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Jian Wu

Bio: Jian Wu is an academic researcher from Harbin Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lattice Boltzmann methods & Liquid dielectric. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 31 publications receiving 288 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D unified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) was used to simulate 3D electroconvection in a dielectric liquid lying between two parallel plates.
Abstract: Charge injection induced electroconvection in a dielectric liquid lying between two parallel plates is numerically simulated in three dimensions (3D) using a unified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Cellular flow patterns and their subcritical bifurcation phenomena of 3D electroconvection are numerically investigated for the first time. A unit conversion is also derived to connect the LBM system to the real physical system. The 3D LBM codes are validated by three carefully chosen cases and all results are found to be highly consistent with the analytical solutions or other numerical studies. For strong injection, the steady state roll, polygon, and square flow patterns are observed under different initial disturbances. Numerical results show that the hexagonal cell with the central region being empty of charge and centrally downward flow is preferred in symmetric systems under random initial disturbance. For weak injection, the numerical results show that the flow directly passes from the motionless state ...

64 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical analysis of laminar flow and forced convective heat transfer of Galinstan through a mini-channel heat sink exposed to a constant heat flux has been presented.

57 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the electrothermo-convection of a perfectly insulating liquid lying between a square enclosure and a heated inner circular cylinder was numerically investigated using a unified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).

50 citations

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Kang Luo1, Tian-Fu Li1, Jian Wu1, Hong-Liang Yi1, He-Ping Tan1 
TL;DR: In this paper, the fully coupled governing equations, including the Navier-Stokes equations, the electrohydrodynamic equations, and the energy equation, are solved using a unified lattice Boltzmann model.
Abstract: Electro-thermo-hydrodynamic (ETHD) flows induced by simultaneous Coulomb and buoyancy forces in a dielectric medium are studied. Previous results limited to two dimensions are extended to three dimensions. The fully coupled governing equations, including the Navier–Stokes equations, the electrohydrodynamic equations, and the energy equation, are solved using a unified lattice Boltzmann model. Various flow patterns, determined by the balance between the buoyancy-driven mechanism and the Coulomb-driven mechanism, can be observed for different combinations of the governing parameters (the electric Rayleigh number T and the Rayleigh number Ra). It is found that the electrical effect on enhancement of heat transfer becomes significant at a relatively low value of Ra. Besides, an approximately linear relationship is found between the Nusselt number Nu and T. Finally, ETHD flows for different directions of charge injection are investigated, and the results reveal that the heat transfer performance of the system is improved when the injection direction is the same as the direction of the temperature gradient.

37 citations

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TL;DR: Melting in the presence of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow driven by the Coulomb force in dielectric phase change material is numerically studied and it is found that the electric field has significant influence on the melting, especially at high T and Pr and low St.
Abstract: Melting in the presence of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow driven by the Coulomb force in dielectric phase change material is numerically studied. A model is developed for the EHD flow in the solid-liquid phase change process. The fully coupled equations including mechanical equations, electrical equations, energy equations, and the continuity equations in the solid-liquid interface are solved using a unified lattice Boltzmann model (LBM). Firstly, the numerical model is validated by several cases in the hydrostatic state, and all LBM results are found to be highly consistent with analytical solutions. Besides, our LBM code is able to reproduce the step changes in the distribution of charge density and electric field due to the discontinuous distribution of physical properties at the interface. Then, a systematical investigation is conducted on various nondimensional parameters, including electric Rayleigh number T, Prandtl number Pr, and Stefan number St. Results are presented for the transient evolutions of temperature, fluid flow, charge density fields, and liquid fraction. Four flow stages in the melting process together with three kinds of flow instabilities are observed. It is found that the electric field has significant influence on the melting, especially at high T and Pr and low St. Over the tested cases, a maximum melting time saving of around 50% is found.

30 citations


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553 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of different forces in nanofluid flows that exist in particulate flows such as drag, lift (Magnus and Saffman), Brownian, thermophoretic, Van der Waals, electrostatic double layer forces are considered.

165 citations

01 Jun 1998
TL;DR: Castellanos et al. as discussed by the authors defined the Coulomb Coulomb force current density defined depends dielectric constant dielectrics liquids diffusion dimensionless dipole, amplitude applied voltage Atten average cavity chapter characteristic charge carriers charge density coefficient conductivity conservation equation consider convective cells.
Abstract: Electrohydrodynamics | SpringerLink Electrohydrodynamics Antonio Castellanos No preview available 2014. Common terms and phrases. amplitude applied voltage Atten average cavity chapter characteristic charge carriers charge density coefficient conductivity conservation equation consider convective cells Coulomb Coulomb force current density defined depends dielectric constant dielectric liquids diffusion dimensionless dipole ...

107 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D unified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) was used to simulate 3D electroconvection in a dielectric liquid lying between two parallel plates.
Abstract: Charge injection induced electroconvection in a dielectric liquid lying between two parallel plates is numerically simulated in three dimensions (3D) using a unified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Cellular flow patterns and their subcritical bifurcation phenomena of 3D electroconvection are numerically investigated for the first time. A unit conversion is also derived to connect the LBM system to the real physical system. The 3D LBM codes are validated by three carefully chosen cases and all results are found to be highly consistent with the analytical solutions or other numerical studies. For strong injection, the steady state roll, polygon, and square flow patterns are observed under different initial disturbances. Numerical results show that the hexagonal cell with the central region being empty of charge and centrally downward flow is preferred in symmetric systems under random initial disturbance. For weak injection, the numerical results show that the flow directly passes from the motionless state ...

64 citations