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    Flow Boiling of Water in a Rectangular Metallic Microchannel
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2021-03-26) ÖZDEMİR, MEHMED RAFET; Ozdemir, Mehmed Rafet; Mahmoud, Mohamed M.; Karayiannis, Tassos G.
    The article presents the experimental results of flow boiling of water in single rectangular microchannels. Three rectangular copper microchannels having the same hydraulic diameter (0.56 mm) and length (62 mm) but different aspect ratios (width/height, 0.5, 2.56, and 4.94) were investigated using de-ionized water as the working fluid. The experiments were conducted over the experimental range of mass flux 200-800 kg/(m(2)s), heat flux 4-1350 kW/m(2) and inlet subcooling of similar to 14 K. The results showed that the channel with smaller aspect ratio exhibited better heat transfer performance up to certain heat fluxes (similar to 480-500 kW/m(2)), whilst the effect of channel aspect ratio became insignificant for higher heat fluxes. The flow boiling patterns were observed and the main flow regimes were bubbly, slug, churn, and annular flow. Flow reversal was also observed that caused a periodic flow in the two microchannels having smaller aspect ratio. A comparison of the experimental results with widely used macro and micro-scale heat transfer correlations is presented. The macro-scale correlations failed to predict the experimental data while some micro-scale correlations could predict the data reasonably well.
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    Influence of piston bowl geometry on combustion and emission characteristics
    (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2019) ÖZDEMİR, MEHMED RAFET; Sener, Ramazan; Ozdemir, Mehmed R.; Yangaz, Murat U.
    Together with the global energy concerns, the norms are getting stringent to prevent the emission threat. There are on-going studies on systems working with both fossil and renewable energy sources aiming to create more efficient and less emissive processes and devices. Accordingly, a set of numerical simulations was performed to examine the effect of the bowl shape of a piston on the performance behaviour, emission rates and combustion characteristics in a four-cylinder, four strokes, water-cooled compression ignition engine using n-heptane (C7H16) as fuel. Six different piston bowl geometries, five from the literature and proposed one, were utilized having different length-to-diameter ratio, curvature and sidewall radius. The study was conducted at 1750 r/min engine speed and a constant compression ratio with a full performance condition. The intake and exhaust valves have been considered as closed during the analysis to provide the variation of crank angle from 300 CA to 495 CA. The results showed that the piston bowl geometry has a significant impact on the rate of heat release, in-cylinder pressure, in-cylinder temperature, and emission trends in the engine. Among the piston bowl geometries studied, design DE and design DF exhibited better combustion characteristics and relatively lower emission trends compared to other designs. The observed rate of heat release, in-cylinder pressure and in-cylinder temperature magnitudes of these two geometries was higher in comparison to other geometries. Moreover, the trade-off for NOx emission was also observed higher for these piston bowl designs.
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    Pool boiling heat transfer of ferrofluids on structured hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces: The effect of magnetic field
    (ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER, 2020) ÖZDEMİR, MEHMED RAFET; Sadaghiani, A. K.; Rajabnia, H.; Celik, S.; Noh, H.; Kwak, H. J.; Nejatpour, M.; Park, H. S.; Acar, H. Y.; Misirlioglu, I. B.; Ozdemir, M. R.; Kosar, A.
    The combined effect of external magnetic field and surface modification on boiling heat transfer of ferrofluids was investigated in this study. Experiments were performed on suspensions of Fe3O4 nanoparticles (volume fraction of 0.025% vf%) with and without presence of magnetic field on structured (surfaces with artificial cavities) hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces. Surface related effects such as the hole diameter, pitch size and surface wettability on boiling heat transfer were revealed using the high speed camera system. According to the obtained results, application of magnetic field enhanced boiling heat transfer. The effect of magnetic field was more pronounced on surfaces with larger pitch sizes. Magnetic field promoted bubble nucleation on the superheated surfaces by generating an additional force via Fe3O4 nanoparticles, resulting in enhanced bubblebubble interactions and coalescence. Furthermore, the surfaces with the larger cavity diameter performed better in terms of heat transfer. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images showed that as the cavity diameter decreased, deposited nanoparticles tended to completely fill the cavities on hydrophilic surfaces and thus deteriorate boiling heat transfer. On hydrophobic surfaces, deposition of nanoparticles led to a biphilic surface, thereby enhancing boiling heat transfer. As the cavity size increased, smaller portion of the cavities was filled with nanoparticles, and nucleation could still occur from the nucleation sites.