Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications: Recent submissions
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The Effect of Wind Screens on the Performance of an Induced Draft AirCooled Condenser Under Windless and Windy Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Wind generally reduces the thermal effectiveness of aircooled condensers (ACCs). Therefore, this study investigates wind screens as a means to improve the performance of a 20fan induced draft ACC under windy conditions. ... -
Convective Performance of C5FlouroketoneBased (C5FK) and C4FlouronitrileBased (C4FN) Gas Mixtures and SF6
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)SF6 is a widely used insulating gas in the electric power industry due to its high dielectric strength. However, SF6 is classified as a greenhouse gas and has a very high global warming potential (GWP). Much research and ... -
Cooling Characteristic of an Infrared Suppression Device With Single Perforated Funnel: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)An infrared suppression (IRS) device is integral to any gas turbine used in naval and cargo ships. Estimating an IRS device’s cooling characteristics is essential to start the maintenance operation. Thus, this article ... -
Recent Progress and Challenges in Microscale Urban Heat Modeling and Measurement for Urban Engineering Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This review focuses on progress and emerging challenges in experimentally validated modeling of microscale urban thermal environments over the last two decades. In the last few decades, there has been a surge in urban ... -
Experimental Investigation of a Thermally Responsive Actuator Based on Metallic Molybdenum Disulfide: A Conceptual Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Actuators that convert external stimuli to mechanical energy have aroused strong attention for emerging applications in robotics, artificial muscles, and other fields. However, their limited performance under harsh operating ... -
A Comparative Numerical Study of Estimation of Velocity Components in Mixed Convection Through Vertical Shrouded Plate Finned Channel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)An attempt has been made to investigate the performance of two methods of estimation of free and forced convection velocity components present in mixed convection. For this present analysis, a vertically configured shrouded ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Humidification Parameters in a Vertically Aligned Triple Pad Multistage Evaporative Cooler
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The present work involves designing and fabricating the threestage humidifier test rig where three Celdek 7090 packings are arranged vertically at equidistance, forming a multistage humidifier. Water flowrate and airflow ... -
Experimental and Computational Investigation for Accelerated Testing and Characterization of NextGeneration Steam Turbine Rotors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A unique set of test protocols is developed to evaluate new materials for hightemperature and pressure applications (>700 °C and 310 bar) in nextgeneration thermal power plants. These protocols employ accelerated testing ... -
Experimental Investigations on the Effect of Ultrasonic Field in External Pool Boiling Under Various Operating Pressures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The augmentation of boiling heat transfer has been a dynamic domain of research for the past several decades due to a wide range of energy intensive applications and, in line, many active and passive methods have been ... -
Performance Evaluation of Plate Heat Exchanger Using CuODI Water Nanofluid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Experimental and numerical investigations have been carried out for performance evaluation of plate heat exchanger (PHE) using CuODI water nanofluid at different volume concentrations of (ϕ = 0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.03, 0.05, ... -
Air Entrainment and Outlet Temperature Characteristics of a Modified Infrared Suppression Device With Inward and Outward Guides
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A passive infrared suppression (IRS) device is an important and integral part of the modern naval/cargo ships, fighter jets, and helicopters to cool down the hot exhaust gas to suppress the infrared (IR) signatures. A ... -
Effects of Upstream Step Geometries on Endwall Film Cooling and Phantom Cooling Performances of a Transonic Turbine Vane
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In gas turbine engines, the endwall misalignment (step geometries with various step heights) commonly exists between the combustor exit and the first nozzle guide vane endwall, due to assembly error, metal corrosion, and ... -
Theoretical and Numerical Research on Heat Transfer Mechanism and Temperature Characteristics of Electric Rotary Alumina Kiln
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Electric rotary kiln is one of the key equipment in the chemical industry, which is mainly used for heating materials. In the current research, the heat calculation method of the electric rotary alumina kiln is constructed, ... -
Nexus Between Human Thermoregulation and Cardiovascular Functions—A Preliminary Simulation for a Moderate Variation of Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Though the interaction between cardiovascular functions and thermoregulation is enormously complex yet immensely important, very little effort to date has been spent to simulate it from a system point of view. The present ... -
Dynamic Heat Transfer Characteristic of Heat Exchanger for Sensible Heat Recovery of Raw Coke Oven Gas
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A simplified hybrid-dimensional unsteady heat transfer model for the ascension-pipe heat exchanger with a helically coiled tube embedded in the jacket and supported by high conductivity particles is established based on ... -
Preheating Effects on Compression Ignition Engine Through Waste Heat Recovery Using THNF-Based Radiator Coolant: An Experimental Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The present paper focuses on the thermohydraulic performance of a car radiator using Al2O3, CuO, and TiO2 nanoparticles disseminated in an equal fraction in the range of 0.06–0.12% called Ternary hybrid nanofluid (THNF), ... -
Thermal Analysis of the Effect of Absorber Plate Geometric Parameters on the Dynamic of an Indirect Type Solar Dryer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper studies the effects of the absorber plate geometry on the thermal performance of an indirect solar dryer considering temperature dependent thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficients. The main goal was ... -
Study on the Performance of the Low-Cost Cooling System for Transmit/Receive Module and Broadening the Exploitative Capabilities of the System Using Gravity Heat Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The authors use computer simulation and experiment to study thermal characteristics of a less expensive design of the air cooling system for transmit/receive modules based on the heat sink with the dimensions of 25 × 324 ... -
Air-to-Liquid Heat Exchanger Fabricated Using Deposition-Based Additive Manufacturing Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work describes the use of deposition-based additive manufacturing (AM) techniques to fabricate air-cooled, two-fluid heat exchangers. The project focused on a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning application and ... -
Overall Pressure Loss and Heat Transfer Performance of Additively Manufactured Offset Strip Fins Used in Compact Heat Exchangers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Preliminary heat exchanger design relies heavily on correlations for overall heat transfer and pressure drop performance, particularly for heat transfer augmentation features such as fins. Extensive work has been performed ...