulse durations. A well-defined maximum in the cooling rate dependence on the pulse duration and fluence is observed and ex...

We develop a lattice Boltzmann method to couple thermal convection and pure-substance melting. The transition from conduction-dominated heat transfer to fully-developed convection is analyzed and scaling laws and previous numerical results are reproduced by our numerical method. We also investigate the limit in which thermal inertia (high Stefan number) cannot be neglected. We use our results t...

The development of a numerical model for the melting process of Al-Ti alloy target material in vacuum induction furnace with cold crucible (VIFCC) was described. It is a two-dimensional computational methodology to calculate electromagnetic field, heat transfer field and fluid flow field . Based on the aid of the finite element method with the commercial software—ANSYS, a superimposition method...

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) offers great potential for future manufacturing technology. In order to extend its applicability for the processing of high melting materials like molybdenum fundamental process understanding is required. This can be obtained by multi-physical simulations that allow a look into the process. In this contribution a thermofluiddynamical simulation model for laser beam...

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...