Sunday, July 16
Sunday, July 16 13:00 - 16:00
Registration
Convention Centre Foyer
Room: Foyer area/Other areaSunday, July 16 18:00 - 19:00
Welcome
Coktail lounge & Grand Garden, Grand Hotel Bernardin
Room: Foyer area/Other areaMonday, July 17
Monday, July 17 7:30 - 10:20
Registration
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Monday, July 17 8:40 - 9:00
Opening by Conference Chair: Prof Josua Meyer (University of Pretoria)
Conference Centre of Grand Hotel Bernardin
Room: Emerald IIMonday, July 17 9:00 - 10:20
Keynotes 1 and 2
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Yasuyuki Takata (Kyushu University, Japan), Catherine Colin (University of Toulouse & Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse, France)
Monday, July 17 10:20 - 10:40
Tea/Coffee
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Monday, July 17 10:40 - 12:40
Air conditioning and refrigeration
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Carlos Eduardo Leme Nobrega (CEFET-Rio, Brazil), Tetsuaki Takeda (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
- 10:40 Single-phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Performance in a Horizontal Internal Helically-finned Tube
- 11:00 Heat Transfer in the Laminar and Transitional Flow Regimes of Smooth Vertical Tube for Upflow Direction
- 11:20 Performance of a Single Effect LiBr-water Absorption Chiller Operating with a Membrane-Based Microchannel Absorber
- 11:40 Ecological and ECOP Performances of an Irreversible Two-stage Absorption Refrigeration Cycle
- 12:00 Thermodynamic and Economic Evaluation of Trigeneration Systems in Energy-Intensive Buildings
- 12:20 An Experimental Study on Adsorption Characteristics of R134a and R404a onto Silicagel Adsorbents
Two-phase flow 1
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Hae-Man Choi (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea (South)), Yulong Ding (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
- 10:40 Bödewadt Flow of a Fluid-particle Suspension with Strong Suction
- 11:00 Effect of a DC Electric Field on the Liquid-Vapor Interface in a Grooved Flat Heat Pipe
- 11:20 Entrainment of Air Driven by Rotational Field Inside Viscous Liquids
- 11:40 Simulations of Air-Water Two-Phase Flow in an Inclined Pipe
- 12:00 Filmwise Condensation on Micro-fin Surfaces Produced by Selective Laser Melting
- 12:20 Modeling of Dropwise Condensation on Flat Surfaces
Aerodynamics 1
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Özer Bağcı (Ghent Unversity, Belgium), Ronald Barron (University of Windsor, Canada)
- 10:40 Simulation and Experimental Analysis of Hovering and Flight of a Quadrotor
- 11:00 Three-Dimensional Numerical Investigations on Lift and Drag Characteristics of Bird Wing Performing Flapping Motion
- 11:20 A CFD Study of Air Entrance's Influence on the Air Resistance of Ahmed Reference Body
- 11:40 Effect of Free Stream Turbulence on Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer from Square Cylinder
- 12:00 Labyrinth Seals Flow Field Evaluation Using Optical Methods
- 12:20 Impacts of the Gap Size Between Two Bluff Bodies on the Flow Field Within the Gap
Monday, July 17 12:40 - 13:40
Lunch
Bernardin Restaurant
Room: Foyer area/Other areaMonday, July 17 13:40 - 15:40
Condensation
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Md Didarul Islam (The Petroleum Institute, United Arab Emirates), Dolaana Khovalyg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Denmark)
- 13:40 Falling Film Mode Transition in an Array of Horizontal Tubes: Effect of Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Fins
- 14:00 Comparison of Numerical Phase Change Models in Two-Phase Heat Transfer Problem
- 14:20 Experimental Analysis of the Effect of a Wettability Gradient on Condensation Heat Transfer Coefficient
- 14:40 Condensation Heat Transfer of Non-Azeotropic Mixtures Inside Channels
- 15:00 Energy Analysis of Condensate Growth on Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Hierarchical Roughness
- 15:20 New Flow Condensation Heat Transfer Model for Methane and Ethane
Monday, July 17 13:40 - 15:20
Gas turbines
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Zhongjie Huan (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa), Hyo Tae Kim (Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, Korea (South))
- 13:40 Numerical Simulation of Pressure Swirl Atomizer for Small Scale Gas Turbine Combustion Chamber
