Browsing ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer by Title
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A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling Approach to the Inverse Heat Conduction Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study introduces a Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling approach to solve inverse heat conduction problems (IHCPs), employing penalized splines within a spatiotemporal forward model. The complexity and ill-posed nature ... -
A Comparative Study of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics in a Pin-Finned Heat Sink at Horizontal/Vertical Upward Flow Orientations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)With the continuous development of power electronic devices toward miniaturization and compactness, it is necessary to develop more efficient flow boiling heat transfer technologies. In this work, the flow boiling heat ... -
A Fully Implicit Enthalpy-Porosity Model for Phase-Change
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This article proposes a new formulation for a phase change model based on the enthalpy-porosity idea. A general one-energy equation model (1EEM) is extended to deal with the melting and solidification of pure substances ... -
A Mini Review of Flexible Heat Spreaders Based on Functionalized Boron Nitride Nanosheets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This review provides a comprehensive overview of the recent progresses in flexible heat spreaders based on functionalized boron nitride nanosheets (f-BNNSs) and provides insights into the potential of this material for ... -
A Model on Bubble Dynamics in Liquid Film Boiling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Liquid film boiling, where bubbles are generated together with evaporation in several hundred micrometers thick liquid film, has attracted great interest recently due to its potential in dissipating high heat flux with low ... -
A Multi-Scale Thermal-Mechanical Numerical Method for Mini-Channel Heat Exchanger Subjected to Fluid Pressure Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study proposes a novel multi-scale numerical method for thermal-mechanical analysis of mini-channel heat exchangers (MCHEs) under internal fluid pressure and temperature loads. The method comprises a macro-scale model ... -
A New Iterative Broyden Legendre Wavelet Galerkin Finite Element Method Applied to Unsteady State Model of Two-Dimensional Elliptic Fin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The novelty of this paper is the investigation of numerical study of a mathematical model, which deals with time-dependent heat flow in elliptic fin (dry, wet, and partially wet). In this paper, we developed a nonlinear ... -
A Novel Fast Wavenumber Selection Scheme for Line-by-Line Monte Carlo Simulations of High-Temperature Gases
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Implementing line-by-line absorption spectra in the Monte Carlo method provides benchmark solutions for radiative heat transfer in participating media. It is, however, a computationally demanding calculation, and therefore ... -
A Novel Nonlinear Calibration Method for Surface Heat Flux Prediction With Unknown Thermal Conductivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Solving inverse heat conduction problems (IHCPs) is a critical challenge in many engineering applications. For typical engineering materials, the temperature dependence of thermophysical properties introduces nonlinearity, ... -
A Numerical Study of Gold-Nanorod-Enhanced Noninvasive Laser Ablation for Central Lung Cancer Using an Optical-Thermal-Fluid Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Central lung cancer presents significant challenges due to its proximity to vital thoracic structures, making traditional treatments often less effective and more harmful. Laser ablation (LA) has emerged as a promising ... -
A Proposed Universal Wall Function for Velocity and Temperature in Turbulent Near-Wall Flows of Low and High Prandtl Number Fluids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Wall functions are often used in practical engineering analysis of turbulent boundary layers to approximate the near-wall mean velocity and temperature distributions and/or provide boundary conditions, by relating flow ... -
A Simplified Thermal Hydraulic Model for Solid Pin-Fueled Molten Salt Reactors Under Low-Flow Accident Scenarios
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactors (FHRs) are an emerging category of next generation reactors. A thermal hydraulic modeling tool that can perform fluid flow and heat transfer analyses in the core region of the ... -
A Step-Wise Method for Measuring Thermophysical Parameters of an Isotropic Material, Considering the Effect of Thermal Contact Resistance and Lateral Convection Losses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This work proposes a model based on the step-wise method to identify conductivity and heat capacity. Contrary to conventional models, this model considers the thermal properties of the heating element, the thermal contact ... -
A Transformative Approach for Breast Cancer Detection Using Physics-Informed Neural Network and Surface Temperature Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Early detection is the most effective defense against breast cancer. Mammography is a well-established X-ray-based technique that is used for annual or biennial screening of women above age of 40. Since the dense breast ... -
A Voyage Intersecting Nano, Heat, and Energy: Professor Gang Chen’s Scientific Contributions
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Aircraft Ducted Heat Exchanger Aerodynamic Shape and Thermal Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Interest in aircraft electrification and hydrogen fuel cells is driving demand for efficient waste heat management systems. Ultimately, most of the heat must be rejected to the freestream air. Ducted heat exchangers, also ... -
Aircraft Electrothermal Pulse Deicing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Ice formation and accumulation on aircraft is a major problem in aviation. Icing is directly responsible for aircraft incidents, limiting the safety of air travel and requiring expensive, and sometimes ineffective deicing ... -
An Exact Solution Based on a Three-Energy Equation Model for Gaseous Transpiration Cooling Through a Bi-Disperse Porous Medium
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)A local thermal nonequilibrium analysis was made to assess the potential use of bi-disperse porous walls for a transpiration cooling system. A three-energy equation model successfully used for the transient thermal analysis ... -
An Experimental Investigation of Sweeping Air/Mist Jet Film Cooling Through a Row of Passive Fluidic Oscillators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Sweeping jet fluidic oscillators can be a promising candidate in film cooling applications since they have a large lateral jet spreading with more uniform cooling, which can be considered an advantage when compared to the ... -
An Experimental Study of Porous Coated Hybrid Elliptical Heating Tubes in Phase Change Heat Transfer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Porous coating over hybrid elliptical heating tubes (HETs) is presented as the state-of-the-art in heat transmission during phase change maintaining its wide-ranging applicability. The saturated nucleate boiling heat ...