A.Wakif^a,* , Z. Boulahia^a, A. Amine^b , I.L. Animasaun^c , M. I. Afridi^d, M. Qasim^d , R. Sehaqui^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.12, pp. 1-15, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.12.3

Abstract The significance of an externally applied magnetic field and an imposed negative temperature gradient on the onset of natural convection in a thin horizontal layer of alumina-water nanofluid for various sizes of spherical alumina nanoparticles (e.g., 30 More >

Felix Schily^a,∗, Wolfgang Polifke^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.17, pp. 1-15, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.17.16

Abstract A simple open-loop pulsating heat pipe model is proposed, which allows to analytically determine the start-up behavior by a linear stability analysis. Two distinct types of instability can occur in such a pulsating heat pipe: oscillatory and non-oscillatory. This paper demonstrates that for bubbles consisting of non-condensible gas, large temperature gradients along the wall are required to achieve start-up, whereas start-up is fairly easy to achieve when there is only a single working medium that forms bubbles from its vapor. The study also finds that surface tension as such only influences start-up indirectly, while contact angle hysteresis dampens out any… More >