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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Approach to Automated Detection of Sessile Droplets in Mixed Convection
A method for the measurement of position and size of sessile water droplets is presented. Droplets originate from condensation on a plane vertical surface in a vented cuboidal cavity with a mixed convective fl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling of Heat Transfer for Droplet Condensation in Mixed Convective Duct Flow
Temperature and humidity measurements are conducted in mixed convective humid-air duct flow with condensation. The latent and total heat transfer during the experiment are determined through the thermal balanc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterization of a Mixed Convection Cell Designed for Phase Transition Studies in Moist Air
A detailed description of an experimental set-up designed for upcoming investigations of latent and sensible heat transfer in a cuboid sample with air in- and outlets is given. The container is heated at the r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on the Influence of Turbulence on Thermal Comfort for Draft Air
Today you can find various standards to assess thermal comfort. However, it lacks on standards for the assessment of thermal comfort in car cabins, particularly in case of high momentum air-flow or draft. Ther...
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Open AccessExperimental study of moist air flow in the gap between the aircraft’s fuselage and its cabin wall
We carried out an experimental study on the moisture transfer and the heat transport in warm and humid air flows between the cabin lining and the fuselage skin. The measurements were performed in a rectangular...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Cooling of a Generic Car Cabin by Novel Ventilation Systems
A simplified state-of-the-art dashboard ventilation system was compared to novel ventilation concepts regarding the cooling dynamics in a full-scale generic car cabin (GCC). The concepts are based on the prin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reynolds Number Dependency of the Heat and Mass Transfer in Mixed Convective Duct Flow with Condensation at a Cooled Wall
Temperature and humidity measurements are performed in mixed convec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experimental Study on the Richardson Number Dependence of Large-Scale Flow Structures and Their Dynamics in a Miniaturised Aircraft Cabin
The flow structure formation and the dynamics in mixed convective air flow are studied experimentally in a miniaturised aircraft cabin equipped with thermal manikins. With the objective to obtain full-scale ch...
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Chapter
Large-scale Coherent Structures in Turbulent Mixed Convective Air Flow
We report on an experimental study of mixed convective air flow in a cuboidal container with an inlet and outlet slot at $$\mathcal {A} r = ...
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Chapter
A Method for Optical Measurements of Height Distributions in Transparent Media
As light passes the interface between two media with different densities, the light will be refracted which leads to an optical beam displacement. In this paper we present a simple optical and non-invasive mea...
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Chapter
Experimental Investigation of Flow Structure Formation in a Heated Duct Flow
The pattern formation of a Poiseuille flow in a rectangular duct, which is heated from below, is studied experimentally for the Reynolds number Re = 200 within the Rayleigh number range 4 ×108 ≤ Ra ≤ 7 ×108 . The...
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Risk factors for delayed graft function after renal transplantation and their significance for long-term clinical outcome
Delayed graft function (DGF) remains a grieving complication after renal transplantation. In this study, we examined various factors related to organ donation, transport, and transplantation for their influenc...
