Preliminary analysis of the sensitivity of the FEM model of the process of dry ice extrusion in the die with a circularly converging channel on the changing its geometrical parameters

The article presents the results of a preliminary analysis of the numerical model susceptibility for simulating the process of dry ice compaction utilizing single-channel and multiple channel dies. The work focuses on a preliminary comparison of the influence of changes in the geometrical parameters of the 4 types of compression channels. Based on the results of the performed analyses, conclusions were formulated for a basis and direction of further study regarding improving the energy efficiency of the indicated manufacturing process.

Flow Features of Thermophoretic MHD Viscous Fluid Flow Past a Converging Channel with Heat Source and Chemical Reaction

A boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting viscous fluid past a converging channel in the presence of thermophoresis, heat source, chemical reaction, viscous dissipation and simultaneous heat and mass transfer characteristics is studied in the paper. An external magnetic field of uniform strength is applied transversely to the channel. The similarity solution has been used to transform the partial differential equations that represent the problem into a boundary value problem of coupled ordinary differential equations, which in turn are solved numerically using MATLAB’s built in solver bvp4c. Numerical computations are carried out to solve the problem and graphical illustrations are made to get the physical insight of the same. The convergent channel flow problem of an incompressible electrically conducting viscous fluid in the presence of a magnetic field has a wide range of applicability in different areas of engineering, specially in industrial metal casting and control of molten metal flow.

The flow and heat performance of tree-like network heat sink with diverging–converging channel

A tree-like network heat sink with diverging–converging channel is designed, and effect of flow rate, channel diverging-converging angles on the flow and heat dissipation performance of the tree-like network heat sink is analysed and compared by numerical simulation. Results show that the diverging– converging angle of 2° can reduce the pressure drop by 14% when inlet mass flow rate is 0.00499kg/s. And the maximum temperature, the temperature difference between the maximum and minimum of the heat sink increases by 0.63K and 0.92K respectively. As the diverging-converging angle increases to 4°, however, it only reduces the pressure drop by 13% and can not bring more pressure drop due to formation of flow recirculation inside the tree-like network heat sink channel. Therefore, the diverging–converging fractal micro-channel heat sink with 2° has good heat dissipation performance with obvious lower pumping power.