This research was conducted to study the performances of the heat and multilayer reflection insulators used for buildings in South Korea to realize eco-friendly, low-energy-consumption, green construction, and to cont...This research was conducted to study the performances of the heat and multilayer reflection insulators used for buildings in South Korea to realize eco-friendly, low-energy-consumption, green construction, and to contribute to energy consumption reduction in buildings and to the nation's greenhouse gas emission reduction policy (targeting 30% reduction compared to BAUCousiness as usual) by 2020). The heat insulation performance test is about the temperatures on surfaces of test piece. The high air temperature and the low air temperature were measured to determine the overall heat transfer coefficient and thermal conductivity. The conclusions are drawn that the heat transmission coefficients for each type of existing reflection insulator are: A-1 (0.045 W/(m-K)), A-2 (0.031 W/(m.K)), A-3 (0.042 W/(m.K)), A-4 (0.078 W/(m.K)), and the average heat conductivity is 0.049 W/(m-K); The heat conductivity for each type of Styrofoam insulator are 0.030 W/(m.K) for B-l, 0.032 W/(m-K) for B-2, 0.037 W/(m'K) for B-3, 0.037 W/(m.K) for B-4, and the average heat conductivity is 0.035 W/(m'K) regardless of the thickness of the insulator; The heat conductivity values of the multilayer reflection insulators are converted based on the thickness and type C-1 (0.020 W/(m.K)), C-2 (0.018 W/(m.K)), C-3 (0.016 W/(m.K)), and C-4 (0.012 W/(m.K)); The multilayer reflection insulator keeps the indoor-side surface temperature high (during winter) or low (in summer), enhances the comfort of the building occupants, and conducts heating and moisture resistance to prevent dew condensation on the glass-outer-wall surface.展开更多
Elastic heat transfer tube bundles are widely used in the field of flow-induced vibration heat transfer enhancement. Two types of mainly used tube bundles, the planar elastic tube bundle and the conical spiral tube bu...Elastic heat transfer tube bundles are widely used in the field of flow-induced vibration heat transfer enhancement. Two types of mainly used tube bundles, the planar elastic tube bundle and the conical spiral tube bundle were comprehensively compared in the condition of the same shell side diameter. The natural mode characteristics, the effect of fluid-structure interaction, the stress distribution, the comprehensive heat transfer performance and the secondary fluid flow of the two elastic tube bundles were all concluded and compared. The results show that the natural frequency and the critical velocity of vibration buckling of the planar elastic tube bundle are larger than those of the conical spiral tube bundle, while the stress distribution and the comprehensive heat transfer performance of the conical spiral tube bundle are relatively better.展开更多
The thermal conduction behavior of the three-dimensional axisymmetric functionally graded circular plate was studied under thermal loads on its top and bottom surfaces. Material properties were taken to be arbitrary d...The thermal conduction behavior of the three-dimensional axisymmetric functionally graded circular plate was studied under thermal loads on its top and bottom surfaces. Material properties were taken to be arbitrary distribution functions of the thickness. A temperature function that satisfies thermal boundary conditions at the edges and the variable separation method were used to reduce equation governing the steady state heat conduction to an ordinary differential equation (ODE) in the thickness coordinate which was solved analytically. Next, resulting variable coefficients ODE due to arbitrary distribution of material properties along thickness coordinate was also solved by the Peano-Baker series. Some numerical examples were given to demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency of the present model, mad to investigate the influence of different distributions of material properties on the temperature field. The numerical results confirm that the influence of different material distributions, gradient indices and thickness of plate to temperature field in plate can not be ignored.展开更多
In order to increase the efficiency of solar collector, a methodology is proposed based on the analysis of its influencing factors, such as thermal conductivity of filled layer, structure forms of filled layer and hea...In order to increase the efficiency of solar collector, a methodology is proposed based on the analysis of its influencing factors, such as thermal conductivity of filled layer, structure forms of filled layer and heat loss coefficient. The results of analysis show that the heat transfer between pipes in evacuated tube is one of the most important factors, which can lead to the decrease of the outlet temperature of working fluid. In order to eliminate the negative influence of the heat transfer between pipes, the hollow filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube(HUFET) was developed, and the heat transfer characteristics of HUFET were analyzed by theoretical and experimental studies. The results show that the thermal resistances decrease with the increase of the thermal conductivity of filled layer. When the thermal conductivity is over 10 W/(m·K), the change of thermal resistances is very little.Furthermore, the larger the thermal conductivity of filled layer, the less the rate of the energy transfer between the two pipes to the total energy transfer, which is between the absorber tube and the working fluid. There is a little difference between the efficiencies of HUFET and UFET, with the efficiency of HUFET 2.4% higher than that of UFET. Meanwhile, the validation of the model developed was confirmed by the experiment.展开更多
Contrastive research was carried out to study the thermal properties of open-celled aluminum foams prepared by counter-gravity infiltration casting system and the traditional process respectively.The experimental resu...Contrastive research was carried out to study the thermal properties of open-celled aluminum foams prepared by counter-gravity infiltration casting system and the traditional process respectively.The experimental results show that the thermal conductivity coefficients of aluminum foams prepared by two different infiltration methods have similar increasing trend with the increase of particle size;along with the reducing porosity,the thermal conductivity coefficients will be enhanced oppositely.However,with the same particle size,the open-celled aluminum foam prepared by the former method has a higher thermal conductivity coefficient obviously.It is largely because that the sample prepared by counter-gravity infiltration casting has a lower void content and better dense crystallization of metal-matrix after the constant pressure process.展开更多
A combined conduction and radiation heat transfer model was used to simulate the heat transfer within wafer and investigate the effect of thermal transport properties on temperature non-uniformity within wafer surface...A combined conduction and radiation heat transfer model was used to simulate the heat transfer within wafer and investigate the effect of thermal transport properties on temperature non-uniformity within wafer surface. It is found that the increased conductivities in both doped and undoped regions help reduce the temperature difference across the wafer surface. However, the doped layer conductivity has little effect on the overall temperature distribution and difference. The temperature level and difference on the top surface drop suddenly when absorption coefficient changes from 104 to 103 m-1. When the absorption coefficient is less or equal to 103 m-1, the temperature level and difference do not change much. The emissivity has the dominant effect on the top surface temperature level and difference. Higher surface emissivity can easily increase the temperature level of the wafer surface. After using the improved property data, the overall temperature level reduces by about 200 K from the basis case. The results will help improve the current understanding of the energy transport in the rapid thermal processing and the wafer temperature monitor and control level.展开更多
An enhanced thermal conductivity UO2-BeO composite nuclear fuel was studied. A methodology to generate ANSYS (an engineering simulation software) FEM (finite element method) thermal models of enhanced thermal cond...An enhanced thermal conductivity UO2-BeO composite nuclear fuel was studied. A methodology to generate ANSYS (an engineering simulation software) FEM (finite element method) thermal models of enhanced thermal conductivity oxide nuclear fuels was developed. The results showed significant increase in the fuel thermal conductivities and have good agreement with the measured ones. Thus BeO is one of the promising candidates for fabricating two-phase high thermal conductivity ceramic nuclear fuels with UO2. The reactor performance analysis showed that the decrease in centerline temperature was 250-350 K depending on different fabrication methods for the UO2-BeO composite fuel, and thus we can improve nuclear reactors' performance and safety, and high-level radioactive waste generation for the existing and next generation nuclear reactors.展开更多
