Seminar on Phase Change Heat Transfer in Porous Media Based on Macro and Micro Scales

24 Jul 2024 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM MAE Meeting Room D (Blk N3.2-02-59) Current Students, Public

Professor Zhenqian CHEN

Southeast University 

This seminar will be chaired by A/P Fei Duan.

Seminar Abstract
Phase change heat transfer in porous media is widely used in energy, power and environment system. Because of the geometric complexity of porous media and the nonlinear characteristic of phase change heat transfer, a detailed study on heat transfer in the porous media will be presented based on macro and micro scales. A two temperature model is used to study the heat transfer in porous media due to the thermal difference between the porous matrix and fluid. The fractal geometry method is applied to describe pore structure and pore distribution. The lattice Boltzmann method is adopted to solve the multi-scale simulation of phase change heat transfer in porous media.
    Speaker’s Biography​

    Dr. Zhenqian Chen is a full professor in the school of energy and environment at Southeast University and the director of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Solar Energy Technology, China. He obtained Ph.D. degree at Southeast University in 1995, and was working as Postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, University of Washington, and University of Toronto respectively from 1998 to 2003. Professor Chen’s research interests include heat and mass transfer, renewable energy utilization, fluid physics in microgravity, HVAC system, etc. He has published more than 200 Journal papers, and owned more than 20 patents. He got the first Minkowycz award-for best paper on International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

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