Thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization are vital research areas which are being
explored extensively in recent years due to significant performance enhancement achieved …

Thermal resistance and pumping power are two key metrics to evaluate the performance of
microchannel heat sinks. To reach their better performance, porous medium can serve as an …

The development of thermoelectric (TE) applications is promising due to great advances
achieved in recent decades; however, some limitations still exist in the implementation of TE …

A marine condenser with exhausted steam as the working fluid is researched in this paper.
Constructal designs of the condenser are numerically conducted based on single and multi …

High cost, and scarcity of high-performance thermoelectric materials are some of the
reasons that hinder large scale production of thermoelectric devices. In view thereof, a novel …

The combining rib of porous layer and solid wall is set in wavy microchannel heat sink to
enlarge heat transfer area and convection with smaller increase in flow resistance, in which …

The volumetric solar receiver is a major component of concentrating solar thermal systems.
Proper selection of design and operating parameters is necessary to obtain the best receiver …

Contact resistance and Thomson heat are the two major factors in the analysis of
thermoelectric modules that are often being ignored. Each of these factors has an adverse …

This paper aims to find a more general analysis method for the refrigeration performance,
and to design a high efficiency modular cooling structure of water-cooled plate. A new …

To ensure effective heat recovery of thermoelectric generators, a cooling system is
necessary to maintain the working temperature difference of the thermoelectric couples …