Showing papers on "Fin (extended surface) published in 2020"
TL;DR: In this article, the thermal performance of the battery module has been numerically investigated by adopting a phase change cooling technique, and an optimized PCM module is proposed based on above, and compared with the PCM.
165 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical study was carried out through 3D lattice Boltzmann method with respect to different pin-fin configurations, expanded graphite (EG) content, PCM melting temperature, and heat flux conditions.
119 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a finned shell-and-tube thermal energy storage unit filled with metal foam outperformed other competing heat transfer structures, favoring the potentials for further advances in thermal storage applications.
117 citations
TL;DR: From obtained outcomes, it is noticed that, fin with known convective coefficient at the tip shows greater heat transfer rate than fin with insulated tip.
105 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of inlet turbulence intensity (TI) and fin diameter (D) of the micro-pin-fin on the performance of the heat sink were investigated.
84 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical model considering natural convection was established to evaluate the melting process of PCM in finned LHTES units, and the results indicated that the fin structure has a remarkable effect on the charging process.
74 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of a uniform external magnetic field with Fe3O4/water nanofluid for heat transfer enhancement of a fin-and-tube compact heat exchanger is numerically investigated.
66 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of heat movement through longitudinal permeable fin fully wetted by nanoliquid has been modeled in the presence of natural convection and radiation condition, and the derived energy equation has been resolved numerically by Runge Kutta Fehlberg method.
59 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied thermal efficiency and comprehensive performance index to investigate the cooling characteristics of the fin structures and nanofluids in the heat exchange system and found that thermal efficiency increases with the fin height.
50 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-object optimization study to find the best bargain between cycle's efficiency and heat exchanger's size is carried out using five different fin configurations (straight, zigzag, C-shaped, S-shaped and airfoil fin channel configuration) and inlet Reynolds number as a design variable.
47 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical analysis of the buoyantly convective non-Newtonian fluid flow equipped in hexagonal shaped cavity is presented, where a uniformly heated T-shaped fin is embedded at lower wall of hexagonal cavity.
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a wire finned heat exchanger compared to rectangular finned and micro-channel heat exchangers was investigated in terms of water uptake and surface temperature at various fin height (3.5, 7 and 14 mm), spacing (1, 2 and 3.5
TL;DR: In this article, the melting of phase change material (PCM) inside a rectangular enclosure, possibly finned and inclined, is studied numerically and the application of this work is related to the temperature control of a finned PV panel filled with PCM and installed at different tilt angles.
TL;DR: In this paper, the combustion characteristics and thermal performance of micro combustor with pin fin arrays were numerically investigated by employing detail H2/O2 reaction mechanism, and it was shown that the micro combustors with staggered pin fin array exhibits the highest average temperature and heat flux of external wall, while the micro combustionor with in-line pin-fin arrays displays the most uniform temperature distribution of internal wall.
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of punching a rectangular winglet having hole from fin surface, on the heat transfer and flow resistance characteristics in a fin-tube heat exchanger was investigated in two configurations namely, common flow down and common flow up.
TL;DR: In this paper, a three dimensional numerical study is performed to evaluate thermo-hydraulic performance of fin-and-tube heat exchangers equipped with rectangular winglet vortex generators (RWVGs) with circular punched holes for Reynolds number varying from 400 to 2000.
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance characteristics of a multilayer thermoelectric generator are investigated for the exhaust heat recovery of a heavy-duty diesel engine, and the potential for the power output is estimated based on the world harmonised transient cycle.
TL;DR: In this paper, the surface of the microgap is enhanced with a staggered array of micro pin-fins, which are etched as cubic columns of 100μm size and arranged in a staggered arrangement with 400μm pitch in both transverse and longitudinal directions.
TL;DR: In this article, a metal foam and pin fin hybrid heat sink (MFPFH heat sink) was proposed for thermal management of high powered electronic devices, and the thermal performance ratio was evaluated under local thermal non-equilibrium condition.
TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal aspects of non-Newtonian flow field manifested with the buoyant convection effect in a closed cavities is not abundantly investigated as yet due to complexity of boundary constraints.
TL;DR: In this article, a novel concentrated solar thermal collector with evacuated tube is studied, where the focus is the optimization of cost and performance in respect to commercially available medium temperature collectors (100-300°C) using thermal and economic index of heat generation system also known as Levelized Cost of Heat.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the mixed convection heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluid-structure interaction (FSI) inside an open trapezoidal cavity, where the base of the cavity is fixed at constant temperature while the other walls are adiabatic.
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical simulation of a fin structure in finned tube heat exchangers is presented, showing that dimple turbulators exhibit excellent potential for thermo-hydraulic performance enhancement.
Abstract: As a new type of fin structure in finned tube heat exchangers, dimple turbulators exhibit excellent potential for thermo-hydraulic performance enhancement. A three-dimensional numerical sim...
TL;DR: In this article, the combination of conventional pin fin and lattice structure is used to propose a new design of micro latticed pin fin, and the thermal performance and the impacts of the flow states and morphological types on the new design are investigated through fluid-thermal coupled numerical approach.
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison is made of catalyst filled plate-fin and spiral-wound heat exchangers by using a flexible and robust modeling framework for multi-stream heat exchanger that incorporates conversion of ortho-to para-hydrogen in the hydrogen feed stream, accurate thermophysical models and a distributed resolution of all streams and wall temperatures.
TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D lung pattern is designed at certain heights on the plate surface by using biomimetic approach in first time to improve heat transfer and pressure drop of the PHE.
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical study of the ice storage process in finned shell-tube ice storage (STIS) units, with a focus on the special solidification behavior using water as the phase-change material (PCM), is presented.
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of thermal management on performance of a 1 1/kW edge-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack without external humidification is studied.
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of flow rate, heat flux density, fluid inlet temperature and double side heating power on thermal performance in embedded micro-pin fin chip using HFE7100 as the coolant.