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Advances in Thermofluids for Renewable Energy and Energy Management Applications

Numerical and Experimental Investigations

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Zied Driss, Haochun Zhang, Tullio Tucciarelli
  • Language: English

Advances in Thermofluids for Renewable Energy and Energy Management Applications: Numerical and Experimental Investigations brings together the latest research into how fluid… Read more

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Description

Advances in Thermofluids for Renewable Energy and Energy Management Applications: Numerical and Experimental Investigations brings together the latest research into how fluid mechanics and related approaches can be applied in the context of renewable energy and energy management. With numerous practical examples and case studies, this book explores applications across areas such as geothermal heat pumps, solar chimney, solar stills, solar thermal technologies, heat transfer, hybrid fuels, and water heating. This is a useful resource for all those with an interest in thermofluids, fluid mechanics, and computational fluid dynamics, as applied to renewable energy systems and energy management, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, technicians, and other professional experts.

Key features

  • Utilizes fluid mechanics to improve, and to address real world problems, in renewable energy systems and energy management
  • Includes applications in geothermal heat pumps, solar chimney, solar thermal technologies, hybrid fuels, and water heating
  • Employs experimental techniques to gain an understanding of underlying flow physics
  • Offers a practical approach, supported with examples and case studies

Readership

Researchers, advanced students, and faculty across energy systems, renewable energy, energy management, fluid mechanics, and thermal engineering

Table of contents

1. Introduction to thermofluids, computational fluid dynamics, and their applications in renewable energy systems and energy management

2. Geothermal heat pumps: Potential and prospect for energy efficiency, sustainable development, and the environment

3. Numerical and analytical analysis of thermo-economic scale factors of solar chimney power plants

4. Assessing mesh and turbulence model effects in CFD simulations of agricultural greenhouse airflow

5. Solar air heaters with and without thermal energy storage

6. Performance and emissions of IC engines fed with diesel-waste oil biodiesel blend

7. Numerical analysis of solar still productivity under Tunisia climate conditions – case study

8. 3-D numerical models for aerothermal performance of solar air collectors

9. Analyzing ambient temperature dynamics: Interplay of day length, declination, and meteorological parameters in Batna, Algeria – case study

10. Improving in-cylinder flow characteristics of IC engines using LPG-H2 fuel

11. Helical condenser coil geometry and its impact on heat transfer

12. Numerical analysis of thermal performance in helical coil heat exchangers for water heating applications

13. Experimental and numerical analysis of heat transfer in helically coiled tube heat exchangers

14. Coil diameter and operating characteristics of air-source heat pump water heaters

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

ZD

Zied Driss

Prof. Zied Driss is a Full Professor at the National School of Engineers, University of Sfax, in Tunisia. He received his Engineering diploma in 2001, his master’s degree in 2003, his PhD in 2008, and his HDR in 2013 in Mechanical Engineering from ENIS at the University of Sfax. Prof. Driss is interested in the development of numerical and experimental techniques for solving problems in mechanical engineering and energy applications.

Affiliations and expertise
National School of Engineers, University of Sfax, Tunisia

HZ

Haochun Zhang

Prof. Haochun Zhang is currently a Full Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1999, his master’s degree in 2001, and his PhD in 2007 in Engineering Thermophysics, from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Prof. Zhang’s research covers high performance computing in energy conversion process, modern thermodynamics, renewable energy, advanced nuclear systems, innovate thermal control technology, photoelectric characteristics, and AI applications.

Affiliations and expertise
School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TT

Tullio Tucciarelli

Prof. Tullio Tucciarelli is a Full Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Palermo, in Italy. He received master’s degrees in civil engineering in 1982, and in geological sciences in 1986, at the University of Palermo. He received his PhD at Princeton University, United States, in 1994. Prof. Tucciarelli is interested in the development of numerical and experimental techniques for the optimal design of hydraulic turbines, numerical simulation of floods, and water distribution network modelling.
Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy