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Lattice Boltzmann Method for Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer in Composite Materials
In this work, the utilization of lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) in the simulation of coupled conduction and radiation heat transfer in composite materials is studied. The novel D3Q30-LBM and D3Q38-LBM models a...
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Experimentation of a Membrane-based Concentration Gradient Energy Storage of Liquid Desiccant Solutions Driven by Solar Energy
Solar energy storage is an indispensable and sustainable utilization mode of renewable energy; environment friendly, large-capacity, low heat loss, and long-term storage are critical to improving the integrati...
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Experimental Study on Hybrid Organic Phase Change Materials Used for Solar Energy Storage
The solar energy utilization in built environment has been limited due to its low heat flux, uneven distribution in time and space and temporal difference in day and night. The phase change materials have been...
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Dust Devil Steady-State Structure from a Fluid Dynamics Perspective
Simple analytical models for the flow structure of dust devils in steady state, and a “thermophysical” scaling theory that explains how these flow structures are maintained are reviewed. Then, results from hig...
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Open AccessHistory and Applications of Dust Devil Studies
Studies of dust devils, and their impact on society, are reviewed. Dust devils have been noted since antiquity, and have been documented in many countries, as well as on the planet Mars. As time-variable vorte...
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Large-Eddy Simulations of Dust Devils and Convective Vortices
In this review, we address the use of numerical computations called Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) to study dust devils, and the more general class of atmospheric phenomena they belong to (convective vortices). ...
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Solution of N-S equations based on the quadtree cut cell method
With the characteristic of the quadtree data structure, a new mesh generation method, which adopts square meshes to decompose a background domain and a cut cell approach to express arbitrary boundaries, is pro...