High temperature latent thermal storage is one of the critical techniques for a solar dynamic power system. This paper presents results from heat transfer analysis of a phase change salt containment canister A three-d...High temperature latent thermal storage is one of the critical techniques for a solar dynamic power system. This paper presents results from heat transfer analysis of a phase change salt containment canister A three-dimensional analysis program is developed to model heat transfer in a PCM canister. Analysis include effects of asymmetric circumference heat flux, conduction in canister walls, liquid PCM and solid PCM, void volume change and void location, and conduction and radiation across PCM vapor void. The PCM phase change process is modeled using the enthalpy method and the simulation results are compared with those of other two- dimensional investigations. It’s shown that there are large difference with two-dimensional analysis, therefore the three-dimensional model is necessary for system design of high temperature latent thermal storage.展开更多
Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is fo...Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is found that enhancement of power factor and reduction of thermal conductivity can be realized at the same time through magnetic field although magnetoresistivity is greatly increased. ZT can be highly enhanced from 0.17 to 1.1 by more than six times around 350 K under a perpendicular magnetic field of 7 T. The huge enhancement of ZT by magnetic field arises from the linear Dirac band with large Fermi velocity and the large electric thermal conductivity in CdsA 5 2. Our work paves a new way to greatly enhance the thermoelectric performance in the quantum topological materials.展开更多
Umbrella-shaped assembly of cylindrical fins is optimized by adopting analytical method and taking dimensionless mean thermal resistance (MTR) as performance index. The optimal construct of umbrella-shaped assembly is...Umbrella-shaped assembly of cylindrical fins is optimized by adopting analytical method and taking dimensionless mean thermal resistance (MTR) as performance index. The optimal construct of umbrella-shaped assembly is obtained. The results show that the heat conductance performance of the assembly becomes ever worse with ever greater number of elemental cylindrical fins,the umbrella-shaped assembly reduces to cylindrical fin in some values of design parameters,and the diameters’ dependence on design parameters is weak for the optimized assembly. An equivalent thermal resistance defined based on entransy dissipation rate (EDR) reflects an average heat transfer effect of the assembly. The constructal design corresponding to the minimum EDR (or MTR) should be adopted for designing an assembly of fins in engineering at the limit safe condition.展开更多
Based on constructal theory,the constructs of the leaf-like fins are optimized by taking minimum entransy dissipation rate(for the fixed total thermal current,i.e.,the equivalent thermal resistance) as optimization ob...Based on constructal theory,the constructs of the leaf-like fins are optimized by taking minimum entransy dissipation rate(for the fixed total thermal current,i.e.,the equivalent thermal resistance) as optimization objective.The optimal constructs of the leaf-like fins with minimum dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance are obtained.The results show that there exists an optimal elemental leaf-like fin number,which leads to an optimal global heat conduction performance of the first order leaf-like fin.The Biot number has little effects on the optimal elemental fin number,optimal ratios of length and width of the elemental and first order leaf-like fins;with the increase of the thermal conductivity ratio of the vein and blade,the optimal elemental fin number and optimal ratio of the length and width of the elemental leaf-like fin increase,and the optimal shape of the first order leaf-like fin becomes tubbier.The optimal construct based on entransy dissipation rate minimization is obviously different from that based on maximum temperature difference minimization.The dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance based on entransy dissipation rate minimization is reduced by 11.54% compared to that based on maximum temperature difference minimization,and the global heat conduction performance of the leaf-like fin is effectively improved.For the same volumes of the elemental and first order leaf-like fins,the minimum dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance of the first order of the leaf-like fin is reduced by 30.10% compared to that of the elemental leaf-like fin,and the global heat conduction performance of the first order leaf-like fin is obviously better than that of the elemental leaf-like fin.Essentially,this is because the temperature gradient field of the first order leaf-like fin based on entransy dissipation rate minimization is more homogenous than that of the elemental leaf-like fin.The dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance defined based on entransy dissipation rate reflects the average heat transfer performance of the leaf-like fin,and can provide some guidelines for the thermal design of the fins from the viewpoint of heat transfer optimization.展开更多
