Abstract: A mechanistic model was developed for the thermal-hydraulic processes in the spout flash evaporator of an OC-OTEC plant. Nonequilibrium, two-fluid, conservation equations were solved for the ...

Abstract: The laminar pulsating flow through porous media was numerically studied. Two-dimensional flows in systems composed of a number of unit cells of generic porous structures were simulated using a ...

Abstract: Analyses are presented for the performance of direct contact jet and spray condensers in the presence of noncondensables. A solution procedure is developed which obtains analytically the liquid-side ...

Abstract: Gas desorption from warm and cold seawater under open-cycle ocean thermal energy conversion (OC-OTEC) conditions is addressed in this paper. The desorption process of dissolved O2 , N2 , and ...

Abstract: A quasi-steady, two-dimensional thermal hydraulic analysis of the two-phase region formed ahead of a quench front during reflooding of a slab or cylindrical core is carried out, and the results ...