In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die heterogen katalysierte Oxidation von Ethen zu Ethylenoxid an Silberkatalysatoren untersucht. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, Mikrostrukturreaktoren für schnelle und stark exotherme Oxidationsreaktionen zu erproben und diese Epoxidation diente als Modellreaktion. Gleichzeitig wurden explosions- und flammhemmende Eigenschaften des Mikrostrukturreaktors ausgenutzt, um die partielle Oxidation von Ethen zu Ethyenoxid im Explosionsbereich (> 9% Sauerstoff) ohne Sicherheitsprobleme zu ermöglichen. Um die gesteckten Ziele zu erreichen wurden zwei parallele Lösungswege beschritten. Zunächst wurden modulare Mikrostrukturreaktoren und geeignete mikrostrukturierte Katalysatorträger entwickelt, um Untersuchungen verschiedener katalytischer Beschichtungen in dieser neuen und nicht allgemein verfügbaren Reaktorbauweise zu ermöglichen. Zur katalytische Erprobungen dieser Konstruktion war es notwendig, geeignete Beschichtungstechniken zur Immobilisierung katalytisch aktiver Spezies zu entwickeln. Durch die Bauweise dieser Reaktoren als Wandreaktor erschien es anfänglich nicht möglich, kommerziell verfügbare pellet-artige Katalysatoren zu verwenden. Daher wurden, parallel zur Konstruktion der modularen Mikroreaktoren, verschiedene auf Silber basierende Beschichtungstechniken hinsichtlich ihrer Eignung für diese Reaktion erprobt. Zur Erprobung kamen u.a. Silberimmobilisierung in einem durch anodischen Oxidation erzeugen Porensystem bzw. einer durch Sol-Gel Beschichtung erzeugten a-Aluminiumoxid Schicht und die Abscheidung von metallischem Silber per Vakuumbeschichtung auf einem Trägermaterial. Zuletzt wurde die Immobilisierung eines gemahlenen, kommerziellen Katalysators per elektrostatischer Pulverabscheidung auf einem entsprechend präparierten Trägermaterial vorgenommen und erfolgreich erprobt. Die wichtigste Erkenntnis dieser Arbeit aus chemisch-katalytischer Sicht ist der enorm positive Einfluss hoher Sauerstoffkonzentrationen auf die Selektivität und gleichzeitig den Umsatz des umzusetzenden Ethylens. Wird die Sauerstoffkonzentration von unter 10% auf bis zu 80% erhöht, so steigt die Selektivität zu Ethylenoxid um ca. 10% an und simultan kann der Umsatzgrad abhängig vom Katalysator und der Reaktortemperatur um den Faktor 2 bis 10 gesteigert werden. Diese Beobachtung wurde für jeden funktionierenden Katalysator gemacht, unabhängig von dessen Herstellung. Mittels Promotoren wie Cs-Salzen und Stickoxiden konnte die Selektivität in Abwesenheit gängiger Moderatoren wie Chlorkomponenten auf 70% (Cs-Salze) bzw. 75% (NOx) gesteigert werden. Verfahrenstechnisch ist festzuhalten, dass Mikrostrukturreaktoren gleich welcher Bauweise unter allen Reaktionsbedingungen thermisch stabil und beherrschbar blieben. Es wurden Umsatzgrade bis 99% bezüglich Ethen erzielt bzw. Reaktionstemperaturen von über 630 K bei einem binären Ethylen-Sauerstoff Gemisch (20%/80%) angewendet. Angesichts adiabater Temperaturerhöhungen von mehr als 3000 K konnte dennoch ein stabiler Betrieb des Reaktors festgestellt werden. Diese thermische Stabilität war bei Katalysatoren in Festbettreaktoren nicht gegeben.

