Evaluation of rate-determining step of methane hydrate decomposition by measurement of transient heat and mass transfer near solid–gas interface

Y Kanda, H Komatsu, J Okajima, S Maruyama… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The transient heat and mass transfer near a methane hydrate decomposition interface were
quantitatively measured to evaluate the rate-determining factors of dissociation with high …

Optical method for simultaneous high-resolution measurement of heat and fluid flow: The case of Rayleigh-Bénard convection

JF Torres, Y Zhao, S Xu, Z Li, A Komiya - Physical review applied, 2020 - APS
An optical system combining phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) and particle image
velocimetry (PIV) is built and verified with simultaneous two-dimensional temperature-and …

Visualization of methane hydrate decomposition interface and analyses of decomposition rate and interfacial configuration

Y Kanda, J Okajima, S Maruyama, A Komiya - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Composed of methane gas and cage-like water molecules, methane hydrate is expected to
have innovative engineering applications, such as gas transportation. In this study, a …