- 14:00 Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Self Entraining Ejector Conical Diffuser with and Without Slot Guidance
- 14:20 Influence of Inlet Flow Condition on Turbine Blade Showerhead Film Cooling
- 14:40 The Influence of the Relative Number of Impingement and Effusion Cooling Holes on Gas Turbine Combustor Wall Heat Transfer
- 15:00 Experimental Study of Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss in Channels with V Rib-Dimple Hybrid Structure
Multiphase flow 1
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Gabor Farkas (Mentor Graphics, Hungary), Kalvala Srinivas Reddy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras & Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory, India)
- 13:40 Chaotic Oscillations of a Single Cavitating Bubble Immersed in a Maxwell Liquid
- 14:00 Design and Performance of Single Loop PHP Capable of Working in Horizontal Position
- 14:20 Effect of Cattaneo-Christov Heat Flux on MHD Casson Flow over Various Geometries with Thermophoresis and Brownian Moment
- 14:40 CFD-PBM Modelling of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Bubble Column Reactors with an Improved Breakup Kernel Accounting for Bubble Shape Variations
- 15:00 Role of Electric Actuation in Electro-Capillary Driven Coalescence of Sessile Droplets
Monday, July 17 15:20 - 15:40
Tea/Coffee
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Monday, July 17 15:40 - 17:00
Energy storage
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Zhixian Ma (Dalian University of Technology, China), Samo Mahnič-Kalamiza (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- 15:40 Transient Numerical Study on Enhancement of Phase Change Material Thermal Storage with Angled Parallel Fins
- 16:00 On the Design and Advantages of a Vapor Chamber for Battery Packs and the Discrepancy in Vertical Channel Boiling Correlations at Small Gap Spacing
- 16:20 Analytical Thermal Modeling and Calibration Method for Lithium-ion Batteries
- 16:40 Comparison of Sizing Calculations Based on Exergy and Electric Power Production for Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Monday, July 17 15:40 - 17:20
Cooling, Cryogenics and Electronic cooling
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Christos N. Markides (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Marko Matkovič (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
- 15:40 Charging of a Thermal Battery Composed of Open-Cell Metal Foam and Phase Change Material for Use in Pharmaceuticals Transport
- 16:00 Field Test of the Size and Velocity Distribution of the Raindrops in the Rain Zone of the Cooling Tower
- 16:20 Dynamic Simulation Study on Effect of LNG Temperature on Jetty Boil-Off Gas Generation at LNG Exporting Terminals
- 16:40 Microstructure and Thermal Properties of ZTA Ceramics with Boron Nitride Nanotubes
- 17:00 Experimentally Validated Coupled Modelling of the Heat Transfer Processes of Electromagnetically Driven Flow Within a Cold-Crucible Induction Furnace
Conduction
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Mostafa Brik (INSA of Lyon, France), Digvijay Kulshreshtha (C K Pithawala College of Engineering and Technology, India)
- 15:40 Analysis of Pin Fins with Radiation
- 16:00 Non-destructive Structural Analysis of the Heat Conducting Path in Power Electronics and Solid State Lighting by Thermal Transient Testing
- 16:20 Performance Evaluation of Control Panel Heat Exchanger
- 16:40 Heat Transfer Capability of Functionalized Graphene Nanoplatelet Dispersions in Propylene Glycol + Water, 30:70 Wt.%
Tuesday, July 18
Tuesday, July 18 8:00 - 10:20
Registration
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Tuesday, July 18 8:20 - 10:20
Keynotes 3 - 5
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Mohamed Farid (The University of Auckland, New Zealand), Matej Zadravec (University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia)
Tuesday, July 18 10:20 - 10:40
Tea/Coffee
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Tuesday, July 18 10:40 - 12:40
Boiling
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Muhsin Kılıç (Uludağ University, Turkey), Srinivas Palanki (Lamar University, USA)
- 10:40 CFD-FE Simulation for the Optimization of a Cylinder Pressure Sensor Application in a Large Gas Engine
- 11:00 The Reserch of Two Phase Heat Transfer for R50, R170 and R50/R170 Binary Mixtures
- 11:20 Review of Numerical Studies of Boiling Two-Phase Flow in Smooth Tubes
- 11:40 Experimental Investigation on the Heat Transfer and Heat Sink Characteristics of the Kerosene-Water Emulsion in a Rectangular Channel
- 12:00 Experimental Investigation and Modelling of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer of C3F8/C2F6 Blends
- 12:20 Enhanced Boiling Surface with Hydrophobic Circle Spots for Evaporator of Looped Thermosiphon
Convection heat transfer 1
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Patrick H Oosthuizen (Queen's University, Canada), Christian Odenthal (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany)
- 10:40 Natural Convection Within Nanofluid-filled Hemispherical Enclosure Containing a Cubic Electronic Device
- 11:00 New Friction Factor and Heat Transfer Coefficient Equations for Forced Laminar Convection of Liquid with Variable Properties in Straight Tubes
- 11:20 Analysis of Free Convection in Heatsinks Using Design of Experiments
- 11:40 Evaporation of DMF Sessile Drops on Stationary and Vibrating Substrates
- 12:00 Jet Impingement Heat Transfer of Moving Metal Sheet
- 12:20 Local Heat Transfer Analysis During Intensive Cooling with Water Sprays and Jets
Tuesday, July 18 10:40 - 12:00
Posters 1
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Chairs: Michel De Paepe (Ghent University - UGent, Belgium), Seyyed Mohammad Ali Noori Rahim Abadi (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- 10:40 Contactless Method of Specific Heat Capacity Determination
- 10:45 Artificial Neural Networks Application in Thermography
- 10:51 Composite Thermal Walls for Low Energy Brazilian Homes
- 10:57 Study of Natural Convection in the Presence of Magnetic Filed Cylindric Enclosure
- 11:02 Effect of Variation in Length of the Conventional Heat Pipe on the Thermal Performance
- 11:08 Numerical Simulation on the Two-Phase Flow Pattern in the Loop Heat Pipe with R-134a
- 11:14 Recent Research and Prospects of Thermal Expansion Studies. Standard Materials
- 11:19 Surface Design for Dropwise Condensation: A Theoretical and Experimental Study
- 11:25 Dynamic Characteristics of Flowmeters for Fuel Consumption Measurement in Ships
- 11:31 Parallel Plate Channels for Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storages
- 11:37 Analytical Modeling and Numerical Solution of a Simple Solar Still
- 11:42 Validation of a Procedure for Dimensioning a Cyclone Separator for Circulating Fluidized Bed Gasifier
- 11:48 A Performance Test of Adsorption Refrigeration System Applying Superabsorbent Polymeric Adsorbent
- 11:54 Alternative Design of Hybrid Desiccant Cooling Systems
Tuesday, July 18 10:40 - 13:00
Duct and channel flow
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Md Didarul Islam (The Petroleum Institute, United Arab Emirates), Kai Choong Leong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- 10:40 Thermochemical Reactions in Partially Exposed Nuclear Fuel
- 11:00 Performance Analysis of Finned Pipe in Air Sampling Smoke Detection System at Refrigerated Warehouse
- 11:20 Subgrid-scale Modeling of Turbulent Heat Transport in Forced Convection at High Molecular Prandtl Numbers
- 11:40 CFD Modelling and Validation of Pipe Bifurcations
- 12:00 Near-wall Modelling of the Turbulent Prandtl Number Based on Experiments, Numerical Simulation, and Theoretical Analysis
- 12:20 Wall-layer Model for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of Suspended Sediment Transport (SST) in a Lab-Scale Turbulent Open Channel Flow
- 12:40 Role of Entropy Generation and Field Synergy on Heat Transfer from Confined Wavy Wall
Tuesday, July 18 12:40 - 13:40
Lunch
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Tuesday, July 18 13:40 - 15:20
Energy and environmental systems 1
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Donghoon Shin (Kookmin University, Korea (South)), Matej Zadravec (University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia)
- 13:40 Schlieren Visualizations of Non-Ideal Compressible Fluid Flows
- 14:00 Simultaneous Optimal Control and Optimal Cleaning Scheduling of Small Heat Exchanger Networks Subject to Fouling
- 14:20 Method for Analysing the Heat Recovery Potential of Thermoprocessing Equipment
- 14:40 Exploring Optimal Working Fluids and Cycle Architectures for Organic Rankine Cycle Systems Using Advanced Computer-Aided Molecular Design Methodologies
- 15:00 Hygroscopic Inertia Influence on Indoor Environments: Moisture Buffering
Thermal management
