Review of computational studies on boiling and condensation

CR Kharangate, I Mudawar - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
Developments in many modern applications are encountering rapid escalation in heat
dissipation, coupled with a need to decrease the size of thermal management hardware …

Recent advances in condensation heat transfer in mini and micro channels: A comprehensive review

K El Kadi, F Alnaimat, SA Sherif - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Condensation in mini and microchannels has been investigated to improve utilization of
thermal energy and heat transfer in various disciplines and applications. The high heat …

Machine learning algorithms to predict flow condensation heat transfer coefficient in mini/micro-channel utilizing universal data

L Zhou, D Garg, Y Qiu, SM Kim, I Mudawar… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Miniature condensers utilizing mini/micro-channel has been recognized as one effective
technique for designing a compact heat rejection device. However, because of the complex …

Volume of fluid model to simulate the nanofluid flow and entropy generation in a single slope solar still

S Rashidi, S Akar, M Bovand, R Ellahi - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes volume of fluid (VOF) model to investigate the potential of Al 2 O 3-
water nanofluid to improve the productivity of a single slope solar still. Accordingly, VOF …

Consolidated modeling and prediction of heat transfer coefficients for saturated flow boiling in mini/micro-channels using machine learning methods

A Bard, Y Qiu, CR Kharangate, R French - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Flow boiling has become a reliable mode of compensating with larger power densities and
greater functions of devices because it is able to utilize both the latent and sensible heat …

Heat transfer enhancement in oblique finned curved microchannel using hybrid nanofluid

R Vinoth, B Sachuthananthan, A Vadivel… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The significant development of power converters in electric vehicles demands higher energy
consumption and in turn larger heat generation. To prevent overheating of power converters …

Modeling of the evaporation and condensation phase-change problems with FLUENT

D Sun, J Xu, Q Chen - Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Based on the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method in the FLUENT code, many phase-change
models have been proposed and applied to simulate evaporation and condensation …

Experimental and computational investigation of vertical downflow condensation

H Lee, CR Kharangate, N Mascarenhas, I Park… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
This explores downflow condensation in a circular tube both experimentally and
computationally using FC-72 as a working fluid. A highly instrumented condensation module …

Flow and heat transfer behavior of hybrid nanofluid through microchannel with two different channels

R Vinoth, B Sachuthananthan - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The current investigation compares the heat transfer and flow characteristics of an oblique
finned microchannel heat sink (MCHS) having newly designed pentagonal, triangular cross …

Numerical investigation of effect of fill ratio and inclination angle on a thermosiphon heat pipe thermal performance

AA Alammar, RK Al-Dadah, SM Mahmoud - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling of a heat pipe is a powerful tool that
can be used to investigate the complex physical phenomena of the evaporation and …