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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Two-Phase Spray Cooling with HFC-134a and HFO-1234yf for Thermal Management of Automotive Power Electronics using Practical Enhanced Surfaces

Altalidi, Sulaiman Saleh 08 1900 (has links)
The objective of this research was to investigate the performance of two-phase spray cooling with HFC-134a and HFO-1234yf refrigerants using practical enhanced heat transfer surfaces. Results of the study were expected to provide a quantitative spray cooling performance comparison with working fluids representing the current and next-generation mobile air conditioning refrigerants, and demonstrate the feasibility of this approach as an alternative active cooling technology for the thermal management of high heat flux power electronics (i.e., IGBTs) in electric-drive vehicles. Potential benefits of two-phase spray cooling include achieving more efficient and reliable operation, as well as compact and lightweight system design that would lead to cost reduction. The experimental work involved testing of four different enhanced boiling surfaces in comparison to a plain reference surface, using a commercial pressure-atomizing spray nozzle at a range of liquid flow rates for each refrigerant to determine the spray cooling performance with respect to heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical heat flux (CHF). The heater surfaces were prepared using dual-stage electroplating, brush coating, sanding, and particle blasting, all featuring "practical" room temperature processes that do not require specialized equipment. Based on the obtained results, HFC-134a provided a better heat transfer performance through higher HTC and CHF values compared to HFO-1234yf at all tested surfaces and flow rates. While majority of the tested surfaces provided comparable HTC and modestly higher CHF values compared to the reference surface, one of the enhanced surfaces offered significant heat transfer enhancement.
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Caractérisation et modélisation de canal intra-véhiculaire: communication ultra-large bande et retournement temporel / Characterization and modeling of intra-vehicular channel: ultra-wideband communication and time reversal

Bellens, François 19 June 2013 (has links)
Actuellement, la majorité des équipements électroniques prenant place dans nos véhicules s'interconnectent encore par des liens câblés. Or, l'établissement d'un réseau sans fil permet de remplacer ces liens existants. Afin de permettre cette connectivité et pour répondre aux exigences futures, une solution qui accepte suffisamment de débit doit être développée. Parmi les solutions actuelles possibles, l'Ultra-Large Bande est le candidat idéal. De manière générale, cette Thèse se consacre à l'étude de la propagation à l'intérieur d'une voiture. Afin d'évaluer les performances de ce type de système à l'intérieur d'un véhicule, un modèle de canal pouvant reproduire avec fidélité la propagation intra-véhiculaire est nécessaire. De par la similarité entre les environnements, le modèle de canal proposé est basé sur la théorie des chambres réverbérantes. Compte tenu des faibles dimensions de l'environnement et de la proximité des antennes par rapport aux passagers, l'idée est de réduire l'énergie absorbée par ces derniers tout en maximisant celle-ci à la position d'un récepteur visé. Parmi les solutions possibles, le retournement temporel apparait comme une technique idéale pour répondre à ces objectifs. Cette technique permet en effet de focaliser temporellement et spatialement le signal électromagnétique au niveau du récepteur. Dans cette Thèse, une évaluation des performances du RT à l'intérieure d'une voiture est proposée. Cette étude nous a amenés à porter notre attention sur les propriétés spatiales de l'énergie totale portée par un signal utilisant le retournement temporel et, de ce fait, nous proposons un nouveau formalisme de la distribution spatiale de cette énergie. / Current vehicles still use wired links to interconnect the embedded electronic equipment. However, advances in wireless technologies permit to replace these links with wireless personal area networks. To enable this connectivity and to meet the future requirements, a solution that provides sufficient data rate must be developed. One technological candidate that can be used to meet the data rate requirements is Ultra-Wide Band. This thesis investigates the ultra-wideband propagation environment in intra-vehicular environments. In order to evaluate the performances of UWB inside a vehicle, channel models that accurately reproduce the intra-vehicular propagation characteristics are required. Because of obvious similarities, the proposed model is based on reverberation chamber theory. Given the small size of the environment and the proximity of the antennas to the passengers, one goal of intra-vehicular communications is to reduce the energy absorbed by the passengers while maximizing the energy at the position of the intended receiver. Among the possible solutions, Time Reversal appears to be the ideal technique to meet this objective. Time Reversal permits to spatially and temporally focus the electromagnetic signal at the receiver. In this thesis, a performance evaluation of Time Reversal inside a car is proposed. Moreover, a model of the spatial properties of the total energy of a signal using Time Reversal is proposed. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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