Heat exchangers are recognized as popular thermal devices with various and important
applications in industrial energy systems. Many techniques were employed in order to …

Falling film heat transfer of horizontal shell-side evaporators remains of interest to scientists
due to the complexity of these phenomena for practical applications. However …

The heat transfer performance of commercially produced micro-enhanced tubes with and
without a nanocoating was investigated under pool boiling of saturated refrigerant. These …

This paper presents a series of experiments concerning heat transfer in a vertical row of
horizontal-tube falling film evaporator. By visualization and heat transfer experiments, the …

Limited energy supply and high energy cost impose pressures on ships to improve the
energy efficiency, which will reduce the fuel consumption. In addition, there is attention on …

This work presents a computational model of a helical falling film evaporator of 13 tubes
based on physical principles. The momentum and energy transfer of the system are …

In this study, the heat transfer augmentation of a two-phase closed thermosiphon (TPCT)
with a thin, porous copper coating is studied and compared with an uncoated TPCT. The …

In the current study, the second law of thermodynamics and heat transfer of a power-law
hybrid nanofluid in a micro-tube with a variable heat flux on the hot wall, the attendance of …

Porous surfaces often exhibit exceptional performance in liquid spreading and heat transfer,
making them promising candidates for enhancing falling film heat transfer on solid surfaces …

Detailed, reliable, and time-saving methods to predict the transfer characteristics of
horizontal-tube falling-film absorbers are critical to control system operability, such that it is …