... November 3, 2016; published online February 14, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Zhuomin Zhang. 31 05 2016 03 11 2016 metamaterials nanostructures absorber magnetic polarization Metamaterials (MMs), as an effective medium with artificial electromagnetic properties which are different...

... transfer irreversibilities. More details concerning the contribution of each kind of irreversibility to entropy generation through the falling film are graphically presented and discussed. entropy generation chemical reaction falling film absorber The notions of entropy and its generation...

.... Assoc. Editor: Wilson K. S. Chiu. 31 07 2013 05 03 2014 A Monte Carlo model is applied to determinate the steady state, solar-weighted optical properties of potential thermotropic composite materials for overheat protection of polymer solar absorbers. The key results...

...X.-Y. Cui; J.-Z. Shi; C. Tan; Z.-P. Xu The performance enhancement of absorbers is closely related to the investment costs of absorption cooling systems. In this paper, a new film-inverting design for plate falling film absorber is proposed. The absorber consists of consecutive inclined plates...

... of vapor absorption, the overall heat transfer coefficient of the 400 μ m absorber is in most cases significantly larger than that of other absorbers. For the 150 μ m and 400 μ m absorbers, a trade-off between the high overall heat and mass transfer coefficients is achieved for the highest vapor...

...Nitin Goel; D. Yogi Goswami This paper presents an experimental study of a new concept of using a screen mesh to enhance heat and mass transfer in a microchannel falling film absorber. Results of the experiments on the conventional and mesh-enhanced microchannel absorber designs are then reported...

...Nitin Goel; D. Yogi Goswami The paper presents a new design of a falling film absorber that could considerably reduce the absorber size without penalizing the vapor and coolant side pressure drops. The proposed design is based on the fundamental characteristics of an efficient absorber design...