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Ilango Thiagalingam (Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse, France), Rohitha Weerasinghe (University of the West of England, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
- 13:40 Density Measurements of Endothermic Hydrocarbon Fuels at Temperatures from 235 K to 353 K and Pressures Up to 4.09 MPa
- 14:00 A Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Fibonacci Spiral Microchannel Heat Sink
- 14:20 Conjugate Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Investigation
- 14:40 Thermogravimetric Determination of Thermal Conductivity of Lumpy Limestones
- 15:00 Analysis of the Energetics and Stability of Liquid Droplets on Textured Surfaces with Square Micropillars
Multiphase flow 2
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Haifa El-sadi (Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA), Chiara Spaccapaniccia (Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium)
- 13:40 Experimental Studies on Steam Condensation in Horizontal and Vertical Microtubes
- 14:00 Numerical Investigation of Condensation Inside an Inclined Smooth Tube
- 14:20 A Thermokinetic Model for Dropwise Condensation on a Planar Substrate with Conical Pores
- 14:40 Effect of Thin Film Truncation Thickness on the Heat Transfer Underestimation from an Evaporating Droplet on a Partial Wetting Surface
- 15:00 Rheological Properties of Extracted Oil from Sludge
Tuesday, July 18 15:20 - 15:40
Tea/Coffee
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Tuesday, July 18 15:40 - 17:20
Nanofluids
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Amir Amini (Spirax Sacro Ltd. & CEng FIMechE, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Gordon Andrews (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
- 15:40 Thermophysical Properties of a Nanofluid Based on a Eutectic Mixture of Diphenyl and Diphenyl Oxide and Carbon Black Nanoparticles
- 16:00 Thermodynamics Implied by Reducing the Phonon and the Cattaneo Heat Conduction Theories to the Fourier Theory
- 16:20 Influence of Ethylene Glycol-Water Mixture Ratio on SiO2 Nanofluid Turbulent Forced Convection Heat Transfer Characteristics
- 16:40 Entropy Generation of Nanofluid Flow over a Convectively-Heated Stretching Sheet with Stagnation Point Having Nimonic 80a Nanoparticles: Buongiorno Model
- 17:00 On the Use of Colored Sand for Volumetric Solar Radiation Absorption for Concentrated Solar Power Applications
Heat exchanger 1
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Vincenzo Armenio (University of Trieste, Italy), Şefik Bilir (Selcuk University, Turkey)
- 15:40 Steady State Modeling of a Fire Tube Boiler
- 16:00 Channel-to-Channel Heat Flux Variation in Compact Minichannel Heat Exchangers Due to the Effect of Louvered Fins
- 16:20 Experimental Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement with Winglets Inside a Tube
- 16:40 Process Intensification for the Small Footprint Compact Heat Transfer Device
- 17:00 Influence of Free Convection on the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Developing and Fully Developed Flow in the Transitional Flow Regime
Two-phase flow 2
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Jacek Smolka (Silesian Universiy of Technology, Poland), Matevz Zupancic (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia)
- 15:40 Modelling of the Overall Volumetric Mass Transfer Coefficient Measured by the Dynamic Method in Gas-liquid-liquid Systems
- 16:00 Thermodynamic Analysis of Water Boiling in Presence of a Non-Condensable Gas, the Carbon Dioxide (CO2): Application to Geothermal Flows in Wellbores
- 16:20 The Distribution over an Impacting T-Junction of Two-Phase R32 Under Heat Pump Conditions
- 16:40 Thermo-hydraulic Modelling of Direct Steam Generation in a Solar Parabolic Trough Collector System
- 17:00 Transport of Sessile Droplet in Porous Medium with Evaporation and Chemical Reaction
Wednesday, July 19
Wednesday, July 19 8:00 - 10:20
Registration
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Wednesday, July 19 9:00 - 10:20
Keynotes 6 and 7
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Michel De Paepe (Ghent University - UGent, Belgium), Igor Pioro (University of Ontario Institute of Technology & Editor of ASME J. of Nuclear Engineering & Radiation Science, Canada)
Wednesday, July 19 10:20 - 10:40
Tea/Coffee
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Wednesday, July 19 10:40 - 12:40
Convection heat transfer 2
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Catherine Colin (University of Toulouse & Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse, France), Haifa El-sadi (Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA)
- 10:40 A Detailed Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of an Out-In Configuration Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) Process
- 11:00 Natural Convective Heat Transfer from Upward Facing Recessed and Protruding Heated Horizontal Isothermal Circular Elements with Isothermal Vertical Side Surfaces
- 11:20 A Study of the Effect of Triangular and Rectangular Surface Waves on the Natural Convective Heat Transfer from A Circular Upward Facing Heated Horizontal Isothermal Surface
- 11:40 Parametric Study of A Triangular Cross Corrugated Plate
- 12:00 Transient Conjugated Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Thick Walled Pipes and Minipipes with Time Periodically Changing Convective Boundary Condition
- 12:20 Heat and Mass Transport at Unsteady Sublimation of Single Metal-organic Particles in the Gas-carrier Flow
Wednesday, July 19 10:40 - 12:20
Renewable energy
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Gerald Muller (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), J. Prakash (University of Botswana, Botswana)
- 10:40 An Advance Adsorbent Coated Adsorption Cycle Performance
- 11:00 Liquid Cooling of a Microprocessor: Experimentation and Simulation of a Sub-Millimeter Channel Heat Exchanger
- 11:20 Heat Transfer Intensification and Flow Rate Control in Dynamic Micro-Heat Exchanger
- 11:40 An Inverse Problem Methodology for Estimating Heat and Desiccant Wheels off Design Parameters
- 12:00 The Optimum Position of Water Heat Transfer Coils Downstream of a Radial Swirler in a 20kW Heater
Wednesday, July 19 10:40 - 12:00
Posters 2
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Chairs: Mostafa Brik (INSA of Lyon, France), Helfried Steiner (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
- 10:40 Constructal Design of Cavities for Intensified Cooling Performance on Heat Generating Volumes
- 10:46 Chemical & Calcium Looping Systems: Heat Integration Analysis for Improvement the Energy Efficiency of Various Industrial Processes
- 10:52 Study the Effect of Pressure on Airflow Field in Vortex Spinning Nozzle by Numerical Simulation
- 10:58 Study of the EOR Agents' Oil Displacing Properties Based on the Results of Filtration Experiments
- 11:04 Entropy Generation Analysis of a Gas Cooler for Transcritical CO2 Systems
- 11:11 Optimal Process Durations of Expansion of a Heated Gas with Linear Phenomenological Transfer Law
- 11:17 Hydro-thermal Effects on Ice Formation of Dissolved Water in Aviation Jet Fuel
- 11:23 Impact of Ohmic Heating on Mass Transfer in Electroporated Plant Tissue - Insights from Numerical Modelling
- 11:29 Numerical and Experimental Analysis of the Thermal Behavior of Dry-Type Transformer Supplying Nonlinear Loads
- 11:35 Combustion Characteristics by Reversed Air Injection as a Flameless Combustion
- 11:42 Model of Heat Transfer in Circulating Fluidized Beds Applied for CO2 Capture by Calcium-looping Process
- 11:48 Thermophysical Properties of Functionalized Graphene Nanoplatelet Dispersions for Improving Efficiency in a Wind Turbine Cooling System
- 11:54 Pseudo-three Dimensional Theoretical Prediction of Local Temperatures in an Interior Permanent Magnet Motor Using a Lumped Parameter Heat Transfer Model
Wednesday, July 19 10:40 - 12:40
Heat transfer enhancement
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Matteo Bucci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Dongqiang Lyu (Shandong University, China)
- 10:40 Experimental Investigation of a Forced Convection Heat Transfer at Supercritical Pressures of the Organic Fluid R-125 Under Organic Rankine Cycle Conditions
- 11:00 Clutch Transient Heat Transfer Simulation for Hill Start Vehicle Test Condition
- 11:20 Heat Transfer Study of 3-D Printed Air-Cooled Heat Sinks
- 11:40 Enhanced Thermal Performance of a Water-Cooled Cold Plate with Porous Inserts Fabricated by Selective Laser Melting
- 12:00 Polymer Hollow Fibre Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger for Liquid-Liquid Applications
- 12:20 Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics of Air-Water Heat Exchanger Inserting Porous Material with High Porosity
Wednesday, July 19 12:40 - 13:40
Lunch
