Pump as turbine cavitation performance for both conventional and reverse operating modes: A review

K Kan, M Binama, H Chen, Y Zheng, D Zhou… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing adoption of renewable energy sources globally, hydropower contributes
significantly to energy generation through various schemes ranging from big to small-scale …

Fundamentals and applications of CFD technology on analyzing falling film heat and mass exchangers: A comprehensive review

T Wen, L Lu, W He, Y Min - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Falling film driven by gravity finds wide application in various industry areas, such as
refrigeration, chemical engineering and desalination. The liquid film flows along the solid …

Response surface analysis, clustering, and random forest regression of pressure in suddenly expanded high-speed aerodynamic flows

A Afzal, A Aabid, A Khan, SA Khan, U Rajak… - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Experimental analysis of base pressure in suddenly expanded compressible flow from
nozzles at different Mach numbers is performed. Intensive experimentation is carried out to …

Battery thermal management: An optimization study of parallelized conjugate numerical analysis using Cuckoo search and Artificial bee colony algorithm

A Afzal, ADM Samee, RD Jilte, MT Islam… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal management of heat-generating battery packs involve many operating parameters
affecting its performance, efficiency, and maintenance. Heat generation (Q gen), conductivity …

Multi-objective optimization of thermal performance in battery system using genetic and particle swarm algorithm combined with fuzzy logics

A Afzal, MK Ramis - Journal of Energy Storage, 2020 - Elsevier
A novel technique for multi-objective optimization of thermal management in battery system
using hybrid Genetic algorithm and Fuzzy logic is developed. Secondly, Particle Swarm …

Experimental investigation of the mechanical properties of carbon/basalt/SiC nanoparticle/polyester hybrid composite materials

K Karthik, D Rajamani, EP Venkatesan, MI Shajahan… - Crystals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, many researchers have focused on the preparation of carbon and basalt
fiber-reinforced composites. As a result, the composites have gained popularity as an …

Thermo-mechanical analysis and estimation of turbine blade tip clearance of a small gas turbine engine under transient operating conditions

R Kumar, VS Kumar, MM Butt, NA Sheikh… - Applied Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Turbine blade tip clearance is one of the significant factors that influence turbine efficiency,
Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC), Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT), and emissions …

Thermo-mechanical and structural performances of automobile disc brakes: a review of numerical and experimental studies

A Afzal, M Abdul Mujeebu - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2019 - Springer
Disc brake system is one of the most critical components in a vehicle, which is always
exposed to nonlinear transient thermoelastic conditions. Optimal design of a brake system to …

Integrated graph deep learning framework for flow field reconstruction and performance prediction of turbomachinery

J Li, T Liu, Y Wang, Y Xie - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance and reliability of turbomachinery directly affect the efficiency and safety of
energy conversion systems. A dual graph neural network (DGNN) for turbomachinery flow …

ESO-based adaptive event-triggered load following control design for a pressurized water reactor with samarium–promethium dynamics

J Hui, YK Lee, J Yuan - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional control systems used in nuclear reactors rely on real-time information
transmission between the controllers and the actuators, which is unnecessary and imposes …