In the process industry, vortex generators are being increasingly incorporated in modern multifunctional heat exchangers/reactors to enhance heat and mass transfer and thus increase energy efficiency. Longitudinal and transverse pressure-driven vortices and shear-instability-driven flow...

Rotating stall around a small-scale horizontal axis wind turbine was experimentally studied to characterize and assess smart rotor control by plasma actuators. Phase-locked Particle Image Velocimetry was used to map the flow over the rotor blade suction surface at numerous radial stations at a...

Vortex generators (VGs) are commonly-used effective flow separation control devices, and are proved to have potential to improve the aerodynamic performance of large wind turbines. In this paper, the flow physics of VGs and how their size affects the aerodynamic performance of a blunt...

This study focuses on heat transfer enhancement in double pipe energy storage system. Enhancement is achieved by use of metal screens/spheres placed inside the phase change material (PCM), which is paraffin wax and results in increasing the effective thermal conductivity of the combined media of...

Laminar forced convection inside the solar air heater with various wire electrode arrangements are numerically examined for heat transfer enhancement using electrohydrodynamic technique. The electric field is generated by the wire electrodes charged with DC high voltage ranging from 7.5 to...

Heat transfer enhancement of natural convection inside the inclined solar chimneys is investigated using electrohydrodynamic technique. The interactions between electric field, flow field, and temperature field are analyzed. The ranges of parameters considered are 104⩽Ra⩽107,...