ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer: Recent submissions
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Atmospheric Bubbling Fluidized Bed Risers: Effect of Cone Angle on Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this paper, a comparative study of fluid flow behavior and thermal characteristics of sand particles has been carried out numerically and experimentally in bubbling fluidized beds for five-cone angles of the riser wall ... -
Stability of Tollmien–Schlichting Modes in Magnetohydrodynamic Boundary Layer Flow in Porous Medium: Energy Budget Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Linear temporal and spatial stability analyses of the magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow over a wedge embedded in a porous medium have been carried out to analyze the effects of pressure gradient, Hartmann and Darcy ... -
Insights Into Pool Boiling Heat Transfer on Minichannel Surfaces Through Point and Field Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this study, saturated pool boiling experiments were conducted on copper minichannel and flat surfaces at atmospheric pressure using water as the working fluid. The heat transfer performance was assessed through point ... -
Bayesian Inference for Estimating Heat Sources Through Temperature Assimilation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper utilizes a Bayesian inference framework to address the two-dimensional (2D) steady-state heat conduction problem, focusing on the estimation of unknown distributed heat sources in a thermally conducting medium ... -
Flow Characteristics and Heat Transfer Enhancement of Electro-Thermo-Convection in Dielectric Liquids With Residual Conductivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The flow features and heat transfer enhancement of electro-thermo-convection (ETC) in dielectric liquids with residual conductivity between concentric electrodes are numerically studied based on an injection–conduction ... -
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 ... -
Coupled Wall Boiling and Population Balance Model for High Void Fraction Flows Under Sub-Cooled Nucleate Boiling Regime: Model Development and Validation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The subcooled flow boiling of water in a vertical annulus channel is studied numerically at low-pressure conditions. The two-fluid model is developed with flow-regime dependent interfacial transfers for mass, momentum, and ... -
Surrogate Modeling-Based Analysis of Concentration Decay in Diffusion-Reaction Mass Transfer Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Diffusion-reaction phenomena occur commonly in heat and mass transfer problems. Determining the decay characteristics of such problems by solving the underlying energy/mass conservation equation is often mathematically ... -
Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Novel Vortex Ribs in a Rotating Channel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics of a novel Vortex rib in a cooling channel have been studied both experimentally and numerically under the Reynolds numbers from 10,000 to 80,000 and rotation numbers from 0 ... -
Numerical Simulation of Phase Change Dual-Phase-Lag Bioheat Model With Nanocryosurgery Using Radial Basis Function Meshfree Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The current study is concerned with the numerical simulation of the phase change process in a two-dimensional (2D) dual-phase-lag (DPL) bioheat model applied to nanocryosurgery. A Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) ... -
Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer of Nanofluids Inside Helical Tubes at Constant Wall Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This paper investigates the forced convection of alumina-water nanofluids within helical tubes, maintaining a constant wall temperature and assuming thermal equilibrium between the nanoparticles and the base fluid. The ... -
Reflections on My Research in Heat and Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article reflects on the author's research career, which has focused on heat and energy. It details the challenges faced by the author and his research group, highlights their successes and failures, and explores some ... -
Nonclassical Heat Transfer and Recent Progress
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Heat transfer in solids has traditionally been described by Fourier's law, which assumes local equilibrium and a diffusive transport regime. However, advancements in nanotechnology and the development of novel materials ... -
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 ... -
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 ...