Thermal and structure analyses of high concentrator solar cell under confined jet impingement cooling

EM Abo-Zahhad, S Ookawara, A Radwan… - Energy Conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The high solar light concentration onto the photovoltaic cell leads to extremely high cell
temperature, which significantly decreases the cell efficiency and degrades its lifetime due to …

Effects of flow inlet angle on flow maldistribution and thermal performance of water cooled mini-channel heat sink

S Kumar, PK Singh - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
The cooling capacity of the mini-channel heat sink can be increased by making the flow
distribution uniform through all the parallel mini-channels. The present study proposes a …

[HTML][HTML] Flow maldistribution and its effect on the thermal performance of miniaturized devices: a perspective from thermal boundary condition

X Guo, Z Li, Y Zhai, H Wang - Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to their high compactness, high-pressure resistance and superior heat transfer
capability, compact heat exchangers and microchannel heat sinks are an integral part and …

Eco-efficient vehicle cooling modules with integrated diffusers—thermal, energy, and environmental analyses

J Faraj, K Chahine, M Mortada, T Lemenand… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The automotive domain is a very good candidate for energy management, particularly due to
the huge amounts of energy lost by heat through exhaust and water-cooling systems. This …

A novel approach to manage temperature non-uniformity in minichannel heat sink by using intentional flow maldistribution

S Kumar, PK Singh - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Flow maldistribution is an uncalled phenomenon in water-cooled heat sink and accountable
for the depreciation in thermal performance of the same. However, this study is proposed to …

Optimization of inlet part of a microchannel ceramic heat exchanger using surrogate model coupled with genetic algorithm

H Shi, T Ma, W Chu, Q Wang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
High temperature resistance and corrosion resistance make ceramic materials available for
heat exchangers operating under high temperature or harsh chemical conditions. And the …

Two-phase flow oscillation and distribution in parallel channels during R1233zd (E) subcooled flow boiling: A numerical study

Y Huang, K Chen, X Tang, Y Fang - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
The uniformity of two-phase flow distribution in a multi-channel heat sink is important for heat
transfer performance. During flow boiling, flow oscillations such as transient reverse flow …

A new multiscale modeling framework for investigating thermally-induced flow maldistribution in multi-stream plate-fin heat exchangers

R Niroomand, MH Saidi, SK Hannani - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
Multi-stream Plate-fin heat exchangers (MSPFHEs) are among the most efficient heat
exchangers in energy-based industries. They should be carefully designed to have …

Numerical study on a novel hyperbolic inlet header in straight-channel printed circuit heat exchanger

W Chu, K Bennett, J Cheng, Y Chen, Q Wang - Applied Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) can be used as the recuperator and condenser in
the supercritical CO 2 (sCO 2) Brayton cycle of fast cooled reactor (FCR) systems. Most …

Prediction of flow maldistribution in printed circuit heat exchanger

T Ma, P Zhang, H Shi, Y Chen, Q Wang - International Journal of Heat and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is widely used in a variety of extremely high
temperature and high pressure applications. Since the PCHE is a typical multi-channel heat …