Abstract: The paper presents an original criterion to parameterize systematically a cross-flow fan configuration according to the most significant variables defining the geometry and then affecting performance ...

Abstract: Most of the thermoeconomic accounting and optimization methods for energy systems are based upon a definition of the productive purpose for each component. On the basis of this definition, a ...

Abstract: A method for the thermodynamic optimization of the humid air turbine cycle plant structure is presented here. The method is based on the optimization of a “basic configuration of the plant” ...

Abstract: In Part I of the paper a thermodynamic optimization methodology was presented for the “basic” configuration of a humid air turbine cycle plant in which the heat exchange section is viewed as ...

Abstract: A systematic investigation of cross-flow fan performances is presented according to an original criterion for the parameterization of fan geometry. Test facility and procedures are set up following ...

Abstract: The limited number of experimental investigations on similarity operation in the literature is not sufficient to state the validity of similarity laws for cross-flow fans. This is also due to ...