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Wednesday, July 19 13:40 - 15:20
Aerodynamics 2
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Shirley Abelman (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Jorge Naude (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico)
- 13:40 Aerodynamics Analysis of a Formula SAE Car
- 14:00 Axisymmetric and Three-Dimensional Flow Simulation of a Mixed Compression Supersonic Air Intake
- 14:20 Thermodynamic Modeling and Performance Optimization for Simple-Cycle Gas Turbine with Air Cooling
- 14:40 Influence of Crosswind on Heller Natural Draft Dry Cooling Tower and Improvement Measures
- 15:00 Analysis on the Influence of Gap Flow Around a Tractor-Trailer
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Room: Mediterranea II
Chairs: Masahiro Fukui (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Shoji Mori (Yokohama National University, Japan)
- 13:40 A Coupled Lattice-Boltzmann - Immersed Boundary Method to Model the Behaviour of Thin Flexible Structures in Fluids
- 14:00 Filtering in Microchannel Heat Sink Topology Optimization
- 14:20 An Experimental and Numerical Investigation into Flow Phenomena Leading to Wastewater Centrifugal Pump Blockage
- 14:40 What We Can Learn from DNS of Turbulence in Porous Media: Modeling Turbulent Flow in Composite Porous/Fluid Domains
- 15:00 Numerical Study of the Resultant Sediment Transport near the Port of Ngqura Due to the Blockage of a Sand Bypass System
Solar energy
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Fei Duan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Mohamed Farid (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
- 13:40 Experimental Performance Analysis of an Ammonia-Water Diffusion Absorption Refrigeration Cycle System
- 14:00 Plastic Helical Coil Heat Exchanger as an Alternative for a Domestic Water Storage Tank
- 14:20 A Novel Optical Technique for Accurate Planar Measurements of Film-thickness and Velocity in Annular Flows
- 14:40 Energetic and Economic Optimisation of a Novel Hybrid PV-Thermal System for Domestic Combined Heating and Power
- 15:00 Systematic Solar-Collector Testing in Steady-State and Dynamic Conditions
Wednesday, July 19 15:20 - 15:40
Tea/Coffee
Room: Foyer area/Other area
Wednesday, July 19 15:40 - 17:20
Energy systems
Room: Mediterranea I
Chairs: Je-Chin Han (Texas A&M University, USA), Dirk H. Hübner (Saarbrücken University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- 15:40 Building a Unique Test Section for Local Critical Heat Flux Studies in Light Water Reactor - Like Accident Conditions
- 16:00 Stratification Mitigation in the Upper Tank of a Natural Convection Loop
- 16:20 Performance Analysis and Optimization of Multi-stage Combined Thermoelectric Generators
- 16:40 Heating Load and COP Optimization of an Irreversible Quantum Brayton Heat Pump Working with Spin-1/2 Systems
- 17:00 A Numerical Analysis for the Dynamic Performance of a Multi-Purpose Solar Thermal System for Residential Applications
Other (not to be presensted but in proceedings)
Room: Mediterranea II
- Colburn j-Factor in the Transitional Flow Regime in a Plain Circular Tube with Twisted Tape Insert and Square-Edge Entry
- Area Goodness Factor of Flow in a Plain Circular Tube with Twisted Tape Insert and Square-Edge Entry in the Transitional Flow Regime
- Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity of Mango Bark/water Nanofluids
- Convection Heat Transfer with Water Based Mango Bark Nanofluids
- Pressure Drop in the Transitional Flow Regime of Annuli Associated with Mixed Convection
- Nanofluid Pool Boiling and Deposition on a Cylinder
Energy and environmental systems 2
Room: Emerald II
Chairs: Miroslav Grmela (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada), Alberto Guardone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- 15:40 Thermodynamic Performance Maps of Reciprocating-Piston Expanders for Operation at Off-Design and Part-Load Conditions
- 16:00 The Condensing Cycle for Heat Engines with Operating Temperatures from 50 to 100°C
- 16:20 Solar Collectors for Northern Countries
- 16:40 Design of an Experimental Set-up to Determine the Influence of Corrosion on Heat Transfer
- 17:00 Potential of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) for Waste Heat Recovery on an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
Wednesday, July 19 20:30 - 23:30
Banquet dinner
Room: Foyer area/Other area