A theory-based prediction method was used to estimate the friction factor and heat transfer rate in the turbulent flow of a helically coiled tube. The secondary flow produced by a centrifugal force improves heat and mass transfer; therefore, spiral c...
We present a modified k-ε model with a set of wall-functions suitable for reconstruction of sensible heat and momentum fluxes from the observations data (e.g., surface temperature evolution during the diurnal cycle). The modification takes in...
Quantifying the time and space scale variability in air–sea fluxes is challenging. This study adopts tower-based in situ observations in the northern South China Sea (SCS) to evaluate widely used reanalysis and CO2 flux products. For heat and m...
This study investigated surface layer turbulence characteristics and parameters using 20 Hz eddy covariance data collected from five heights with winds up to 42.27 m s−1 when Super Typhoon Maria (2018) made landfall. The dependence of these par...
In Eastern Asia, two categories of cold air outbreaks, ordinary type and extensive and persistent type, usually occur during boreal winter, with obviously different circulation backgrounds. Blocking highs, which play an important role in cold events,...
We apply principles of Gibbs phase plane chemistry across the entire ocean-atmosphere interface to investigate aerosol generation and geophysical transfer issues. Marine surface tension differences comprise a tangential pressure field controlling tra...
Using bulk formulas, two-year platform (fastened to the seabed) hourly observations from 2016 to 2017 in the East China Sea (121.6° E, 32.4° N) are used to investigate the role of the tide-induced surface elevation in changing the fixed obser...
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of Mach = 2.9 supersonic turbulent boundary layers with spanwise wall oscillation (SWO) are conducted to investigate the turbulent heat transport mechanism and its relation with the turbulent momentum transport. The...
Current earth observation models do not take into account the influence of water salinity on the evaporation rate, even though the salinity influences the evaporation rate by affecting the density and latent heat of vaporization. In this paper, we ad...
A reverse-flow combustor has a larger liner surface area due to airflow turning, which complicates flow and cooling control, particularly heat transfer efficiency. Effective heat management is essential for maintaining uniform temperature distributio...
With the rapid deployment of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants, the impact of PV plants on the environment is a new concern of the scientific and social communities. The exchange of sensible and latent heat energy and mass between land and air i...
Flux–profile relationships are crucial for parametrizing surface fluxes of momentum and heat, that are of central relevance for applications such as climate modelling and weather forecast. Nevertheless, their functional forms are still under discussi...
Tropical cyclones have long been known to be powered by turbulent enthalpy fluxes from the ocean’s surface and slowed by turbulent momentum fluxes into the surface. Here, we review evidence that the development and structure of these storms are...
Novel nonlinear power-law flux models were utilized to model the heat transport phe-nomenon in nano-micropolar fluid over a flexible surface. The nonlinear conservation laws (mass, momentum, energy, mass transport and angular momentum) and KKL cor-re...
Surface waves and sea spray play a significant role in air–sea fluxes in high winds. The present study used a marine atmosphere surface layer (MASL), which couples the traditional Monin–Obukhov similarity theory, sea spray generation func...
This study investigates heat and mass transfer under natural convection flow along a vertical permeable surface with variable wall heat fluxes through a porous medium. The non-Darcian model is employed for the medium. The effects of suction/blowing,...
This work presents a heat transfer and boiling model that computes the evolution of the temperature field in a representative steel workpiece quenched from 850 or 930 °C by immersion in water flowing at average velocities of 0.2 or 0.6 m/s, respe...
The spray and combustion characteristics of a gas-centered swirl coaxial (GCSC) injector used in oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle engines were analyzed. The study focused on varying the recess ratio, presence of gas swirl, and swirl direction to...
Surface turbulent heat fluxes are crucial for monitoring drought, heat waves, urban heat islands, agricultural water management, and other hydrological applications. Energy Balance Models (EBMs) are widely used to simulate surface heat fluxes from a...
Changes in atmospheric circulation can be influenced by the collapse characteristics of the polar vortex, a significant system in the Northern Hemisphere. This study reveals the spatiotemporal evolution and causative mechanisms of the collapse of the...
The objective of this work was to study climate variability and its impacts on the temperature of Sobradinho Lake in Northeast Brazil. Surface weather station data and lake measurements were used in this study. The model applied in this work is FLake...
Quadrant analysis has been widely used to investigate the turbulent characteristics in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Although quadrant analysis can identify turbulent structures that contribute significantly to turbulent fluxes, the approach...
Mediterranean eddies (meddies) play an essential role in transferring heat, salinity and momentum into the Atlantic Ocean. The rate of heat (and salt) flux from the meddy and its ultimate lifetime are key proxies to understanding how meddies impact t...
New sampling techniques such as tethered-balloon-based measurements or small unmanned aerial vehicles are capable of providing multiple profiles of the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer (MASL) in a short time period. It is desirable to obtain surface...
Sea surface temperature (SST) responses have been perceived as crucial to consequential tropical cyclone (TC) intensity development. In addition to regular cooling responses, a few TCs could cause extreme SST drops (ESSTDs) (e.g., SST drops more than...
The GRAPES (Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System) global medium-range forecast system (GRAPES_GFS) is a new generation numerical weather forecast model developed by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). However, the forecasts o...
To explore the influence of complex terrain on wind characteristics of the surface layer and to better develop and utilize wind energy resources of high-altitude regions in central and western China, two typical topographies: the Qiaodi Village in Si...
The measurement of turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric boundary layer is usually performed using fast anemometers and the Eddy Covariance technique. This method has been applied here and investigated in a complex mountainous terrain. A field campaign...
The turbulent transport dissimilarity between momentum and scalars and the transport similarity among scalars have been widely investigated in unstable atmospheric boundary layers (ABLs). Although buoyancy and mechanically driven turbulence, along wi...
The intensity and structure of simulated tropical cyclones (TCs) are known to be sensitive to the planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterization in numerical weather prediction models. In this paper, we use an idealized version of the Hurricane Weat...
A field experiment was carried out to calibrate and evaluate the METRIC (Mapping EvapoTranspiration at high Resolution Internalized with Calibration) model for estimating the spatial and temporal variability of instantaneous net radiation (Rni), soil...
This paper addresses entropy generation in the flow of an electrically-conducting couple stress nanofluid through a vertical porous channel subjected to constant heat flux. By using the Buongiorno model, equations for momentum, energy, and nanofluid...
The Brazilian region of Pantanal is one of the largest wetlands in the world, characterized by a wet season, in which it is covered by a shallow water layer, and a dry season, in which the water layer disappears. The aim of this study is the estimati...
Heat transfer enhancement employing an elliptical tube inside a circular tube to increase the heat transfer rate without increasing in pressure drop is investigated. The flow rate inside the narrow is in the range of Reynolds number 10,000 to 100,000...
Accurate calculation of the whitecap fraction is of great importance for the estimation of air-sea momentum flux, heat flux and sea-salt aerosol flux in Earth system models. Past whitecap fraction parameterizations were mostly power functions of wind...
To study the dynamical mechanism by which Arctic amplification affects extreme weather events in mid-latitude, we investigated the local and remote circulation response to pan-Arctic and regional Arctic thermal forcing. A comprehensive atmospheric GC...
In this paper, dynamic interactions between the FeAl particles and the gaseous detonation stream during supersonic D-gun spraying (DGS) conditions into the water are discussed in detail. Analytical and numerical models for the prediction of momentum...
Cape Town, South Africa, experiences coastal upwelling during austral summer. In this study, the effects of kinematic and thermal ‘roughness’ on wind stress are analyzed using 5–25 km resolution multi-satellite and coupled reanalysi...
This work established a numerical model to investigate the heat transfer characteristics and wall film formation of spray impinging on the wall in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system. The model is developed by the Eulerian–Lagrangian...
Design of cooling systems for rotor platforms is critical due to the complex flow field and heat transfer phenomena related to the secondary flow structures originating at the blade leading edge. Horseshoe vortex and passage vortex are the fluid-dyna...
Passive solar desalination with no discharge promises great potential for sustainable desalination. Herein, we provide a comprehensive modelling scheme for the investigation of coupled heat and mass transport in passive desalination devices. Our mode...
An indirect method and procedure for determining the local heat transfer coefficient in experimental studies on the intensity of heat transfer at a gas–surface interface is described. The article provides an overview of modern approaches and te...
Antarctic Total Column Ozone (TCO) gradually began to recover around 2000, and a large number of studies have pointed out that the recovery of the Antarctic TCO is most significant in the austral early spring (September). Based on the Bodeker Scienti...
The parameterization of heat transfer based on remote sensing data, and the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) scheme to retrieve turbulent heat fluxes, already proved to be very appropriate for estimating evapotranspiration (ET) over homogeneous l...
Electromagnetic Railguns Face Severe Ablation and Melting Risks Due to Extremely High Transient Thermal Loads During High-Speed Launching, Directly Impacting Launch Reliability and Service Life. To address this thermal management challenge, this stud...
Thermal loading by radiant heaters is used in building heating and hot structure design applications. In this research, characteristics of the thermal radiative heating of an enclosure by a distinct heater are investigated from the second law of ther...
A method to estimate the sensible heat flux (H) for unstable atmospheric condition requiring measurements taken in half-hourly basis as input and involving the land surface temperature (LST), HLST, was tested over a tall and dense aspen stand. The me...
Direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of spatially developing thermal turbulent boundary layers over angle-ribbed walls were performed. Four rib angles (γ=90°,60°,45° and 30°) were examined. It was found that the 45° ribs prod...
An ensemble of regional climate change scenarios for the North Sea is validated and analyzed. Five Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) General Circulation Models (GCMs) using three different Representative Concentration Pathways (RC...
This paper examines current understanding of the influence of orographic flow dynamics on the turbulent transport of momentum and scalar quantities above complex terrain. It highlights three key low-level orographic flow phenomena governed by gravity...
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