ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer: Recent submissions
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Heat and Mass Transfer Study of a High-Pressure Membrane Dehumidifier Under Nonisothermal and Humid Sweep Psychrometric Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)High-pressure membrane dehumidification is of interest for aircraft environmental control system (ECS) applications. Typically, membrane dehumidifier (MD) modules are characterized by manufacturers over a range of mass ... -
Discrete Symmetry Analysis of Free Convection in a Cylindrical Porous Annular Microchannel at Low-Pressure Level
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This article studies the natural convection in an annular porous microchannel in case of one wall being heated and another being cooled. For the first time, such a problem was solved using discrete symmetries of the ... -
Improving Energy Efficiency of a Heat Exchanger Using Recovered Metal Chips During Forced Convection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Among the methods used to enhance heat transfer, the insertion of porous media is prominent. Metallic foam is one of the most commonly used porous media in recent years; however, it presents a disadvantage due to its high ... -
On the Thermal Conductivity Calculation From Pore-Scale Simulations of Porous Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Heat transfer in porous materials is of great importance for various natural, biological, and industrial processes. For the large difference between the microscopic and macroscopic dimensions, the volume averaging method ... -
FC-72 Pool Boiling From Finned Surface Placed in a Narrow Channel: Influence of Displacement of Boiling Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper outlines an experimental investigation into fundamental nucleate boiling phenomena involving finned surfaces within a narrow channel. The study delves into the effects of both channel width (2.0 mm and 0.5 mm) ... -
On Professor Roop Mahajan's 80th Birthday
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Professor Roop L. Mahajan, ASME Fellow and Lewis Hester Chair Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech celebrated his 80th birthday on Mar. 5, 2024. On this wonderful occasion and to honor his remarkable career, his former ... -
Thermal Management and Entropy Minimization of Plain and Modified Shaped Plate Fin Heat Sinks Using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this study, an optimization methodology is followed in order to explore better form of heat sinks which improve thermal performances. Optimum designs of plate fin heat sinks (PFHSs) and modified shaped plate fin heat ... -
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 ... -
Transient Radiation Heat Transfer of Thermally Compact, Lumped Bodies: An Explicit Solution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)An explicit, analytical solution is offered to the problem of transient radiation heat transfer of thermally lumped bodies. This solution is readily implemented as a calculator on a simple spreadsheet software, allowing ... -
Melting Behavior Effect of MXene Nanoenhanced Phase Change Material on Energy and Exergy analysis of Double and Triplex Tube Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The impacts of melting behavior on the thermal performance of triple tube thermal energy storage (TT-TES) and double tube thermal energy storage (DT-TES) systems employing cetyl alcohol and 3% v/v. MXene nano-enhanced PCM ... -
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 ... -
Numerical Investigation of Thermal Performance of Minichannels With Transversely Patterned Nonslip and Superhydrophobic Surfaces in Turbulent Flow Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The study aims at understanding the effects of transversely patterned nonslip and slip (superhydrophobic) surfaces on thermal performance and pressure drop in a circular minichannel under turbulent flow conditions. Numerical ... -
Enhanced Boiling of Saturated Water Over 2 × 3 AISI 304 Tube Bundles Coated With Diamond-Like Carbon for Two-Phase Heat Exchanger Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study aims to address the endeavor of the research community to improve the two-phase heat transfer (HT) characteristics of AISI-304 tubes with low thermal conductivity. This is achieved by applying diamond-like carbon ... -
Analytical Solution for Transient Thermal Behavior of Two Semisolids With Contact Resistance and Interfacial Heat Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The problem of two dissimilar semi-infinite solids at different initial temperatures brought into contact has a well-known simple analytical solution. In this work, this problem is reexamined with the additional simultaneous ... -
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 ... -
Film-Cooling Effectiveness on a Turbine Blade Platform With Various Hole Shapes and Layouts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper reports a film-cooling effectiveness experiment on a turbine blade platform that combines two film hole shapes with three layouts. A linear cascade using the pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) technique was employed ... -
Quick Prediction of Complex Temperature Fields Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Qualified thermal management is an important guarantee for the stable work of electronic devices. However, the increasingly complex cooling structure needs several hours or even longer to simulate, which hinders finding ... -
Enhanced Air-Flow Forced Convection Through Metal Foams: Contrasting Compressed and Uncompressed Foams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The influence of complex pore architecture, its characteristic length, and the contrast between compressed and uncompressed open-cell foam structures in forced convection are explored experimentally. Air-flow (Pr ∼ 0.71; ... -
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 ... -
Long-Term Estimation of Depositions on Heating Surface During Boiling of Long-Life Coolant
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Long-term boiling experiments with long-life coolant have been made with the aim to apply a boiling cooling technology to the next generation high exothermic electronic devices. The long-life coolant commonly used for ...