Recuperators for micro gas turbines: A review

G Xiao, T Yang, H Liu, D Ni, ML Ferrari, M Li, Z Luo… - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Micro gas turbines are a promising technology for distributed power generation because of
their compact size, low emissions, low maintenance, low noise, high reliability and multi-fuel …

Progress of constructal theory in China over the past decade

L Chen, H Feng, Z Xie, F Sun - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
Constructal theory has been widely used in performance optimizations of various problems.
Among these problems, engineering problem is a hot topic for constructal theory. The …

Progress in study on constructal theory and its applications

LG Chen - Science China Technological Sciences, 2012 - Springer
The emergence and development of constructal theory, which has been a new discipline
branch to research sorts of structures in nature and engineering, are reviewed. The core of …

Melting and solidification of a phase change material with constructal tree-shaped fins for thermal energy storage

A Shukla, K Kant, PH Biwole, R Pitchumani… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Considering the increasing gap between energy demand and clean energy supply
availability, there is a strong need to impart novel design structures to effectively utilize the …

Second law thermodynamic study of heat exchangers: A review

K Manjunath, SC Kaushik - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Heat exchangers are thermal systems which are used extensively, have a major role in
energy conservation aspect and preventing global warming. This paper is based on reviews …

Transport phenomena and properties in treelike networks

P Xu, AP Sasmito, B Yu… - Applied …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Treelike structures abound in natural as well as man-made transport systems, which have
fascinated multidisciplinary researchers to study the transport phenomena and properties …

Multi-objective constructal optimization for marine condensers

H Feng, W Tang, L Chen, J Shi, Z Wu - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
A marine condenser with exhausted steam as the working fluid is researched in this paper.
Constructal designs of the condenser are numerically conducted based on single and multi …

Constructal design of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger for organic fluid evaporation process

H Feng, L Chen, Z Wu, Z Xie - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
A shell-and-tube heat exchanger for organic fluid evaporation process is investigated in this
paper. A complex function considering the heat transfer and fluid flow performances of the …

Effect of microchannel heat sink configuration on the thermal performance and pumping power

MP Vasilev, RS Abiev, R Kumar - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a computational modeling of ten different configurations of
microchannel heat sink (MCHS) with single phase liquid flow in order to compare their …

Recent applications of advances in microchannel heat exchangers and multi-scale design optimization

Y Fan, L Luo - Heat Transfer Engineering, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a literature review of the recent research advances and applications of
microchannel (from 1 μm to 1 mm) heat exchangers (μHXs) is presented. After a brief …