supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51376101);the National Science Fund for Creative Research Groups(Grant No.51621062)
Spay cooling is a complicated flow and heat transfer process affected by multi-factors among which the environmental pressure is extremely important. However the influence of pressure is not investigated sufficiently,...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51376101);the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups(Grant No.51621062)
In this paper, the performance of a concentrating photovoltaic/thermal solar system is numerically analyzed with a mathematical and physical model. The variations of the electrical efficiency and the thermal efficienc...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51376101);the National Natural Science Fund for Creative Research Groups,China(Grant No.51621062)
Thermal optimization is very important for improving the performances of thermal systems. In engineering, the entropy generation minimization (EGM) has been widely used to optimize and evaluate the performances of t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51376101);the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups(Grant No.51321002)
The entransy theory has been applied to the analyses of heat-work conversion systems. The physical meaning and the applications of work entransy are analyzed and discussed in this paper. Work entransy, which is clarif...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51376101);the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups,China(Grant No.51321002)
Taking the output power, thermal efficiency, and thermo-economic performance as the optimization objectives, we optimize the operation parameters of a thermodynamic system with combined endoreversible Carnot heat engi...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51376101);Science Fund for Creative Research Groups(Grant No.51321002);Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program
The electrical power generation from low temperature heat source attracts more and more attentions but the temperature mismatching between the heat sources and working medium in the organic Rankine cycle(ORC)becomes a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51376101)
In this paper, the physical basis and application conditions of the entransy theory are reviewed and discussed. Entransy can be obtained from the analogy between heat and electrical conductions. It is a state value an...