Vapour explosions are a known hazard with potentially devastating consequences in several industries. They might occur when a hot liquid comes into direct contact with a cold and volatile liquid. Eutectic PbS-Cu2S droplet impingement experiments were performed to investigate the effect of the coolant composition on the vapour explosion behaviour. T...
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Managing temperatures of lithium-ion cells in battery packs is crucial to ensuring their safe operation. However, thermal information provided on typical cell datasheets is insufficient to identify which cells can be easily thermally managed. The Cell Cooling Coefficient (CCC) aims to fill this gap, as a metric that defines the thermal dissipation ...
The surface tension (ST) of metallic alloys is a key property in many processing techniques. Notably, the ST value of liquid metals is crucial in additive manufacturing processes as it has a direct effect on the stability of the melt pool. Although several theoretical models have been proposed to describe the ST, mainly in binary systems, both expe...
Thermal management is of upmost importance for the safe and efficient operation of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. To this purpose it is required to develop reliable thermal models to assess the behavior of the battery under different operating and ambient conditions. In this work, it is proposed a three-dimensional thermal model of the...
Thermal management is of upmost importance for the safe and efficient operation of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. To this purpose it is required to develop reliable thermal models to assess the behavior of the battery under different operating and ambient conditions. In this work, it is proposed a three-dimensional thermal model of the...
status: published
We report the speeds of sound in liquid toluene (methylbenzene) measured using double-path pulse-echo apparatus independently at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Imperial College London (ICL). The UWA data were measured at temperatures between (306 and 423) K and at pressures up to 65 MPa with standard uncertainties of between (0.02 an...
The methodology development and applications of ReaxFF molecular dynamics (ReaxFF MD) in unraveling the complex reactions and kinetics for pyrolysis and oxidation of organic systems are reviewed. Particular attention is given to the large-scale ReaxFF MD simulation method of similar to 10,000 atoms and practical simulation strategies to overcome th...