<p>A battery assembly experiences both mechanical and thermal loadings during its operation. It is critical to perform the thermomechanical analysis to propose a novel design for the highest efficiency.In this study,two main goals include mechanical characterization and deformation responses for a battery cell and assembly, as well as air-cooled concepts design and analysis.Initially, the cell dimensions were measured by cell-sectioning method, and then the mechanical properties were empirically measured by both 3-point flexural, and nanoindentation experiments. Moreover, three pairs of experiments and simulations were conducted to study mechanical behaviors on both a single cell and a battery assembly. They include (1) point-force loading for single, open cell; (2) internal pressurization for single, sealed cell; and (3) internal pressurization for battery assembly.Additionally, both parametric and experimental studies were executed to design, analyze,and validate air-cooled concepts based on the idea of microchannel heatsink. The proposed concepts have the features, which are integrated into the battery cell for generating the cooling channels. A series of thermomechanical simulations and a forced convection testbed were built for computationally and empirically analyzing the performances of the concepts. The results from the mechanical characterization showed a significant difference between the actual and nominal values of both cell dimensions and mechanical properties. Therefore, the effect of the manufacturing process to such values must be considered before inputting for analyzing the deformation responses. From the thermomechanical analyses, it was found that the mechanical loading might negatively influence the thermal performance if there were not enough mechanical supports from the air-cooling structure. The impact was minimal in the tapered-channel battery assembly. This configuration also significantly reduced the temperature difference on the cell compared with other concepts and the reference design.<br></p>

<p>Advancements in future technologies such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and renewable energy create a consistent need for more powerful and smaller electronic devices and systems. As a result, thermal management components such as heat sinks need to remove higher heat loads from more compact spaces to keep electronics within their operational temperature limits. Constraints imposed by conventional manufacturing processes restrict the design of heat sinks to simple geometries with limited cooling performance. Recent widespread commercialization of metal additive manufacturing (AM) tools offers new potential for leveraging the design freedom of these manufacturing technologies to design and fabricate heat sinks with improved performance. </p> <p>In AM, three dimensional parts are created through layer-by-layer depositing of materials, which allows fabrication of complex geometries that would be impossible or too costly using conventional subtractive methods. Many novel heat sink geometries have been proposed in literature which incorporate features such as manifolds, flow mixers, and curved channels using engineering intuition to reduce pressure drop or enhance heat transfer. Although such designs have been shown to offer improved performance, mathematical design algorithms such as topology optimization (TO) have been shown to outperform engineering intuition. Topology optimization optimizes the material distribution within a given design space, guided by physics-based simulations, to achieve a user-defined objective such as minimization of thermal resistance. Previous TO approaches have used penalization methods to ensure the final designs are composed of macroscopic and non-porous features due to the past precedent of fabrication capabilities. This traditional penalization approach is well-suited to the constraints of conventional manufacturing methods; however, microstructures and porous features are easily fabricable with additive manufacturing. There is a need to develop TO approaches that are better suited for leveraging AM for the design of heat sinks. In this thesis, a homogenization approach to topology optimization is proposed wherein the material distribution is represented as parametrized microstructures. This formulation allows design of thermal management components that have sub-grid features and leverages AM for fabrication. The focus of this thesis is the development of the homogenization approach for TO of heat sinks, as well as the exploration of the design problems it can address, the performance benefits made available, and the two-phase flow physics that it uniquely allows to be incorporated into the topology optimization process.