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Thermal Performance Analysis of an Underground Closed Chamber with Human Body Heat Sources under Natural Convection
(2018-12-25)
In this article, a combined experimental and numerical study has been performed to investigate the thermal performance of a mine refuge chamber (MRC) under natural convection. In the current study, a 20-hour heating ...
Three-Dimensional Modelling and Simulation of the Ice Accretion Process on Aircraft Wings
(2018-11-28)
In this article, a new computational method for the three-dimensional (3D) ice accretion analysis on an aircraft wing is formulated and validated. The two-phase flow field is calculated based on Eulerian-Eulerian approach ...
Experimental and analytical study on heat generation characteristics of a lithium-ion power battery
(2018-07-01)
A combined experimental and analytical study has been performed to investigate the transient heat generation characteristics of a lithium-ion power battery in the present work. Experimental apparatus is newly built and the ...
Large eddy simulation of supercritical heat transfer to hydrocarbon fuel
(2018-06-30)
In this article, a large eddy simulation (LES) method for the heat transfer of the hydrocarbon fuel flowing through the uniformly heated miniature round pipe at supercritical pressure has been formulated and validated. The ...
Experimental investigation of shear-driven water film flows on horizontal metal plate
(2018-06)
In this article, an experimental investigation has been conducted to characterize the instantaneous thickness of the surface water film driven by high-speed airflow pertinent to aerodynamic icing and anti-icing modeling. ...
Numerical investigation of pyrolysis effects on heat transfer characteristics and flow resistance of n-decane under supercritical pressure
(2018-06-01)
Pyrolysis of hydrocarbon fuel plays an important role in the regenerative cooling process. In this article, a Two-Dimensional (2D) numerical model is proposed to investigate the pyrolysis effects on the heat transfer ...
Experimental Study of the Dynamics of Water Film on an Aluminum Substrate under Wind Shear
(Aerospace Research Central, 2018-05-31)
Aircraft icing poses a serious threat to flight safety. Unfrozen parts of impinging water on the surface of the aircraft will run back under the effect of high-speed airflow, altering liquid distribution and heat transfer ...
Effects of Cryogenic Treatment after Annealing of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Sheet on Its Formability at Room Temperature
(2018-04-24)
In this article, the effects of cryogenic treatment after annealing on the formability of Ti-6Al-4V alloy sheet were experimentally studied. The Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy was treated by cryogenic treatment after annealing ...
PIV flow measurements for a rotating square smooth channel heated by basically uniform heat flux
(2018-04-01)
In this paper, we experimentally investigated the mainstream and secondary flow in a smooth rotating channel with wall heated by particle image velocimetry (PIV). The hybrid effect of Coriolis force and buoyancy force on ...
Diameter effect on the heat transfer of supercritical hydrocarbon fuel in horizontal tubes under turbulent conditions
(2018-04-01)
This article presented a numerical investigation of supercritical heat transfer of the hydrocarbon fuel in a series of horizontal tubes with different diameters. The Reynolds averaging equations of mass, momentum and energy ...