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This project related to gas purification according to difference in the deposition point in the fludized bed.The main reason for choosing fluidized bed is increasing overall heat transfer coefficient compare in to other heat exchangers. Separation process, by cooling the wall causes the self- deposition gas phase shifts to solid phase. Solid formed on the wall, act as an insulating layer and greatly reduces the heat transfer. To solve this problem, the fluidized bed system is offered because fluid particles in addition to remove the insulating layer, improving convection heat transfer coefficient . Laboratory tests show the feasibility of preventing the formation of insulating layer by... 

Double channel and coreless induction furnaces are used extensively in many processing industries due mainly to their good heating efficiency, high production rate, clean working environments and relatively low operating costs. The study of heat transfer treatment and evaluation of the heat losses of these furnaces becomes an important issue in melting industries. In this dissertation, a heat transfer analysis will be performed for an induction furnace and heat losses by conduction, convection, Eddy-Current and Hysteresis in a furnace structure, and radiation from the body of a specific induction furnace will be modeled considering the symmetry of the furnace chamber. The models presented in... 

In this work, a numerical investigation on shell side performance of a continuous helical baffle helixchanger along with smooth and helically ribbed tubes using CFD commercial code, Fluent, has been performed. The results of simulation for this type of exchanger were compared to a similar heat exchanger with segmental baffles. The geometries are created and meshed using Solidworks and Ansys Meshing softwares, respectively. Mesh generation is carried out using unstructured tetrahedral type elements. Element size (or number of elements) are chosen in such a manner that maintain accuracy and reliability of results in a reasonable run time. Simulation validation were carried out by comparison of... 

Heat transfer in porous media has recently become an important subject in mechanical engineering. Heat transfer in porous media is central in many applications involving industrial devices (chemical engineering, heat exchangers, nuclear reactor, etc...) as well as complex geological formations (in situ combustion and pyrolysis, geothermal sites, etc...). On track to achieve heat transfer methods and heat transfer coefficients of porous materials, this investigation describes the design process of fabrication and experimental analysis of calculation the conduction heat transfer coefficient of the uniform porous materials. We report on thermal conductivity measurements performed on uniform... 

In this study, a fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model for two-phase fluid flow and heat transport in fractured/fracturing porous media is introduced using the extended finite element method (XFEM) for numerical solution. The subject is important in the environmental and industrial fields such as hydraulic fracturing in petroleum industry, CO2 geo-sequestration, geothermal energy extraction and radioactive waste disposal in unsaturated porous media. In the fractured porous media, there are couplings of traction and heat and mass transfer between the fracture space and the surrounding media. Therefore, consideration of the fracture geometry explicitly in the modeling is important to... 

Tomography offers a unique opportunity to unravel the complexities of the internal structure of an object without the need to invade it. There are various methods for this reason, in which all of them occupy wave or energy,ffiduction for imaging inside an object. Since the tomography plays a vital role in medicine and industry and present methods have limitation and difficulties to operate, the necessity for developing it has been inevitable. In this thesis a new tomography method has been presented in which uses inverse heat conduction for estimating unknown object with heat conductivity k2 inside a known domain with heat conductivity k 1 • For this purpose temperature is measured at... 

The main idea of this investigation is to increase heat transfer rate by increasing flow circulation of working fluid. By placing additional branches in the evaporator section, secondary bubble pumps were created which improved the circulation of fluid inside PHP. This research was implemented in two distinct phases. In the first phase, the novelty was implemented on a single turn PHP and in the second phase, the same procedure was implemented on a 4-turn PHP. In order to investigate the impact of these additional branches, two similar heat pipes were fabricated. One of them was the conventional PHP and the other had additional branches and is named additional branch PHP (AB-PHP). Thermal... 

This paper numerically studies the convection heat transfer enhancement of a developing two dimensional laminar flow in a pipe partially filled with porous materials. One of the most important effects of the systems with porous materials in them, is that they can improve some heat transfer components if they be used in a proper way. This study has been performed under both local thermal equilibrium (LTE) and local thermal non-equilibrium (LTNE) conditions. Two energy equations are used in non-thermal equilibrium condition between fluid and porous material. Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model is used to model the flow inside the porous medium. The effects of different parameters such as, Darcy... 

The wellbore instability increases the cost of drilling operations due to problems such as pipe sticking and lost circulation, so it is important to find the optimal well path. In this research, building a one-dimensional geomechanical model is investigated, and then the wellbore stability during drilling in different layers is evaluated. The geomechanical model is constructed using available data (well log data, mud logging unit data, and drilling reports) in a study reservoir and the optimal well path is determined by the appropriate inclination and azimuth using the geomechanical properties of the field and the stress regime, taking into account the wellbore stability and shear failure... 