</p> <p>A topology optimization algorithm using the homogenization approach is developed by representing the material distribution as arrays of pin fins with varying gap sizes. To this end, the pin fins are modeled as a porous medium with volume-averaged effective properties. Height-averaged two-dimensional flow and non-equilibrium thermal models for porous media are developed for transport in the pin fin array. Through multi-objective optimization, TO designs are generated for an example case involving a hotspot over a uniform background heat input. The resulting topologies have porous-membrane-like designs where the liquid is transported through a fractal network of open, low-hydraulic-resistance manifold pathways and then forced across tightly spaced arrays of pin fins for effective heat transfer. The TO designs are revealed to offer significant performance improvements relative to the benchmark straight microchannel (SMC) heat sink with features optimized under the same multi-objective cost function. A series of microchannel heat sinks are fabricated using direct metal laser sintering to investigate the printing capabilities and to experimentally demonstrate the performance of topology optimized designs. Advantages of the homogenization approach over the penalization approach can be summarized as follows: (1) reduced computational costs due to its ability to create sub-resolution features, (2) intrinsically fabricable parts using available metal AM tools, and (3) easier to use due to significantly reduced number of hyperparameters (e.g., penalization factors) that are controlled by the user. </p> <p>Topology optimization has been applied to thermal management methods involving single-phase flows such as natural convection, forced air cooling, and pumped liquid cooling. Compared to these conventional heat sink technologies, flow boiling offers very high heat transfer coefficients and effective heat capacities, making it a promising candidate for future cooling electronics applications. The final goal of this thesis is to enable topology optimization of flow boiling heat sinks. However, TO of flow boiling heat sinks has been avoided due to difficulties in modeling the boiling phenomena; of note, there are no examples of TO being applied to the design of heat sink under flow boiling throughout the literature. Multi-dimensional two-phase flow models require prior knowledge of friction factor and heat transfer coefficients. Correlations are available in literature but are not universal and depend significantly on channel/fin geometries, surface roughness, and operating conditions. Given that traditional penalization-based TO approach results in fin and channel geometries with unknown shapes, dimensions, and alignment before the optimization is completed, this prohibits their use for optimization of flow boiling heat sinks. However, the homogenization approach to topology optimization developed in this thesis enables the optimization of flow boiling heat sinks. As it relies on user-defined microstructures with known shapes, alignments, and ranges of geometric dimensions, a universal correlation for flow boiling in microchannels is not needed. Instead, correlations for the user-defined microstructures are sufficient to simulate flow boiling in TO designs generated using the homogenization approach. To this end, a predefined microstructure geometry is chosen for which two-phase flow correlations exist and therefore topology optimization can be performed. Topology optimized heat sink designs under flow-boiling are generated and investigated at various heat inputs, topology optimization grid sizes, and maximum vapor quality constraints. Topology optimized heat sinks designed for single-phase versus two-phase flow are compared.  There are significant differences in hydraulic and thermal responses of the single-phase and two-phase designs due to high effective heat capacity rates and high heat transfer coefficients of flow boiling. The algorithm demonstrated in this work extends the capabilities of topology optimization to two-phase flow physics, and thereby enables the design of various two-phase flow components such as evaporators, condensers, heat sinks, and cold plates.</p> <p>The flow and heat transfer of the TO algorithm for microchannel heat sinks under flow boiling use a two-phase mixture model featuring an effective porous medium formulation. However, closure of the governing equations requires empirical correlations for pressure drop and heat transfer that are specific to the operating conditions, microstructure geometry, and surface finish. Therefore, it must be demonstrated these available correlations can be successfully calibrated over a range of microstructural variations present within the homogenization framework, so as to attain the required prediction generality and accuracy needed to ensure the resulting designs achieve Pareto-optimality. To this end, a set of uniform pin fin calibration samples are additively manufactured and experimentally tested under flow boiling at various flow rates and heat inputs for model calibration. All of the unknown/free coefficients in the adopted correlations are determined by minimizing the error between the model predictions and the experimental measurements using gradient-based optimization. The calibrated topology optimization algorithm is then used to generate a Pareto-optimal set of heat sinks optimized for minimum pressure drop and thermal resistance during flow boiling. Experimental characterization of these additively manufactured heat sinks, unseen during the model coefficient calibration process, reveals