Nomenclature
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Development and applications of PHP
1.2.1 Development of PHP
1.2.2 Applications of PHP in novel fields
1.3 Conventional and non-conventional working fluids
1.3.1 Conventional working fluids
1.3.2 Non-conventional working fluids
1.4 Objectives of this research
1.5 Methodology of this research
1.6 Thesis organization
Chapter 2 Design parameters of PHP and Experimental methodology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Design parameters of PHP
2.2.1 Evacuating pressure
2.2.2 Inclination
2.2.3 Fill ratio and heat input
2.3 Design of PHP and experimental methodology
2.4 Experimental set-up and procedure for visualization experiment
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Experimental study on start-up characteristics and thermal performance of PHP
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Start-up characteristics of PHP
3.2 Procedure of experiment
3.2.1 Data processing
3.3 Start-up characteristics of PHP
3.4 Thermal performance measurement
3.4.1 Effects of surface tension and viscosity
3.4.2 Effects of heat loads
3.4.3 Effects of concentrations of surfactants
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Operational mechanism analysis of PHP based on flow visualization
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Operation mechanism of PHP
4.2.1 Visualization technique
4.3 Flow pattern in the start-up state
4.4 Flow pattern in the quasi-steady state
4.4.1 Dominating flow characteristics
4.4.2 Bubble detachments
4.4.3 Special cases of CTAC
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Numerical simulation of thermal performance of PHP
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Numerical modeling of PHP
5.2 Computational modeling of the PHP
5.2.1 Governing Equations
5.3 Boundary conditions
5.4 Properties of working fluid
5.5 Thermal performance of PHP
5.6 Flow patterns at different FR
5.7 Summary
Conclusions
Future works
参考文献
Papers published during the Ph.D. education
声明
致谢
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