The Fluids & Heat Transfer group conducts research on experimental, numerical and theoretical modelling and analysis of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics. Our research activities cover ...

In practice, the temperature difference between the hot and cold fluids varies along the heat exchanger, and it is logarithmic in nature, as shown in Figure 4. Figure 4: The temperature difference ...

Abstract Energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) are the key equipment to fresh air ventilation, which is helpful for the control of respiratory diseases like COVID-19. In this paper, design optimization ...

The development of low-cost, high-performance, and compact heat exchangers for extreme environmental conditions will benefit multiple sectors, especially applications in power electronics and ...

COMSOL Multiphysics environment for heat transfer and fluid flow simulation (a) imported CAD gyroid unit-cell of size 4.6mm x 4.6mm x 4.6mm and wall thickness of 300um (b) physical model depicting ...

[21]. According to [22], the heat transfer characteristics in coiled tubes are determined by the peculiarities of the axial velocity distribution and of secondary flow as shown in Figure 1. Secondary ...