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Multistep simulation for three-dimensional ice accretion on an aircraft wing (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Huang, J., Cao, Y., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2016, January). Multistep simulation for three-dimensional ice accretion on an aircraft wing. Paper presented at 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California

A simplified icing model combined with Eulerian two-phase flow theory has been proposed and the method was employed for direct simulation of ice accretion occurred on an aircraft wing. An innovative wall boundary condition treatment has been proposed... Read More about Multistep simulation for three-dimensional ice accretion on an aircraft wing.

Proton modified Pt zeolite fuel cell electrocatalysts (2015)
Book Chapter
Yao, J., Yao, Y., & Mirzaii, H. (2015). Proton modified Pt zeolite fuel cell electrocatalysts. In A. Sayigh (Ed.), Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol I (173-182). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17777-9_16

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. NaY zeolite has been selected as a suitable material to host 1.5 wt.% platinum (Pt) loading on zeolite using ion-exchange methods of Pt(NH3)4(NO3)2 without excess NH4NO3 nitrate and Pt(NH3)4(NO3)2... Read More about Proton modified Pt zeolite fuel cell electrocatalysts.

Experimental study of characteristics of bimetallic Pt-Fe nano-particle fuel cell electrocatalyst (2015)
Journal Article
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2015). Experimental study of characteristics of bimetallic Pt-Fe nano-particle fuel cell electrocatalyst. Renewable Energy, 81, 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.03.031

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The characteristics of 1.5wt% Platinum (Pt) loading on Fe incorporated Y zeolite (Pt-Fe/Y zeolite) nano-electrocatalysts have been experimentally studied by the extended X-ray adsorption fine structure (EXAFS) and cyclic voltamme... Read More about Experimental study of characteristics of bimetallic Pt-Fe nano-particle fuel cell electrocatalyst.

CFD of air/water two-phase flow in small horizontal pipe (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2015, July). CFD of air/water two-phase flow in small horizontal pipe. Paper presented at The First Chinese International Conference on CFD, Mianyang, China

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been applied to investigate air/water two-phase flow characteristics in an 8.8mm I.D small horizontal pipe. Simulation has successfully predicted water film thickness using newly developed user defined wave func... Read More about CFD of air/water two-phase flow in small horizontal pipe.

Numerical optimisation of thermal comfort improvement for indoor environment with occupants and furniture (2015)
Journal Article
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2015). Numerical optimisation of thermal comfort improvement for indoor environment with occupants and furniture. Energy and Buildings, 88, 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.12.015

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Indoor thermal environment of a 3-D ventilated room was studied by computational fluid dynamics to understand correlations between heat generation, ventilation velocity and thermal sensation indices. The exis... Read More about Numerical optimisation of thermal comfort improvement for indoor environment with occupants and furniture.

Proton modified Pt zeolite fuel cell electrocatalysts (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Yao, J., Yao, Y., & Mirzaii, H. (2014, August). Proton modified Pt zeolite fuel cell electrocatalysts. Paper presented at World Renewable Energy Congress WREC XIII, London, UK

NaY Zeolite is selected as a suitable material to host 1.5 wt% Platinum (Pt) loading on zeolite using ion exchange method (a) Pt(NH3)4(NO3)2 without excess NH4NO3 nitrate and (b) Pt(NH3)4(NO3)2 with excess NH4NO3 nitrate. The structure/reactivity rel... Read More about Proton modified Pt zeolite fuel cell electrocatalysts.

Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill (2014)
Journal Article
Castagna, J., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2014). Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill. Computers and Fluids, 95, 116-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2014.02.014

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill has been carried out to study the three-dimensional flow separation and reattachment that occur on the lee-side of the geometry. The flow Reynolds number is Re H=6500, ba... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill.

Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Effendy, M., Yao, Y., Yao, J., & Marchant, D. R. (2014). Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0279

This paper describes numerical studies of the film cooling performance of cutback trailing-edge gas turbine blades using the detached eddy simulation (DES) approach, in order to improve results obtained by industry standard steady RANS and unsteady R... Read More about Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation.

Modelling conjugate flow and heat transfer in a ventilated room for indoor thermal comfort assessment (2014)
Journal Article
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2014). Modelling conjugate flow and heat transfer in a ventilated room for indoor thermal comfort assessment. Building and Environment, 77, 135-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.03.027

Conjugate natural and forced convection heat transfers in a domestic model room of finite-thickness walls and a heat source have been numerically studied. A 2-D non-ventilated square model room with a heat source is investigated at first for conditio... Read More about Modelling conjugate flow and heat transfer in a ventilated room for indoor thermal comfort assessment.

Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage (2013)
Journal Article
Effendy, M., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2013). Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 315, 216-220. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.315.216

This paper studies the effect of mesh topologies such as hybrid and structured meshes on the evaluation of wall heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and pressure loss of a blade cooling passage. An experimental model is chosen; it has five-row of stream w... Read More about Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage.

Evaluation of wall heat transfer in blade trailing-edge cooling passage (2013)
Journal Article
Yao, Y., Effendy, M., & Yao, J. (2013). Evaluation of wall heat transfer in blade trailing-edge cooling passage. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 284-287, 738-742. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.284-287.738

Model configurations of a blade trailing-edge internal cooling passage with staggered elliptic pin-fins in streamwise and spanwise are adopted for numerical investigation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Grid refinement study is performed at... Read More about Evaluation of wall heat transfer in blade trailing-edge cooling passage.

Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room (2012)
Journal Article
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(4), 317-333. https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2012005093

Numerical simulation of airflow in an indoor environment has been carried out for forced, natural, and mixed convection modes, respectively, by using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach of solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equat... Read More about Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room.

Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room. https://doi.org/10.1615/ICHMT.2012.CHT-12.730

Numerical simulation of airflow in an indoor environment has been carried out for forced, natural and mixed convection modes respectively, by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach of solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations.... Read More about Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room.

Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Castagna, J., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-98

Simulation of a turbulent °ow over an axisymmetric hill has been carried out to study three-dimensional °ow separation and reattachment that occur on the lee-side of the geome-try. A total of four simulations are considered at low Reynolds number of... Read More about Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill.

CFD prediction and experimental measurement of blade water coverage in a diesel turbocharger (2012)
Journal Article
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2012). CFD prediction and experimental measurement of blade water coverage in a diesel turbocharger. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, 2012, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/789563

A turbocharger unit for diesel engine is often equipped with a built-in online water washing system and its performance is not always satisfactory because of efficiency declination due to deposit accumulated on blade surfaces not being washed away. I... Read More about CFD prediction and experimental measurement of blade water coverage in a diesel turbocharger.

Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow (2012)
Journal Article
Yao, Y., Maidi, M., & Yao, J. (2012). Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, 2012, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/632040

Numerical studies have been performed to visualize vortical flow structures emerged from jet cross-flow interactions. A single square jet issuing perpendicularly into a cross-flow was simulated first, followed by two additional scenarios, that is, in... Read More about Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow.