Basic understanding of the process of coolant heat transfer inside an engine is an indispensable prerequisite to devise an infallible cooling strategy. Coolant flow and its heat transfer affect the cooling efficiency, thermal load of heated components, and thermal efficiency of a diesel engine. An efficient approach to studying cooling system for diesel engine is a 3D computational fluid dynami...

The fractal nature of hydrodynamic features during nucleate boiling is illustrated in this study. Earlier reports in the literature explored the fractal nature of the thermal features in pool boiling. In these studies typically the time-delay technique was used to obtain chaos quantifiers in boiling from wall temperature fluctuation measurements. In this study experiments were performed at diff...

Boiling crisis experiments are carried out in the vicinity of the liquid-gas critical point of H2. A magnetic gravity compensation setup is used to enable nucleate boiling at near critical pressure. The measurements of the critical heat flux that defines the threshold for the boiling crisis are carried out as a function of the distance from the critical point. The obtained power law behavior an...

A newly simplified microstructure model of metal foams was carried out for flow boiling heat transfer in metal-foam filled tube. Fin analysis, heat transfer network and superposition correlation were adopted to obtain the equivalent heat transfer coefficient for flow boiling. Based on annular pattern, fluid can be divided into vapor region in the center of the tube and liquid region near the wa...

Conduction and single-phase convective heat transfer are well understood phenomena: analytical models [1] and empirical correlations [2] allow capturing the thermal behavior of plate-type fuels or heaters in contact with a single-phase coolant. On the other hand, transient boiling heat transfer is a scarcely studied and much less understood phenomenon. Although, earlier studies have shown that ...