Journal of Heat Transfer: Recent submissions
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Analysis of the Fin Performance of Offset Strip Fins Used in Plate Fin Heat Exchangers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)As an important consideration in the design of platefin heat exchangers, the selection of platefin surfaces is associated with the estimation of the fin performance in many cases. The fin performance of offset strip fin ... -
Heat Transfer Inside the Physical Vapor Transport Reactor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The physical vapor transport (PVT) method is widely adopted to produce semiconductor materials including silicon carbide (SiC). This work focuses on the role of thermal radiation for the heat transfer inside the PVT reactor. ... -
Ray Effect Mitigation Through Reference Frame Rotation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The discrete ordinates method is a popular and versatile technique for solving the radiative transport equation, a major drawback of which is the presence of ray effects. Mitigation of ray effects can yield significantly ... -
Coupled Heat Transfers in a Refinery Furnace in View of Fouling Prediction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In industrial refinery furnaces, the efficiency of thermal transfer to heat crude oil before distillation is often altered by coke deposition inside the fuel pipes. This leads to increased production and maintenance costs, ... -
Heat Transfer Gallery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The purpose of publishing these entries is to draw attention to the innovative features of visualization techniques and esthetic qualities of thermal processes. To focus on visualization images and schematics for each ... -
Thermal Instability of Convection in a Rotating Nanofluid Saturated Porous Layer Placed at a Finite Distance From the Axis of Rotation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)An analytical investigation for the onset of convection in a vertical porous layer saturated by a nanofluid is presented when the porous layer is placed some finite distance from the axis of rotation. A linear stability ... -
Dimensionless Optimization of Thermoelectric Cooler Performance When Integrated Within a Thermal Resistance Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Thermoelectric coolers (TECs) are solidstate cooling devices which can be used in certain applications to reduce the operating temperature of electronics or increase their heat dissipation. However, the performance of the ... -
Comparison of Three Dimensional Multidomain and Single Domain Models for the Horizontal Solidification Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In this paper, horizontal solidification of gallium in a rectangular cavity was studied both experimentally and numerically. Two threedimensional (3D) numerical models related to different numerical approaches were built. ... -
Special Issue on the International Conference on Thermal Engineering and Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The ICTEA conference series was inspired by the need to help provide an opportunity for professional development of scientists and engineers in the Middle East, including the Gulf region and North Africa. The need for such ... -
Nano Alumina Accommodation Coefficient Measurement Using Time Resolved Laser Induced Incandescence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)It has recently been suggested that the accommodation coefficient of nanoaluminum/alumina particles may be significantly smaller than previously assumed. This result has significant implications on the heat transfer and ... -
Effect of Phase Thermal Modulation Without Stationary Temperature Gradient on the Threshold of Convection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The convective instability of a horizontal fluid layer subject to a time varying gradient of temperature is investigated. The stationary component of the temperature gradient is considered equal to zero and the oscillating ... -
Optimization Arrangement of Two Pulsating Impingement Slot Jets for Achieving Heat Transfer Coefficient Uniformity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In this paper, an optimization was performed to achieve uniform distribution of convective heat transfer coefficient over a target plate using two impinging slot (air) jets. The objective function is the root mean square ... -
Finite Element Method Based Three Dimensional Thermal Tomography for Disease Diagnosis of Human Body
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A finite element method (FEM)based thermal approach to reconstruct the diseaseassociated heat source distribution has been developed. The congruent relationship between the heat sources and the observed temperature is ... -
Numerical Investigation of Thermofluid Flow in a Chemical Vapor Deposition Furnace Utilized to Manufacture Template Synthesized Carbon Nanotubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Templatebased chemical vapor deposition (TBCVD) is a versatile technique for manufacturing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or CNTbased devices for various applications. In this process, carbon is deposited by thermal decomposition ... -
Thermal and Hydrodynamic Performance of Aqueous CuO and Al2O3 Nanofluids in an Annular Coiled Tube Under Constant Wall Temperature and Laminar Flow Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Laminar flow and heat transfer behaviors of two different metal oxide, Al2O3 (36 nm) and CuO (29 nm), nanofluids flowing through an annular coiled tube heat exchanger (ACTHE) with constant wall temperature boundary ... -
Three Dimensional Stagnation Point Flow and Heat Transfer of a Dusty Fluid Toward a Stretching Sheet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The steady threedimensional stagnationpoint flow and heat transfer of a dusty fluid toward a stretching sheet is investigated by using similarity solution approach. The freestream along zdirection impinges on the stretching ... -
Dynamic Models of Thermal Systems Using an Energy Based Modeling Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The aim of this work is to give a new approach to obtain compact dynamic thermal models suitable for a variety of systems where the heat transfer can be caused by conduction, internal convection (not at the boundary), and ... -
Computational Study of Three Dimensional Stagnation Point Nanofluid Bioconvection Flow on a Moving Surface With Anisotropic Slip and Thermal Jump Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The effects of anisotropic slip and thermal jump on the threedimensional stagnation point flow of nanofluid containing microorganisms from a moving surface have been investigated numerically. Anisotropic slip takes place ... -
A Numerical Investigation on the Influence of Porosity on the Steady State and Transient Thermal–Hydraulic Behavior of the PBMR
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The thermal–hydraulic phenomena in a pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) core have been simulated under steadystate and transient conditions. The PBMR core is basically a long right circular cylinder with a fuel effective ... -
Investigations on the Influence of Flow Migration on Flow and Heat Transfer in Oblique Fin Microchannel Array
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In order to scrutinize the coolant mass distribution and its effect to the heat transfer in oblique fin microchannel array, extensive numerical studies are performed on planar oblique fin configuration. Fulldomain simulations ...