Electrohydrodynamic acceleration of charging process in a latent heat thermal energy storage module

RD Selvakumar, J Wu, AK Alkaabi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Phase change material (PCM) based latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) is a
popular technique owing to its high energy storage density, scalability, and near-constant …

Mixing and transport enhancement in microchannels by electrokinetic flows with charged surface heterogeneity

Y Guan, T Yang, J Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electrokinetic flow in a microchannel driven by charged surface heterogeneity in the
presence of an external electric field is investigated by three-dimensional simulations. A …

Monotonic instability and overstability in two-dimensional electrothermohydrodynamic flow

Y Guan, X He, Q Wang, Z Song, M Zhang, J Wu - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Electrothermohydrodynamic convection driven by strong unipolar charge injection in the
presence of a stabilizing inverse thermal gradient between two parallel electrodes is …

Numerical investigation of instability and transition to chaos in electro-convection of dielectric liquids between concentric cylinders

J Huang, Q Wang, Y Guan, Z Du… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The two-dimensional (2D) electro-convection (EC) flow of dielectric liquids between two
concentric cylindrical electrodes driven by unipolar injection of ions is investigated …

Full bifurcation scenarios and pattern formation of laminar electroconvection in a cavity

Y Zhang, D Chen, A Liu, K Luo, J Wu, H Yi - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This study numerically investigates the flow structures and bifurcation scenarios of three-
dimensional (3D) laminar electroconvection (EC). An efficient parallel lattice Boltzmann …

Application of large eddy simulation models to electroconvection turbulence study with lattice Boltzmann method

Y Zhang, K Luo, H Yi, A Liu, J Wu - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Electroconvection (EC) turbulence is an important branch of electrohydrodynamics (EHD).
Because the turbulence model for EHD has not been well studied, in this work we apply the …

Magnetohydrodynamic Effects on Double Diffusion of Non‐Newtonian Hybrid Nanofluid in Circular Eccentric Annuli

IJ Supti, MM Molla, P Nag, S Siddiqa… - Engineering …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The numerical investigation conducted in this study focuses on the heat and mass transfer in
magnetohydrodynamic non‐Newtonian power‐law fluid flow of temperature‐dependent …

Instability of electroconvection in viscoelastic fluids induced by strong unipolar injection between two coaxial cylinders

ZY Zhang, TF Li, ZG Su, J Wu, HL Yi - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
In this paper, a detailed two-dimensional numerical study on the nonlinear behaviors of
electrohydrodynamic flows of Oldroyd-B viscoelastic dielectric liquid between two coaxial …

An investigation of the electroconvection flow and solid extraction during melting of phase-change materials

A Hassan, JS Cotton - Journal of Electrostatics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents numerical and experimental investigations of electrohydrodynamic
(EHD) flow and solid extraction during melting of phase-change materials (PCMs) in a …

Investigation of the role of charge injection and Coulomb force during the melting of phase-change materials under constant temperature boundary conditions

A Hassan, JS Cotton - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an investigation of the melting of dielectric material in a rectangular
cavity under the effect of electrohydrodynamics (EHD). First, phase-change modeling is …