Advanced Computational Methods and Experiments in Heat Transfer

Contents Section 1: Heat transfer in energy producing devices The effect of heat transfer on the polarizations within an intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell; Enhanced heat transfer characteristics and performance of composite thermoelectric devices; Numerical study of the flow inside an alternator: application to the thermal optimization of the machine; Thermal invisibility through geometrical transformation: a segmented cloaking approach; Offset Strip Fin nanocomposite polymer heat exchanger development Section 2: Heat transfer enhancement (Special session organised by H. H. Al-Kayiem) Numerical simulation of solar chimney integrated with exhaust of thermal power plant; Experimental study of cold inflow and its effect on draft of a chimney Section 3: Heat transfer problems An experimental study of a film cooling with swirling flow on the endwall of a high loaded 1st nozzle; Three-dimensional boundary element method model in the frequency domain for simulating dynamic heat conduction; Analysis of the complementary energy losses of a high temperature gas to gas heat exchanger based on a solid intermediate medium; Numerical software for the inverse estimation of the temperature-dependent thermal properties in heat conduction; Application of 3D heat diffusion to detect embedded empty cracks Section 4: Natural and forced convection and radiation Simulation of a full scale Trombe wall system; Radiation-corrective gas temperature measurement in a circular channel; Heat transfer characteristics for inclined twin-jet impingement; The influence of solar radiation on the distribution of temperatures in historic masonry Section 5: Multiphase flow heat transfer Nanofluids - chances and illusions; Roll-bond condenser in a two-phase thermosyphon loop for power electronics cooling; EROI for the production of methane from hydrates by hot water injection; Modelling of evaporation and dissolution of multicomponent oil droplet in shallow water; Analysis of boiling Section 6: Modelling and experiments Thermo-electric model of a pyroelectric detector; Some numerical methods of thermal dosimetry for applications in bioelectromagnetics; Effect of thermal insulation on hygric and thermal conditions in the envelopes of renovated historical buildings; Computational modelling and experimental verification of the effective thermal conductivity of hollow bricks; Thermal modelling of the Wing Anti Ice System in modern aircrafts; Experimental approach for exploring the characteristics of convective vortices as an alternative green" energy concept; Detection of lean blowout in a premixed gas-turbine model combustor based on nonlinear dynamics; Finite element predictions of residual stresses due to heat transfer during welding; Inverse determination of the heat transfer coefficient distribution on a steel plate cooled by a water spray nozzle