Advanced Computational Methods in Heat Transfer

Section 1: Natural and forced convection A discussion on finite-difference schemes for low Prandtl number Rayleigh-Benard convection; A numerical study of the convective heat transfer between a room and a window covered by a partially open plane blind with a gap at the top; An analytical solution to the Graetz problem with viscous dissipation for non-Newtonian fluids; Heat transfer by unsteady laminar mixed convection in 2-D ventilated enclosures using the vorticity-stream function formulation; Effect of roughness shape on heat transfer and flow friction characteristics of solar air heater with roughened absorber plate; Study of conjugate heat transfer accompanying mixed convection in a vertical tube submitted to a step of entry temperature Section 2: Advances in computational methods An interaction of a sonic injection jet with a supersonic turbulent flow approaching a re-entry vehicle to atmosphere; Simulation of coupled nonlinear electromagnetic heating with the Green element method; Lattice Boltzmann simulation of vortices merging in a two-phase mixing layer; A numerical solution of the NS equations based on the mean value theorem with applications to aerothermodynamics; Solution of the radiative transfer problems in two-dimensional participating cylindrical medium with isotropic scattering using the SKN approximation; Presentation of the hemisphere method; Temperature identification based on pointwise transient measurements Section 3: Heat and mass transfer Heat transfer in 3D water and ice basins; Coupled heat and moisture transport in a building envelope on cast gypsum basis; Spray water cooling heat transfer under oxide scale formation conditions; How to design compact mass transfer packing for maximum efficiency; Autowave regimes of heat and mass transfer in the non-isothermal through-reactors; Experimental studies of heat transfer between crystal, crucible elements, and surrounding media when growing large-size alkali halide ingots with melt feeding; Modelling of heat and mass transfer in water pool type storages for spent nuclear fuel Section 4: Modelling and experiments Experimental study of in-line tube bundle heat transfer in vertical foam flow; Use of graphics software in radiative heat transfer simulation; On heat transfer variation in film flow related with surface cross curvature; Experimental investigation of enhanced heat transfer of self-exciting mode oscillating flow heat pipe with non-uniform profile under laser heating; Investigation of heat transfer in the cup-cast method by experiment, and analytical method; Atwood number effects in buoyancy driven flows; Testing of the vapour chamber used in electronics cooling; Modeling a real backdraft incident fire; Numerical and experimental studies in the development of new clothing materials; Sensitivity analysis of a computer code for modelling confined fires; Conservative averaging as an approximate method for solution of some direct and inverse heat transfer problems Section 5: Heat exchangers and equipment Estimating number of shells and determining the log mean temperature difference correction factor of shell and tube heat exchangers; The re-commissioned thermosyphon reboiler research facility in the Morton Laboratory; Analysis of water condensation and two-phase flow in a channel relevant for plate heat exchangers; Numerical heat transfer modelling of staggered array impinging jets; The re-commissioning of a vent and reflux condensation research facility for vacuum and atmospheric operation; Heat transfer modelling in double pipes for domestic hot water systems; Convective heat transfer investigations at parts of a generator circuit breaker; Simplified 3-D FE model of thermal conditions inside a shoe Section 6: Energy systems Radiative heat transfer in a model gas turbine combustor; Thermo-economics of an irreversible solar driven heat engine; Analysis of a new solar chimney plant design for mountainous regions Section 7: Micro and nano scale heat and mass transfer Sinusoidal regime analysis of heat transfer in microelectronic systems; Viscous dissipation and temperature dependent viscosity effects in simultaneously developing flows in flat microchannels with convective boundary conditions; Experimental study of water evaporation from nanoporous cylinder surface in natural convective airflow