A new cooling scheme is proposed where the primary working fluid flowing through a micro-channel heat sink is pre-cooled to low temperature using an indirect refrigeration cooling system. Cooling performance was explored using HFE 7100 as working fluid and four different micro-channel sizes. High-speed video imaging was employed to help explain the complex interrelated influences of hydraulic d...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the temperature changes in the dental pulp associated with equine dental procedures using power grinding equipment. DESIGN A matrix experimental design with replication on the same sample was followed to allow the following independent variables to be assessed: horse age (young or old), tooth type (premolar or molar), powered grinding instrument (rotating disc or die gri...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) CoolSim MATLAB/Simulink modeling framework was expanded by including a newly developed coolant loop solution method aimed at reducing the simulation effort for complex thermal management systems. The new approach does not require the user to identify specific coolant loops and their flow. The user only needs to connect the fluid network elemen...

A two‐dimensional model investigating the hydrogen charging process in a combination reactor filled with both LaNi4.3Al0.4Mn0.3 and 2LiNH2‐1.1MgH2‐0.1LiBH4‐3wt.%ZrCoH3 materials has been developed. The selected configuration is a cylindrical reactor of 32 cm of diameter where the MeH is filled in annular tubes separated from the complex hydride bed by a gas permeable layer. The diffusion of hy...

Active cooling technologies such as heat pipes, loop heat pipes (LHPs), thermosyphons, loop thermosyphons (LTSs), and pumped singleor two-phase coolant loops require specialized modeling treatment. However, these 1D ducted systems are largely overlooked in 3D thermal modeling tools. The increasing popularity of CFD and FEM models and generation of analysis data from 3D CAD data are strong trend...

To analyze the thermoelectric power generation for sports utility vehicle (SUV) application, a novel thermoelectric generator (TEG) based on low-temperature Bi2Te3 thermoelectric modules (TEMs) and a chaos-shaped brass heat exchanger is constructed. The temperature distribution of the TEG is analyzed based on an experimental setup, and the temperature uniformity optimization method is performed...

Simulations of the thermal and dynamical evolution of primordial gas typically focus on the role played byH2 cooling. H2 is the dominant coolant in low-density primordial gas and it is usually assumed that it remains dominant at high densities. However, H2 is not an effective coolant at high densities, owing to the low critical density at which it reaches local thermodynamic equilibrium and to ...

ARIES-CS is a 1000 MW(electric) compact stellarator conceptual fusion power plant design. This power plant design contains many innovative features to improve the physics, engineering, and safety performance of the stellarator concept. ARIES-CS utilizes a dualcooled lead lithium blanket that employs low-activation ferritic steel as a structural material, with the first wall cooled by helium and...

This specification is proposed for a computational problem that aims to investigate the outlet core coolant temperature behaviours induced by beam interruptions of varying duration in an XADS-type system. In order to define the common application for the proposed computational benchmark, fuel channel geometry, power data, material properties, heat transfer correlations and the point kinetics ar...