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Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer

G. F. Hewitt
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The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11281 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mass transfer.

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The cooling performance of a building integrated evaporative cooling system driven by solar energy

TL;DR: In this paper, a dew-point evaporative cooler was integrated with the ceiling of a building, and the air flow induced by the solar chimney was predicted by simulation and the cooling effect of the dew point evaporative cooling was also analyzed by heat and mass transfer simulation.
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Natural convection in a cross-fin heat sink

TL;DR: In this article, a novel cross-fin heat sink consisting of a series of long fins and perpendicularly arranged short fins was proposed to enhance natural convective heat transfer, which is based on overcoming internal thermal fluid-flow defects in a conventional plate-fin Heat Sink.
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Ground source heat pumps as high efficient solutions for building space conditioning and for integration in smart grids

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that ground source heat pumps are a very high efficiency technology for buildings space conditioning, and present a high potential for electric load management as a flexible load, when combined with the thermal storage capacity of the building.
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Advanced design of periodical architectures in bulk metals by means of Laser Interference Metallurgy

TL;DR: In this paper, commercial stainless steel, copper and aluminum substrates were irradiated using single pulses of a nanosecond Nd:YAG laser with two and three laser-beam configurations operating at 355nm of wavelength.
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Experimental review of the homogeneous temperature assumption in post-flashover compartment fires

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the accuracy and range of validity of this assumption using the previously conducted fire tests of Cardington (1999) and Dalmarnock (2006) and showed that the homogeneous temperature assumption does not hold well in post-flashover compartment fires.