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Heat transfer and fouling characteristics during falling film evaporation in a vertical sintered tube by Zhao, Limin, Tang, Weiyu, Wang, Lei, Li, Wei, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…Heat transfer and fouling performance of water in a sintered porous stainless-steel tube were investigated experimentally. The test tube has a porous tube wall…”
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Numerical study of flow reversal during bubble growth and confinement of flow boiling in microchannels by Lin, Yuhao, Luo, Yang, Li, Wei, Li, Junye, Sun, Zhichuan, Cao, Yanlong, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•Bubble growth and confinement in one of the two nearby microchannels is investigated numerically.•The flow reversal caused by bubble elongation and flow…”
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Analysis of thermal performance and pressure loss of subcooled flow boiling in manifold microchannel heat sink by Luo, Yang, Li, Wei, Zhang, Jingzhi, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•A new solver involving S-CLSVOF method for two-phase flow is developed based on OpenFOAM.•Conjugate heat transfer between fluid and solid is taken into…”
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Continuous flow solar thermal pasteurization of drinking water: Methods, devices, microbiology, and analysis by Abraham, J.P., Plourde, B.D., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…The ability to simply and robustly pasteurize drinking water would present tremendous worldwide human health benefits. Ingestion of unsafe drinking water is a…”
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Flow separation in a diverging conical duct: Effect of Reynolds number and divergence angle by Sparrow, E.M., Abraham, J.P., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…Fluid flows in passages whose cross-sectional area increases in the streamwise direction are prone to separation. Here, the flow in a conical diffuser fed by a…”
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Nanofluids and critical heat flux, experimental and analytical study by Golubovic, M.N., Madhawa Hettiarachchi, H.D., Worek, W.M., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…In recent years, nanofluids have been attracting significant attention in the heat transfer research community. These fluids are obtained by suspending…”
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Numerical simulation of laminar breakdown and subsequent intermittent and turbulent flow in parallel-plate channels: Effects of inlet velocity profile and turbulence intensity by Minkowycz, W.J., Abraham, J.P., Sparrow, E.M.

“…The nature of flow development in a parallel plate channel has been investigated by making use of a newly developed model of intermittency. That model, taken…”
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On departure from local thermal equilibrium in porous media due to a rapidly changing heat source: the Sparrow number by Minkowycz, W.J., Haji-Sheikh, A., Vafai, K.

“…Local thermal equilibrium is an often-used hypothesis when studying heat transfer in porous media. Examination of non-equilibrium phenomena shows that this…”
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Performance comparison of the mass transfer models with internal reforming for solid oxide fuel cell anodes by Wang, Shuping, Worek, William M., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…In this work, models describing multicomponent gas diffusion process in an electrode of a porous solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) anode coupled with internal…”
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Green's function solution of temperature field for flow in porous passages by Haji-Sheikh, A., Minkowycz, W.J., Sparrow, E.M.

“…Recently, the heat transfer in porous passages has received attention from many investigators. The Green's function solution method can serve as a powerful…”
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Heat transfer to flow through porous passages using extended weighted residuals method—a Green’s function solution by Haji-Sheikh, A., Sparrow, E.M., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…The Green’s function solution method is a direct and powerful tool for solving heat transfer problems associated with flow through passages. It is also an…”
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of forced condensation flow on a horizontal cold surface in the presence of a non-condensable gas by Zhang, Chaoyang, Cheng, Ping, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•A novel multi-component/multi-phase LB model with thermal phase change is proposed.•Laminar forced condensation in presence of non-condensable gas is…”
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Enhancement of flow boiling heat transfer in microchannel using micro-fin and micro-cavity surfaces by Lin, Yuhao, Luo, Yang, Li, Wei, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•A numerical investigation into the flow boiling process in a microchannel with a micro-structured surface was performed.•Micro-fin, micro-cavity, and smooth…”
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Numerical simulation data for assessment of particle-laden turbulent flow models by Sengupta, K., Russell, K., Minkowycz, W.J., Mashayek, F.

“…This paper presents a collection of numerical simulation data which provides a reference for the assessment of various statistical/stochastic models in…”
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Conjugate heat transfer analysis of bubble growth during flow boiling in a rectangular microchannel by Lin, Yuhao, Li, Junye, Luo, Yang, Li, Wei, Luo, Xing, Kabelac, Stephan, Cao, Yanlong, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•The conjugate heat transfer in flow boiling simulation plays an important role and cannot be ignored.•Various bottom wall materials and thicknesses are…”
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Experimental study on condensation and evaporation flow inside horizontal three dimensional enhanced tubes by Li, Wei, Chen, JingXiang, Zhu, Hua, Kukulka, David J., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…Experimental investigations of tube side condensation and evaporation in two 3-D enhanced heat transfer (2EHT) tubes were compared to the performance of a…”
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Three-dimensional numerical simulation of saturated annular flow boiling in a narrow rectangular microchannel by Luo, Yang, Li, Wei, Zhou, Kan, Sheng, Kuang, Shao, Shuai, Zhang, Zhengjiang, Du, Jingcai, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•Simulation of three dimensional annular flow boiling in the narrow rectangular microchannel is achieved.•Simulation results are in good agreement with…”
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Tissue burns due to contact between a skin surface and highly conducting metallic media in the presence of inter-tissue boiling by Abraham, John P., Stark, John, Gorman, John, Sparrow, Ephraim, Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•Calculations to determine the skin temperatures after contact with hot metals.•Included inter-tissue phase change (evaporation).•The calculations are found to…”
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Internal-flow Nusselt numbers for the low-Reynolds-number end of the laminar-to-turbulent transition regime by Abraham, J.P., Sparrow, E.M., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…For heat exchange devices that operate in the low-Reynolds-number end of the laminar-to-turbulent transition regime, logical design is thwarted by the absence…”
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Effect of fan-generated swirl on turbulent heat transfer and fluid flow in a pipe by Gorman, J.M., Sparrow, E.M., Ilamparuthi, S., Minkowycz, W.J.

“…•Fan-generated swirl.•Decay of swirl in a round pipe.•Swirl-based heat transfer enhancement.•Swirl-related wall shear stress. Fan-generated swirl can be…”
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