Abstract: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-discrete element method (DEM) simulations are designed to model a pseudo-two-dimensional (2D) fluidized bed, in which bed thickness is minimal compared to height and length. Predicted bed ...

Abstract: An experimental study of bubble growth from submerged orifice plates in pools of water is carried out to scale and correlate the effects of surface wettability and orifice diameter D0 on ebullience. Measurements of bubble ...

Abstract: To predict liquid–gas two-phase flow, accurate tracking of the evolving liquid–gas interface is required. Volume-of-fluid (VoF) method has been used for computationally modeling such flows where a single set of governing ...

Abstract: Performance of a novel ultracompact thermal energy storage (TES) heat exchanger, designed as a microchannel finned-tube exchanger is presented. With water as the heating–cooling fluid in the microchannels, a salt hydrate ...

Abstract: New generalized correlations for predicting the average fanning friction factor f and average Nusselt number Nu for laminar flow in plain plate-fin compact cores of rectangular cross section are presented. These are based ...

Abstract: The characterization and scaling of the thermal-hydraulic performance in wavy plate-fin compact heat exchanger cores, based on the understanding of the physical phenomena and heat transfer enhancement mechanism is delineated. ...

Abstract: Forced convective enhanced heat transfer performance of airflows (50 ≤ Re ≤ 4000, Pr ∼ 0.71) in novel slotted sinusoidal wavy-plate-fins is investigated both experimentally and computationally. The slotted wavy fin core ...

Abstract: The influence of wall-corrugation-induced swirl flow on enhanced forced convection in wavy-plate-fin cores has been investigated. Three-dimensional computational simulations were carried out for steady-state periodically ...