The existence of classical solutions to a stationary simplified quantum energytransport model for semiconductor devices in 1-dimensional space is proved.The model consists of a nonlinear elliptic third-order equation ...The existence of classical solutions to a stationary simplified quantum energytransport model for semiconductor devices in 1-dimensional space is proved.The model consists of a nonlinear elliptic third-order equation for the electron density,including a temperature derivative,an elliptic nonlinear heat equation for the electron temperature,and the Poisson equation for the electric potential.The proof is based on an exponential variable transformation and the Leray-Schauder fixed-point theorem.展开更多
The exact variational formulation of the extended unsteady heat conduction equation with finite propagation speed (the 2nd sound speed) of hyperbolic type is derived herein via a systematic and natural way. Moreover...The exact variational formulation of the extended unsteady heat conduction equation with finite propagation speed (the 2nd sound speed) of hyperbolic type is derived herein via a systematic and natural way. Moreover, the boundary- and the physically acceptable initial-value conditions are accommodated in the variational principle by a novel method suggested just recently. In this way a perfect justification of the variational theory of transient heat conduction and a rigorous theoretical basis for the finite element analysis of heat conduction are provided.展开更多
A simplified technique is described for calculating the heat loss coefficient from the absorber of the solar flat-plate collector with a combined honeycomb.The problem is treated in two ways:the coupled mode and the d...A simplified technique is described for calculating the heat loss coefficient from the absorber of the solar flat-plate collector with a combined honeycomb.The problem is treated in two ways:the coupled mode and the decoupled mode.In the analysis,the cell wall and glass cover are assumed to be specularly reflecting and diffusely emitting surfaces,while the absorber is a diffusely reflecting and emitting surface.The influences of emissivities of the absorber and the cell wall as well as the aspect ratio on the heat loss coefficient are predicted.The theoretical results are compared with experimental data reported in the literature,and the agreement is good.展开更多
High temperature electrical and thermal transport properties,that is,electrical conductivity,Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity,of CdO ceramics have been investigated.Because of the good electrical propertie...High temperature electrical and thermal transport properties,that is,electrical conductivity,Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity,of CdO ceramics have been investigated.Because of the good electrical properties and low thermal conductivity,the dimensionless figure-of-merit ZT of the CdO ceramics reaches 0.34 at 1023 K.This value is comparable to the best reported ZT for the n-type oxide ceramic thermoelectric materials and remains as potential to be further improved by porosity controlling or nanostructuring.展开更多
基金Project(NRF-2010-0024155) supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea
文摘This research was conducted to study the performances of the heat and multilayer reflection insulators used for buildings in South Korea to realize eco-friendly, low-energy-consumption, green construction, and to contribute to energy consumption reduction in buildings and to the nation's greenhouse gas emission reduction policy (targeting 30% reduction compared to BAUCousiness as usual) by 2020). The heat insulation performance test is about the temperatures on surfaces of test piece. The high air temperature and the low air temperature were measured to determine the overall heat transfer coefficient and thermal conductivity. The conclusions are drawn that the heat transmission coefficients for each type of existing reflection insulator are: A-1 (0.045 W/(m-K)), A-2 (0.031 W/(m.K)), A-3 (0.042 W/(m.K)), A-4 (0.078 W/(m.K)), and the average heat conductivity is 0.049 W/(m-K); The heat conductivity for each type of Styrofoam insulator are 0.030 W/(m.K) for B-l, 0.032 W/(m-K) for B-2, 0.037 W/(m'K) for B-3, 0.037 W/(m.K) for B-4, and the average heat conductivity is 0.035 W/(m'K) regardless of the thickness of the insulator; The heat conductivity values of the multilayer reflection insulators are converted based on the thickness and type C-1 (0.020 W/(m.K)), C-2 (0.018 W/(m.K)), C-3 (0.016 W/(m.K)), and C-4 (0.012 W/(m.K)); The multilayer reflection insulator keeps the indoor-side surface temperature high (during winter) or low (in summer), enhances the comfort of the building occupants, and conducts heating and moisture resistance to prevent dew condensation on the glass-outer-wall surface.
