A review of advances in freeze desalination and future prospects

A Najim - Npj clean water, 2022 - nature.com
Freeze desalination (FD) has several benefits compared to vaporization-based and
membrane-based desalination methods. The FD process needs approximately 1/7th of the …

Three-dimensional double-diffusive convection and macrosegregation during non-equilibrium solidification of binary mixtures

S Chakraborty, P Dutta - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2003 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional transient mathematical model (following a fixed-grid enthalpy-based
continuum formulation) is used to study the interaction of double-diffusive natural convection …

A similarity solution for heat transfer analysis during progressive freeze-concentration based desalination

A Najim, S Krishnan - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
A mathematical model was developed to obtain a similarity solution for heat transfer analysis
during progressive freeze-concentration-based desalination. The model considered the …

On the thermodynamic optimization of power plants with heat transfer and fluid flow irreversibilities

Y Ikegami, A Bejan - 1998 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This note addresses the current debate on the correctness of power plant models and
analyses of the type published by Curzon and Ahlborn (1975) among others. Such models …

A similarity solution for the solidification of a multicomponent alloy

VR Voller - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 1997 - Elsevier
A similarity solution for a multicomponent solidification model is introduced. The model
includes a complete coupling of solute and temperature fields in the mushy region, a …

A numerical scheme for solidification of an alloy

VR Voller - Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
A Numerical Scheme for Solidification of an Alloy Page 1 ~ Pergamon Canadian Metallurgical
Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3-4, pp. 169-177, 1998 © 1998Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy …

Melting and solidification

A Faghri, Y Zhang, A Faghri, Y Zhang - Fundamentals of Multiphase Heat …, 2020 - Springer
Solid–liquid phase changes, including melting and solidification, are treated in this chapter,
starting with the classification of solid–liquid phase changes and generalized boundary …

Solid fraction in dendritic solidification of a liquid

L Makkonen - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
When a liquid is cooled below its equilibrium solidification temperature the solidification
takes place as growing dendrites of microscopic scale. An essential feature of the material …

Solidification of Sn–Pb alloys: Experiments on the influence of the initial concentration

L Hachani, K Zaidat, B Saadi, XD Wang… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
A comparative study among solidification experiments for three selected alloys (Sn–3 wt.%
Pb, Sn–6.5 wt.% Pb and Sn–10 wt.% Pb) was conducted on a benchmark experiment model …

Crystal growth and its morphology in the mushy zone

H Yoshioka, Y Tada, Y Hayashi - Acta Materialia, 2004 - Elsevier
In the solidification of multicomponent alloys, a mushy zone appears between the solid and
liquid regions and promotes stable solidification by accepting the rejected solute regionally …