Environmental impacts of large-scale CSP plants in northwestern China

Z Wu, A Hou, C Chang, X Huang, D Shi… - … Science: Processes & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Several concentrated solar power demonstration plants are being constructed, and a few
commercial plants have been announced in northwestern China. However, the mutual impacts …

Tomography-based investigation of flow and heat transfer inside reticulated porous ceramics

R Wang, AP Hou, Z Wu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the flow and heat transfer within reticulated porous ceramics, with the
aim of enhancing the understanding of phenomena occurring at the pore scale in order to …

Investigation on stall inception of axial compressor under inlet rotating distortion

M Zhang, A Hou - … of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper applies a numerical approach to improve the understanding of reaction to various
inflow conditions for the compressor system and the mechanism of stall inception under …

Performance estimation method for nonuniform tip clearance cases

Y Chen, A Hou, W Wang, M Zhang - Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper mainly investigates the effect of circumferential nonuniform tip clearance on the
performance of compressors. Initially, three-dimensional full-annulus simulations are …

Effects of nonuniform tip clearance on fan performance and flow field

Y Chen, A Hou, M Zhang, J Li… - … Expo: Power for …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Nonuniform tip clearance, caused by the deformation of the casing (casing ovalization),
exists in all fans to some extent. However, description of the flow behavior with this kind of …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal Design of Boundary Angle for Gas Foil Thrust Bearing Thermal Performance

B Hu, A Hou, R Deng, X Yang, Z Wu, Q Ni, Z Li - Lubricants, 2024 - mdpi.com
As the energy density and efficiency requirements of air compressors continue to increase,
gas foil thrust bearings face a high risk of thermal failure due to their elevated speed and …

Study on the intelligent modeling of the blade aerodynamic force in compressors based on machine learning

M Zhang, S Hao, A Hou - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In order to obtain the aerodynamic loads of the vibrating blades efficiently, the eXterme
Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm in machine learning was adopted to establish a three-…

Flow control of annular compressor cascade by synthetic jets

X Zheng, S Zhou, Y Lu, A Hou, Q Li - 2008 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
An experimental investigation conducted in a stationary annular cascade wind tunnel
demonstrated that unsteady flow control using synthetic jets (zero mass flux) could effectively …

Analysis on the reduction of rotor blade vibration using asymmetric vane spacing

T Sun, A Hou, M Zhang, Y Niu… - … Expo: Power for …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Asymmetric vane spacing design has drawn the attention of many researchers as a targeted
and potential method of controlling the blade forced response. In this paper, we studied the …

Separation control using synthetic vortex generator jets in axial compressor cascade

X Zheng, S Zhou, A Hou, Z Jiang, D Ling - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2006 - Springer
An experimental investigation conducted in a high-speed plane cascade wind tunnel
demonstrates that unsteady flow control by using synthetic (zero mass flux) vortex generator jets …