基金Projects(xjj2013104,08143063)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,ChinaProject(2011CB706606)supported by the National Basic Research Program of China
文摘Elastic heat transfer tube bundles are widely used in the field of flow-induced vibration heat transfer enhancement. Two types of mainly used tube bundles, the planar elastic tube bundle and the conical spiral tube bundle were comprehensively compared in the condition of the same shell side diameter. The natural mode characteristics, the effect of fluid-structure interaction, the stress distribution, the comprehensive heat transfer performance and the secondary fluid flow of the two elastic tube bundles were all concluded and compared. The results show that the natural frequency and the critical velocity of vibration buckling of the planar elastic tube bundle are larger than those of the conical spiral tube bundle, while the stress distribution and the comprehensive heat transfer performance of the conical spiral tube bundle are relatively better.
基金Project(11102136)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2012ZDK04)supported by the Open Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Structural Safety,China
文摘The thermal conduction behavior of the three-dimensional axisymmetric functionally graded circular plate was studied under thermal loads on its top and bottom surfaces. Material properties were taken to be arbitrary distribution functions of the thickness. A temperature function that satisfies thermal boundary conditions at the edges and the variable separation method were used to reduce equation governing the steady state heat conduction to an ordinary differential equation (ODE) in the thickness coordinate which was solved analytically. Next, resulting variable coefficients ODE due to arbitrary distribution of material properties along thickness coordinate was also solved by the Peano-Baker series. Some numerical examples were given to demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency of the present model, mad to investigate the influence of different distributions of material properties on the temperature field. The numerical results confirm that the influence of different material distributions, gradient indices and thickness of plate to temperature field in plate can not be ignored.
基金Projects(2011BAJ03B12-3,2013BAJ10B02-03) supported by the National Science and Technology Program during the 12th Five-year Plan Period,ChinaProject(51378005) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation,China+1 种基金Projects(DUT14RC(3)123,DUT14RC(3)129) supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Dalian University of Tecnology,ChinaProject(DUT14ZD210) supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
文摘In order to increase the efficiency of solar collector, a methodology is proposed based on the analysis of its influencing factors, such as thermal conductivity of filled layer, structure forms of filled layer and heat loss coefficient. The results of analysis show that the heat transfer between pipes in evacuated tube is one of the most important factors, which can lead to the decrease of the outlet temperature of working fluid. In order to eliminate the negative influence of the heat transfer between pipes, the hollow filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube(HUFET) was developed, and the heat transfer characteristics of HUFET were analyzed by theoretical and experimental studies. The results show that the thermal resistances decrease with the increase of the thermal conductivity of filled layer. When the thermal conductivity is over 10 W/(m·K), the change of thermal resistances is very little.Furthermore, the larger the thermal conductivity of filled layer, the less the rate of the energy transfer between the two pipes to the total energy transfer, which is between the absorber tube and the working fluid. There is a little difference between the efficiencies of HUFET and UFET, with the efficiency of HUFET 2.4% higher than that of UFET. Meanwhile, the validation of the model developed was confirmed by the experiment.
基金Project(51304254) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2013GK4064) supported by the Strategic Emerging Industry Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Hunan Province,China
文摘Contrastive research was carried out to study the thermal properties of open-celled aluminum foams prepared by counter-gravity infiltration casting system and the traditional process respectively.The experimental results show that the thermal conductivity coefficients of aluminum foams prepared by two different infiltration methods have similar increasing trend with the increase of particle size;along with the reducing porosity,the thermal conductivity coefficients will be enhanced oppositely.However,with the same particle size,the open-celled aluminum foam prepared by the former method has a higher thermal conductivity coefficient obviously.It is largely because that the sample prepared by counter-gravity infiltration casting has a lower void content and better dense crystallization of metal-matrix after the constant pressure process.
