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Computational study of hole shape effect on film cooling performance (2011)
Journal Article
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2011). Computational study of hole shape effect on film cooling performance. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 225(4), 505-519. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650911399013

Film cooling effectiveness has been studied by using a computational approach based on solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. A wind tunnel test configuration is considered with a total of four cooling hole geometries as a cylindrical... Read More about Computational study of hole shape effect on film cooling performance.

Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade cooling effectiveness (2010)
Journal Article
Yao, J., Sian, S., Yao, Y., & Davis, T. W. (2010). Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade cooling effectiveness. Modern Physics Letters B, 24(13), 1295-1298. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984910023463

Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade adiabatic cooling effectiveness has been carried out on four geometry models comprising a standard cylindrical hole, a cylindrical hole with an upstream ramp, a shaped diffuser, and a double console slot.... Read More about Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade cooling effectiveness.

Numerical simulation of heat transfer in rectangular microchannel (2009)
Journal Article
Yao, J., Yao, Y., Mason, P. J., & Patel, M. K. (2009). Numerical simulation of heat transfer in rectangular microchannel. Advances in applied mathematics and mechanics, 1(2), 231-241

Numerical simulation of heat transfer in a high aspect ratio rectangular microchannel with heat sinks has been conducted, similar to an experimental study. Three channel heights measuring 0.3 mm, 0.6mmand 1mmare considered and the Reynolds number var... Read More about Numerical simulation of heat transfer in rectangular microchannel.

CFD modelling of water injection for turbine blade cleaning (2009)
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Yao, J., Yao, Y., Mason, P., Zhang, T., Heyes, F. J. G., & Roach, P. E. (2009). CFD modelling of water injection for turbine blade cleaning. Modern Physics Letters B, 23(3), 341-344. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984909018357

CFD modeling of water injection for turbine blade cleaning has been carried out to predict the water coverage on a stationary blade row, which will enable a better understanding on the interactions between hot-air flow and cold-water droplets. A gene... Read More about CFD modelling of water injection for turbine blade cleaning.

On reynolds number and scaling effects in microchannel flows (2007)
Journal Article
Mason, P. J., Yao, J., Yao, Y., & Patel, M. K. (2007). On reynolds number and scaling effects in microchannel flows. European Physical Journal: Applied Physics, 37(2), 229-235. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap%3A2007010

This paper presents a numerical study of the Reynolds number and scaling effects in microchannel flows. The configuration includes a rectangular, high-aspect ratio microchannel with heat sinks, similar to an experimental setup. Water at ambient tempe... Read More about On reynolds number and scaling effects in microchannel flows.

Direct numerical simulation of jets in cross-flow (2006)
Journal Article
Yao, Y., Petty, D., Barrington, P., Yao, J., & Mason, P. (2006). Direct numerical simulation of jets in cross-flow. International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 20(5), 279-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618560600909945

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of jets in cross-flow (JICF) has been carried out in this study, aiming for the investigation of vortex structure formation and evolution process associated with JICF. A recently developed DNS code is used, which sol... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of jets in cross-flow.