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Competition between cooling and shortwave radiation in shaping near-surface convection in pelagic waters of Lake Geneva

When lake surface waters above the temperature of maximum density 4◦C cools, the verysurface fluid parcels become denser than their neighbours below. The latter process leads to a gravitationally unstable density distribution which may trigger ‘free convec ...

2021

Options to correct local turbulent flux measurements for large-scale fluxes using an approach based on large-eddy simulation

Peter Andreas Brugger

The eddy-covariance method provides the most direct estimates for fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere. However, dispersive fluxes can occur in the presence of secondary circulations, which can inherently not be captured by such single-tower measur ...

2021

Fokker-Planck-Poisson kinetics: Multi-phase flow beyond equilibrium

Mohsen Sadr

Multi-phase phenomena remain at the heart of many challenging fluid dynamics problems. Molecular fluxes at the interface determine the fate of neighboring phases, yet their closure far from the continuum needs to be modeled. Along the hierarchy of kinetic ...

2020

Optimum ratio of hydrophobic to hydrophilic areas of biphilic surfaces in thermal fluid systems involving boiling

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Tom Larsen, Ahmad Reza Motezakker

Pool boiling has a high heat removal capability and is considered as one of the most effective cooling methods due to utilization of latent heat of vaporization. Surface wettability plays a key role in boiling heat transfer since it controls the contact li ...

2019

Large-scale and meso-scale surface heat flux patterns of Lake Geneva

Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

Diverse studies have confirmed the adverse impact of global climate change in lakes. In order to establish effective water quality management policies, it is essential to understand how the heat exchange between the atmosphere and the lake evolves under th ...

EPFL2018

Improving surface heat flux estimation for a large lake through model optimization and two-point calibration: The case of Lake Geneva

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Damien Bouffard, Andrea Cimatoribus, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

Net Surface Heat Flux (SurHF) was estimated from 2008 to 2014 for Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France), using long‐term temperature depth profiles at two locations, hourly maps of reanalysis meteorological data from a numerical weather model and lake surface w ...

2018

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drops of R1234ze(E) in a Silicon Micro-pin Fin Evaporator

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini, Chiara Falsetti

The development of newer and more efficient cooling techniques to sustain the increasing power density of high-performance computing systems is becoming one of the major challenges in the development of microelectronics. In this framework, two-phase coolin ...

Asme2017

Instability of flow boiling in paralell microchannels

Heat exchangers are key components of energy conversion systems, including HVAC&R equipment. The compact microchannel design of a heat exchanger (MCHX) allows for significant reduction of its volume, weight, and raw material, in comparison to conventional ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2017

Experimental evaluation of the thermal performances of a thermosyphon cooling system rejecting heat by natural and forced convection

John Richard Thome, Filippo Cataldo

In the present paper, a closed-loop thermosyphon cooling system for power electronics has been developed and tested. The evaporator is a multi-microchannel heat sink designed for high heat fluxes. The power electronics module is emulated by four independen ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

High resolution infrared measurements of single-phase flow of R245fa and R236fa within a compact plate heat exchanger, Part 2: Heat transfer results

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

In the second article of the present two-part paper, upward single-phase heat transfer within a compact plate heat exchanger was investigated experimentally. The experimental setup, the data reduction technique and pressure drop results were presented in P ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

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