Characterization of bubble population morphology in direct contact heat transfer process under different flow regimes and its influence on heat transfer performance

Q Zhang, Z Li, B Li, J Xu, H Wang - Experimental Thermal and Fluid …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the effect of bubble population morphological characteristics and heat transfer
performance in the direct contact boiling heat transfer process under two different flow …

Hypothesis-testing combined with image analysis to quantify evolution of bubble swarms in a direct-contact boiling heat transfer process

Q Xiao, J Pan, J Xu, H Wang, Z Lv - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The technology of image enhancement has been proved to be very effective and powerful in
the quantification of bubbling regime, heat transfer performance and mixing efficiency in a …

Experimental investigation of bubble group and temperature distribution uniformity in the direct contact boiling heat transfer process

B Li, Z Li, P Yang, J Xu, H Wang - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present study, a new method is proposed to measure the uniformity of temperature
distribution and the phase distribution in direct contact boiling heat transfer. The proposed …

Complexity evolution quantification of bubble pattern in a gas-liquid mixing system for direct-contact heat transfer

Q Xiao, K Yang, M Wu, J Pan, J Xu, H Wang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The pattern complexity (kinetics and uniformity) of bubble swarms governs the heat transfer
performance in gas-liquid contact systems such as direct-contact boiling heat transfer …

Logistic fitting model application for evaluation of gas-liquid two-phase mixing effects

S Gao, B Li, W Gao, J Xu, H Wang - International Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - degruyter.com
The evaluation of mixing effects is crucial in industrial production such as chemical and
metallurgical industries. An improved Betti number method is proposed by using a gas-liquid …

Enhancement investigation of mass transfer and mixing performance in the static mixers with three twisted leaves

YF Yu, Y Li, HB Meng, HC Liu, B Li… - International Journal of …, 2023 - degruyter.com
The mass transfer and mixing performance in the static mixers with three twisted leaves
(TKSM) were investigated by the computational fluid dynamics coupled population balance …

New metrics for measuring multiphase mixing effects in a direct-contact heat exchanger

J Xu, Q Xiao, Z Lv, J Huang, R Xiao, J Pan… - Applied Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a new method to measure uniformity of gas-liquid mixing in a direct-contact
heat exchanger by moment balance and image analysis. A mapping technique is developed …

Quantifying the evolution of flow boiling bubbles by statistical testing and image analysis: toward a general model

Q Xiao, J Xu, H Wang - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
A new index, the estimate of the error variance, which can be used to quantify the evolution
of the flow patterns when multiphase components or tracers are difficultly distinguishable …

Prediction of air bubble dispersion in a viscous fluid in a twin-screw continuous mixer using FEM simulations of dispersive mixing

KV Vyakaranam, JL Kokini - Chemical engineering science, 2012 - Elsevier
Bubble break-up was studied during mixing of a viscous Newtonian fluid in a co-rotating twin
screw continuous mixer using experimental observations and finite element method (FEM) …

CFD simulation of bubbly flow in a long coaxial heat exchanger

I Akhmadullin, A Kartushinsky - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2021 - Elsevier
The numerical investigation of a two-phase bubbly flow inside a long vertical counterflow
heat exchanger has been performed in this study. The heat transfer was running from the …