基金Project(N110204015)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,ChinaProject(2012M510075)supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
文摘A combined conduction and radiation heat transfer model was used to simulate the heat transfer within wafer and investigate the effect of thermal transport properties on temperature non-uniformity within wafer surface. It is found that the increased conductivities in both doped and undoped regions help reduce the temperature difference across the wafer surface. However, the doped layer conductivity has little effect on the overall temperature distribution and difference. The temperature level and difference on the top surface drop suddenly when absorption coefficient changes from 104 to 103 m-1. When the absorption coefficient is less or equal to 103 m-1, the temperature level and difference do not change much. The emissivity has the dominant effect on the top surface temperature level and difference. Higher surface emissivity can easily increase the temperature level of the wafer surface. After using the improved property data, the overall temperature level reduces by about 200 K from the basis case. The results will help improve the current understanding of the energy transport in the rapid thermal processing and the wafer temperature monitor and control level.
文摘An enhanced thermal conductivity UO2-BeO composite nuclear fuel was studied. A methodology to generate ANSYS (an engineering simulation software) FEM (finite element method) thermal models of enhanced thermal conductivity oxide nuclear fuels was developed. The results showed significant increase in the fuel thermal conductivities and have good agreement with the measured ones. Thus BeO is one of the promising candidates for fabricating two-phase high thermal conductivity ceramic nuclear fuels with UO2. The reactor performance analysis showed that the decrease in centerline temperature was 250-350 K depending on different fabrication methods for the UO2-BeO composite fuel, and thus we can improve nuclear reactors' performance and safety, and high-level radioactive waste generation for the existing and next generation nuclear reactors.
文摘High temperature latent thermal storage is one of the critical techniques for a solar dynamic power system. This paper presents results from heat transfer analysis of a phase change salt containment canister A three-dimensional analysis program is developed to model heat transfer in a PCM canister. Analysis include effects of asymmetric circumference heat flux, conduction in canister walls, liquid PCM and solid PCM, void volume change and void location, and conduction and radiation across PCM vapor void. The PCM phase change process is modeled using the enthalpy method and the simulation results are compared with those of other two- dimensional investigations. It’s shown that there are large difference with two-dimensional analysis, therefore the three-dimensional model is necessary for system design of high temperature latent thermal storage.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology China(2017YFA0303001,2016YFA0300201 and 2017YFA0204904)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11534010,11774325 and21603210)+4 种基金the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences CAS(QYZDY-SSW-SLH021)Hefei Science Center CAS(2016HSCIU001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesSupercomputing Center at USTC for providing the computing resourcespartially performed on the Superconducting Magnet and PPMS-16T Facilities,High Magnetic Field Laboratory of CAS
文摘Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is found that enhancement of power factor and reduction of thermal conductivity can be realized at the same time through magnetic field although magnetoresistivity is greatly increased. ZT can be highly enhanced from 0.17 to 1.1 by more than six times around 350 K under a perpendicular magnetic field of 7 T. The huge enhancement of ZT by magnetic field arises from the linear Dirac band with large Fermi velocity and the large electric thermal conductivity in CdsA 5 2. Our work paves a new way to greatly enhance the thermoelectric performance in the quantum topological materials.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.10905093)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (Grant No.NCET-04-1006)the Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (Grant No.200136)
文摘Umbrella-shaped assembly of cylindrical fins is optimized by adopting analytical method and taking dimensionless mean thermal resistance (MTR) as performance index. The optimal construct of umbrella-shaped assembly is obtained. The results show that the heat conductance performance of the assembly becomes ever worse with ever greater number of elemental cylindrical fins,the umbrella-shaped assembly reduces to cylindrical fin in some values of design parameters,and the diameters’ dependence on design parameters is weak for the optimized assembly. An equivalent thermal resistance defined based on entransy dissipation rate (EDR) reflects an average heat transfer effect of the assembly. The constructal design corresponding to the minimum EDR (or MTR) should be adopted for designing an assembly of fins in engineering at the limit safe condition.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51176203)the Natural Science Foundation of Naval University of Engineering (Grant No. HGDYDJJ10011)the Natural Science Foundation for Youngsters of Naval University of Engineering (Grant No. HGDQNJJ10017)
