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Yunpeng Ren, J. K. Chen^*, Yuwen Zhang
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-7, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3001
Abstract Heat transfer in a copper film irradiated by a femtosecond (fs) laser pulse train and by an integrated dual laser beam of a nanosecond pulse with a fspulse train was studied using the semi-classical two-temperature model. The critical point model with three Lorentzian terms was employed to characterize transient optical properties for the laser energy deposition. The effects of pulse number and separation time on the thermal response were investigated. The results showed that with the same total energy in a fs-pulse train, more pulses for shorter separation time, e.g., 1 ps, and fewer pulses More >

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Frantisek Kavicka^a,*, Jana Dobrovska^b, Karel Stransky^a, Bohumil Sekanina^a, Josef Stetina^a
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-9, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3002
Abstract Corundo-baddeleyit material (CBM) – EUCOR – is a heat- and wear-resistant material even at extreme temperatures. This article introduces an original numerical model of solidification and cooling of this material in a non-metallic mold. The second, cooperating model of chemical heterogeneity and its application on EUCOR samples prove that the applied method of measuring the chemical heterogeneity provides the detailed quantitative information on the material structure and makes it possible to analyze the solidification process. The verification of both numerical models was conducted on a real cast 350 x 200 x 400 mm block. More >

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Nikola Stosic^**, Ian K. Smith, Ahmed Kovacevic
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-7, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3003
Abstract Due to fast rotation of screw compressor rotors, temperature is uniform in the rotor cross section and temperature field is a function of the axial coordinate only. Apart of that the rotors in one cross section the rotors are simultaneously heated by hot gas on one side while cooled at another side by cold gas. As a result of identification of the main modes of heat transfer both in the rotors and between the rotors and their surroundings and the relative significance of each, a novel procedure is suggested to cool the rotors by injection… More >

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Z. Aouachria^a,*, F. Rouichi^a, D. Haddad^b
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-6, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3004
Abstract Natural convection flow past a vertical porous plate in a porous medium is studied numerically, by taking into account the Dufour and Soret effects. The similarity equations of the problem considered are obtained by using usual similarity technique. This system of ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically by using the Nachtsheim -Swigerst hooting iteration technique together with a sixth order Runge-Kutta integrations scheme. The results show that Soret and Dufour effects do not appreciably influence the velocity, temperature and concentration fields, but rather only tend to increase the mass and energy flux due to More >

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Arvind Pattamatta^a,*, Ghanshyam Singh^b
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-11, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3005
Abstract The present study deals with the assessment of different turbulence models for heated wall jet flow. The velocity field and thermal characteristics for isothermal and uniform heat flux surfaces in the presence of wall jet flow have been predicted using different turbulence models and the results are compared against the experimental data of Wygnanski et al. (1992), Schneider and Goldstein (1994), and AbdulNour et al. (2000). Thirteen different turbulence models are considered for validation, which include the Standard k-ε (SKE), Realizable k-ε (RKE), shear stress transport (SST), Sarkar & So (SSA), v ² -f, Reynolds stress… More >

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Gintautas Miliauskas^*, Stasys Sinkunas, Kristina Norvaisiene, Kestutis Sinkunas
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-6, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3006
Abstract Water droplet evaporation process is numerically modelled under various heat and mass transfer conditions. Regularities of heat transfer process interaction are examined. Modelling in this work was performed using the combined analytical – numerical method to investigate heat and mass transfer in the two-phase droplets-gas flow system. The influence of forced liquid circulation on the thermal state of droplets is taken into account by the effective coefficient of thermal conductivity. Calculating the rate of droplet evaporation and the intensity of convective heating, the influence of the Stefan’s hydrodynamic flow is taken into account. Balancing energy More >

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P. V. Ramana, Arunn Narasimhan^*, Dhiman Chatterjee
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-6, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3007
Abstract The present experimental study investigates the effect of tube-to-tube porous interconnectors on the pressure drop and heat transfer (Nu) of tube banks. A copper wire mesh porous medium connects successive tubes of the in-line and staggered arrangement of six rows of tubes. The tubes are subjected to constant and uniform heat flux and cooled by forced convection using water as a cooling fluid in the laminar flow range (100 < ReDuct < 625). The inline configuration with the tube-to-tube porous medium inter-connectors provides marginal enhancement of heat transfer and 12% reduction in the pressure drop More >

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Majid Tahmasebi Kohyani^a, Behzad Ghasemi^a, Ahmad Pasandideh Fard^b,*
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 1-6, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.2.3008
Abstract Natural convection heat transfer in a square cavity with a porous medium subjected to a uniform energy generation per unit volume is studied numerically in this paper. Temperature of the vertical walls is not equal but it is constant . There are two effective parameters in this condition that appear in the nondimensionalized equations and they are functions of temperature difference between hot and cold walls and energy generation in the porous medium. Nondimensionalized governing equations are obtained based on the Darcy model. a control volume approach is used for solving these equations. The effects More >

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