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An experimental investigation of wide distillation fuel based on CTL on the combustion performance and emission characteristics from a CI engine (2021)
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Coal to liquid (CTL) has promising application prospects as an alternative diesel fuel, but the direct application of coal-based synthetic diesel with high cetane number (CN) in compression ignition (CI) engines also has problems. Therefore, the CTL... Read More about An experimental investigation of wide distillation fuel based on CTL on the combustion performance and emission characteristics from a CI engine.

Towards the thermal management of electronic devices: A parametric investigation of finned heat sink filled with PCM (2021)
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This study presents the parametric investigation of a phase change material (PCM) filled plate-fin heat sink, used for thermal management (TM) of electronic components. Two-dimensional (2D) unsteady numerical simulations were carried out using the fi... Read More about Towards the thermal management of electronic devices: A parametric investigation of finned heat sink filled with PCM.

Comparison of different fluid-thermal-electric multiphysics modeling approaches for thermoelectric generator systems (2021)
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This work proposes a novel fluid-thermal-electric multiphysics numerical model to predict the performance of thermoelectric generator systems applied to fluid waste heat recovery, with the consideration of multiphysics coupling effects of fluid, ther... Read More about Comparison of different fluid-thermal-electric multiphysics modeling approaches for thermoelectric generator systems.

Numerical investigation on improving the heat storage and transfer performance of ceramic /D-mannitol composite phase change materials by bionic graded pores and nanoparticle additives (2021)
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To speed up the thermal response rate of the latent heat storage system, this research draws on the ideas of bionics and proposes two methods to enhance the performance of heat storage and heat transfer during phase change process. First, a biomimeti... Read More about Numerical investigation on improving the heat storage and transfer performance of ceramic /D-mannitol composite phase change materials by bionic graded pores and nanoparticle additives.

Depression of melting point and latent heat of molten salts as inorganic phase change material: size effect and mechanism (2021)
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The depression of melting point and latent heat is a common phenomenon for nanoporous shape-stabilised phase change materials (ss-PCMs), however, the underlying mechanism is not well understood, especially from the microscopic perspective. As PCMs ar... Read More about Depression of melting point and latent heat of molten salts as inorganic phase change material: size effect and mechanism.

Thermal Effect on Deformation of Nanofluid-Encapsulated Double Emulsion Droplets Flowing in a Constricted Microchannel (2021)
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Double emulsions have been intensively used as a template to form core/shell structured microcapsules encapsulating and releasing a substance of interest in a controllable way for wide spectrum of chemical and biological applications. Herein a numeri... Read More about Thermal Effect on Deformation of Nanofluid-Encapsulated Double Emulsion Droplets Flowing in a Constricted Microchannel.

Thermo-physical properties prediction of carbon-based magnetic nanofluids based on an artificial neural network (2021)
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Nanostructured magnetic suspensions have superior thermophysical properties, which have attracted widespread attention owing to their industrial applications for heat transfer enhancement and thermal management. However, experimental measurements of... Read More about Thermo-physical properties prediction of carbon-based magnetic nanofluids based on an artificial neural network.

Experimental and Numerical Heat Transfer Investigation of Impingement Jet Nozzle Position in Concave Double-Wall Cooling Structures (2021)
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In this paper, experimental and numerical study has been carried out to investigate impingement cooling with a row of five circular jets, varied between target positions on a realistic leading edge region of gas turbine blade geometry. Experimental d... Read More about Experimental and Numerical Heat Transfer Investigation of Impingement Jet Nozzle Position in Concave Double-Wall Cooling Structures.

Comparative assessment of n-butanol addition in CTL on performance and exhaust emissions of a CI engine (2021)
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Coal to liquid (CTL) is a diesel alternative fuel based on Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process, which has shown promising application value. Besides, as an oxygenated biofuel with high oxygen content and volatility, n-butanol can be blended with hydrocarbon... Read More about Comparative assessment of n-butanol addition in CTL on performance and exhaust emissions of a CI engine.

Transient numerical modelling of a thermoelectric generator system used for automotive exhaust waste heat recovery (2021)
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The automotive thermoelectric generator system is a promising technology of exhaust waste heat recovery, but reasonable theoretical models to predict its dynamic performance are lacking. In this work, a transient fluid-thermal-electric multiphysics c... Read More about Transient numerical modelling of a thermoelectric generator system used for automotive exhaust waste heat recovery.

Thermal process enhancement of HNCPCM filled heat sink: Effect of hybrid nanoparticles ratio and shape (2021)
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The present study based on the numerical investigation of a hybrid nanocomposite phase change material (HNCPCM) filled heat sink for passive cooling of electronic devices. The combination of graphene oxide (GO) and silver (Ag) hybrid nanoparticles ar... Read More about Thermal process enhancement of HNCPCM filled heat sink: Effect of hybrid nanoparticles ratio and shape.

Numerical study of nanocomposite phase change material-based heat sink for the passive cooling of electronic components (2021)
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The current two-dimensional (2D) numerical study presents the melting phenomenon and heat transfer performance of the nanocomposite phase change material (NCPCM) based heat sink. Metallic nanoparticles (copper: Cu) of different volume fractions of 0.... Read More about Numerical study of nanocomposite phase change material-based heat sink for the passive cooling of electronic components.

Thermal properties of PEG/MOF-5 regularized nanoporous composite phase change materials: A molecular dynamics simulation (2021)
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In this paper, a metal-organic framework MOF-5 loaded polyethylene glycol (PEG) nanowire was used to form composite phase change material PEG/MOF-5. The molecular dynamics method was used to simulate the thermal conductivity, melting point and latent... Read More about Thermal properties of PEG/MOF-5 regularized nanoporous composite phase change materials: A molecular dynamics simulation.

Polyethylene glycol phase change material embedded in a hierarchical porous carbon with superior thermal storage capacity and excellent stability (2021)
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Hierarchical porous materials are recommended to trade off the mismatch between high loading and efficient crystallization in pore-based composite phase change materials (PCMs), coupling the functions of expanded pores (mesopores and macropores) alon... Read More about Polyethylene glycol phase change material embedded in a hierarchical porous carbon with superior thermal storage capacity and excellent stability.

Experimental and kinetic study on the laminar burning speed, Markstein length and cellular instability of oxygenated fuels (2021)
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The laminar burning speed, Markstein length and cellular instability of three oxygenated fuels, polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether 3 (PODE3), dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and n-butanol (NB), were experimentally studied using spherical flame propagation meth... Read More about Experimental and kinetic study on the laminar burning speed, Markstein length and cellular instability of oxygenated fuels.