文摘Based on constructal theory,the constructs of the leaf-like fins are optimized by taking minimum entransy dissipation rate(for the fixed total thermal current,i.e.,the equivalent thermal resistance) as optimization objective.The optimal constructs of the leaf-like fins with minimum dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance are obtained.The results show that there exists an optimal elemental leaf-like fin number,which leads to an optimal global heat conduction performance of the first order leaf-like fin.The Biot number has little effects on the optimal elemental fin number,optimal ratios of length and width of the elemental and first order leaf-like fins;with the increase of the thermal conductivity ratio of the vein and blade,the optimal elemental fin number and optimal ratio of the length and width of the elemental leaf-like fin increase,and the optimal shape of the first order leaf-like fin becomes tubbier.The optimal construct based on entransy dissipation rate minimization is obviously different from that based on maximum temperature difference minimization.The dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance based on entransy dissipation rate minimization is reduced by 11.54% compared to that based on maximum temperature difference minimization,and the global heat conduction performance of the leaf-like fin is effectively improved.For the same volumes of the elemental and first order leaf-like fins,the minimum dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance of the first order of the leaf-like fin is reduced by 30.10% compared to that of the elemental leaf-like fin,and the global heat conduction performance of the first order leaf-like fin is obviously better than that of the elemental leaf-like fin.Essentially,this is because the temperature gradient field of the first order leaf-like fin based on entransy dissipation rate minimization is more homogenous than that of the elemental leaf-like fin.The dimensionless equivalent thermal resistance defined based on entransy dissipation rate reflects the average heat transfer performance of the leaf-like fin,and can provide some guidelines for the thermal design of the fins from the viewpoint of heat transfer optimization.
基金the Vital Science Research Foundation of Henan Province Education Department(No.12A110024)
文摘The existence of classical solutions to a stationary simplified quantum energytransport model for semiconductor devices in 1-dimensional space is proved.The model consists of a nonlinear elliptic third-order equation for the electron density,including a temperature derivative,an elliptic nonlinear heat equation for the electron temperature,and the Poisson equation for the electric potential.The proof is based on an exponential variable transformation and the Leray-Schauder fixed-point theorem.
基金The support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50136030) the Shanghai Leading Acad. Discipline Project (No. Y0103) is gratefully appreciated.
文摘The exact variational formulation of the extended unsteady heat conduction equation with finite propagation speed (the 2nd sound speed) of hyperbolic type is derived herein via a systematic and natural way. Moreover, the boundary- and the physically acceptable initial-value conditions are accommodated in the variational principle by a novel method suggested just recently. In this way a perfect justification of the variational theory of transient heat conduction and a rigorous theoretical basis for the finite element analysis of heat conduction are provided.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘A simplified technique is described for calculating the heat loss coefficient from the absorber of the solar flat-plate collector with a combined honeycomb.The problem is treated in two ways:the coupled mode and the decoupled mode.In the analysis,the cell wall and glass cover are assumed to be specularly reflecting and diffusely emitting surfaces,while the absorber is a diffusely reflecting and emitting surface.The influences of emissivities of the absorber and the cell wall as well as the aspect ratio on the heat loss coefficient are predicted.The theoretical results are compared with experimental data reported in the literature,and the agreement is good.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hebei Province(Grant No.A2013201249)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51372064)
文摘High temperature electrical and thermal transport properties,that is,electrical conductivity,Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity,of CdO ceramics have been investigated.Because of the good electrical properties and low thermal conductivity,the dimensionless figure-of-merit ZT of the CdO ceramics reaches 0.34 at 1023 K.This value is comparable to the best reported ZT for the n-type oxide ceramic thermoelectric materials and remains as potential to be further improved by porosity controlling or nanostructuring.