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Michele Ciofalo
Other affiliations: City University London, Northampton Community College
Bio: Michele Ciofalo is an academic researcher from University of Palermo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Turbulence & Heat transfer. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 125 publications receiving 3561 citations. Previous affiliations of Michele Ciofalo include City University London & Northampton Community College.
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TL;DR: The fundamentals of the ED process are presented, highlighting limitations and potentialities in the water and energy industry and the most recent applications of ED-related processes are presented.
330 citations
TL;DR: In this article, numerical simulations of the flow field in baffled mixing tanks, based on three alternative methods, are presented and discussed, where the impeller is not explicitly simulated, and its effects are modelled by imposing suitable, empirically derived, boundary conditions to the external flow.
284 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the method of applying thermochromic liquid crystals and true-colour image processing to give local Nusselt number distribution over the surface and average Nu, both of quantitative reliability; a careful uncertainty analysis is also presented.
169 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an experimental and numerical study of flow and heat transfer was conducted for a crossed-corrugated geometry, representative of compact heat exchangers under transitional and weakly turbulent conditions.
161 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the turbulent flow field generated in an unbaffled stirred tank by a Rushton turbine was computed by large-eddy simulation (LES) and the Smagorinsky model was used to model the unresolved sub-grid scales.
139 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the important and interesting recent developments in Membrane Distillation from the perspectives of membrane fabrication, heat and mass transport phenomenon, nontraditional fouling, module fabrication and applications.
819 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the Kolmogorov velocity scale was introduced to account for the near-wall and low-Reynolds-number effects in both attached and detached flows.
724 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the present state of research in this field and possible directions of development are discussed, focusing on the very diverse background of nanofluidics in biology, chemistry, physics and engineering and valuable knowledge available in these disciplines.
Abstract: Starting from the background of nanofluidics in other disciplines, this paper describes the present state of research in this field and discusses possible directions of development. Emphasis is put on the very diverse background of nanofluidics in biology, chemistry, physics and engineering and the valuable knowledge available in these disciplines. First, the forces that play a role on the nanoscale are discussed and then a summary is given of some different theoretical treatments. Subsequently, an overview is given of the different phenomena occurring on the nanoscale and their present applications. Finally, some possible future applications are discussed.
648 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical model has been built to simulate the small-scale atmospheric flows within the urban canopy, based on the lower atmosphere classical assumptions and the standard κ-ϵ” two-equation turbulence model.
557 citations
TL;DR: Advances in micro-device technology for proteomics, sample preconditioning, immunoassays, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, and polymerase chain reaction are reviewed.
555 citations