Modern microelectronic systems generate a large amount of heat which must be transferred out of the system without excessive temperature rise. Conventional forced air convection and microchannel cooling plates have reached their performance limits Nanofiuids are proposed as an innovative way to solve the problem. A nanofiuid is nanoscale solid particles dispersed in a traditional heat transfer liquid. Some studies show an anomalous increase in the thermal conductivity for stationary nanofiuids. However, there are only few previous studies on the convection heat transfer rate and viscosity of nanofiuids. Both convection and stationary measurements of the thermal conductivity are widely... 

Transport phenomena i.e. momentum, heat and mass transfer are occurring inside the eye constantly. Any disturbance in each of these could lead to diseases or ocular problems. Konwledge of transport phenomena can help surgeons and specialists to identify problems more easily and cure the problems effectively. Further more, these phenomena have a great impact on drug delivery inside the eye. Therefore deep understanding of them makes investigation of different therapies easy and convenient. Consequently this understanding could lead to choose the best method and route of administration available. A precise model which is in consistence with the real human eye has been developed and the ocular... 

Fully developed fluid flow and heat transfer is numerically investigated in micro-channels. There are many techniques to intensify heat transfer for internal flows, such as: increasing Reynolds number, extending surface area of channel wall and also disrupting the boundary layer thickness on the wall. Among these, extension wall surface area is a common technique. There are several ways to extend surface area including finned, slotted, chemically etched, grooved as well as porous media adhered wall surface. One other method that we work on it is modifying wall cross-section and usage of uniform suction porous media. The governing equations include the momentum equation of the core region... 

Due to the features like small dimensions, low manufacturing cost and low power consumption, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are widely utilized in engineering applications. Many experimental investigations have indicated that the mechanical behavior of constructive microelements of these systems isn’t predictable by classical continuum theory. Therefore, to analyze the behavior of microelements, the non-classical continuum theories which can capture size effects should be utilized. On the other hand, various experimental observations have confirmed that thermoelastic damping (TED) is a dominant source of energy dissipation in microelements, in contrast to the non-small parts and... 

We investigate heat transfer between parallel plates separated by liquid argon using three-dimensional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations incorporating with 6-12 Lennard-Jones potential between molecule pairs. We use thermal walls constructed from the oscillating molecules, which are connected to their original positions using linear spring forces. Channel walls are maintained at specific temperatures using a recently developed interactive thermal wall model. This approach is much more effective than the one which uses a fixed lattice wall modeling to simulate the heat transfer between wall and fluid. Heat flux and temperature distribution in nanochannels are calculated for channel height... 

Numerous three-dimensional models of laminar flow and heat transfer in rough microchannels are developed and analyzed numerically to compare the effect of roughness elements on the thermal and hydrodynamic characteristics. In these models, the rough surfaces are configured with rectangular, triangular and sinusoidal roughness elements. Here, the effects of the roughness height, roughness element width, roughness element pitch, channel separation, Reynolds number and both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid on pressure drop and heat transfer in rough microchannels are all investigated and discussed.H2 thermal boundary condition is considered for all peripheral walls and power law model also is... 

In this thesis, desublimation (deposition) of xenon gas has been studied. Through the past decades, desublimation, became one of the important methods of separation. High purity products and applicability when common methods of separation, as distillation, are not applicable, make desublimation more efficient. Heat transfer phenomenological study of direct phase change of gas to solid (desublimation), evaluation of variation of different parameters during the phase change and finally comparison of experimental results of desublimation and mathematical modeling data are the main considerations in present thesis. Because of low cost and accessibility and heat transfer phenomenological study... 

In the present work, the experiments were carried out for two types of PAM (3330 and 3630) with three distinct concentrations (25, 40 and 55 ppm) and TiO_2-water nanofluid for four concentrations (1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3 vol. %), and the Nusselt number and friction factor for each of them expressed separately. The Reynolds number was in the range from 11000 to 21000. The steady state turbulent convective heat transfer and friction factor of the combination of TiO_2-water nanofluid and polymer 3330 in the coiled tube were investigated. The effects of the Reynolds number for 2 vol. % nanoparticles which consists of 25 ppm PAM (3330) determined at the constant temperature of 24°C. It was observed... 

Mold/metal interfacial heat transfer coefficient (IHTC) is the most important parameter that influences the solidification and the mechanical properties of a solidified product. The present work focuses on the determination and evaluation of pressure effect on interfacial heat transfer coefficient from the experimental cooling curves during unidirectional solidification of A356 alloy against water cooled Gray iron mold (chill). For this purpose, inverse heat conduction method is used. The results showed that IHTC is not constant, but varies with time, temperature and pressure during solidification. IHTC variation is related to coherency and critical solid fraction during... 

The computer simulation of freezing patterns in castings has done much to broaden our understanding of casting and mold system design. The structural integrity of shaped castings is closely related to the time–temperature history during solidification, and the use of casting simulation could do much to increase this knowledge in the foundry industry. However, some uncertainties must be eradicated, particularly heat transfer at the metal/mold interface. The accurate knowledge of interfacial heat transfer coefficients is necessary for accurate modeling of castings. The present work focuses on the determination of transient mold–environment and metal–mold heat transfer coefficients during...