that the measured Pareto optimality curve matches that predicted by the topology optimization algorithm. Lastly, a heat sink design is generated for a design space involving multiple hot spots and background heating to showcase the capability of the experimentally calibrated two-phase topology optimization algorithm at handling complex boundary conditions. The optimized heat sink intelligently distributes an adequate amount of coolant flow to each of the heated regions to avoid local dry-out. This work demonstrates a complete framework for two-phase topology optimization of heat sinks through experimental calibration of flow boiling correlations to the porous medium used by the homogenization approach. </p> <p>The major contribution of this thesis is the development of a homogenization approach for TO of additively manufactured microchannel heat sinks under single- and two-phase flows. Not only does the homogenization approach provide several advantages over the traditional penalization approaches such as reduced computational costs, intrinsic fabricability using AM, and ease of use, but it also enables TO of heat sinks under flow boiling and potentially TO of other two-phase thermal management components. The work discussed in this thesis serves a comprehensive end-to-end guide on TO of microchannel heat sinks using the homogenization approach with experimental demonstrations for validation.</p>

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Rising energy demands and the continual push to find more energy efficient technologies have been the impetus for the investigation of waste heat recovery techniques. Diesel engine exhaust heat utilization has the potential to significantly reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and reduce the release of greenhouse gases, because diesel engines are ubiquitous in industry and transportation. The exhaust energy can used to provide refrigeration by implementing an organic Rankine cycle coupled with a vapor-compression cycle. A critical component in this system, and in any waste heat recovery system, is the heat exchanger that extracts the heat from the exhaust. In this study, a cross-flow microchannel heat exchanger was geometrically examined and thermally tested under laboratory conditions. The heat exchanger, referred to as the Heat Recovery Unit (HRU), was designed to transfer diesel exhaust energy to a heat transfer oil. Two methods were developed to measure the geometry of the microchannels. The first was based on image processing of microscope photographs, and the second involved an analysis of profilometer measurements. Both methods revealed that the exhaust channels (air channels) were, on average, smaller in cross-sectional area by 11% when compared to the design. The cross-sectional area of the oil channels were 8% smaller than their design. The hydraulic diameters for both channel geometries were close to their design. Hot air was used to simulate diesel engine exhaust. Thermal testing of the heat exchanger included measurements of heat transfer, effectiveness, air pressure drop, and oil pressure drop. The experimental results for the heat transfer and effectiveness agreed well with the model predictions. However, the measured air pressure drop and oil pressure drop were significantly higher than the model. The discrepancy was attributed to the model's ideal representation of the channel areas. Additionally, since the model did not account for the complex flow path of the oil stream, the measured oil pressure drop was much higher than the predicted pressure drop. The highest duty of the Heat Recovery Unit observed during the experimental tests was 12.3 kW and the highest effectiveness was 97.8%. To examine the flow distribution through the air channels, velocity measurements were collected at the outlet of the Heat Recovery Unit using a hot film anemometer. For unheated air flow, the profile measurements indicated that there was flow maldistribution. A temperature profile was measured and analyzed for a thermally loaded condition. / Graduation date: 2012

Este trabalho propõe o estudo do projeto de dispositivos baseados em microcanais de fluido, tais como difusores, misturadores, válvulas, e trocadores de calor, através da aplicação do Método de Otimização Topológica (MOT). O MOT é um método computacional que permite obter um projeto otimizado de um sistema, através da distribuição de uma quantidade limitada de material num dado domínio de projeto. Neste caso, o MOT é aplicado a um domínio fluido, e permite obter a topologia otimizada (formato ótimo) dos microcanais, segundo uma determinada característica, seja esta, a minimização da perda de carga, ou a maximização da velocidade num dado ponto, ou ainda a maximização da troca de calor, no caso de trocadores de calor. Os canais utilizados nestas aplicações operam com baixo número de Reynolds, sendo um caso típico da aplicação das equações de escoamento de Stokes. A implementação do MOT é realizada sob a forma de rotinas computacionais, permitindo um projeto sistematizado dos canais. No processo de otimização, utiliza-se o Método dos Elementos Finitos (MEF) como método de análise dos fenômenos físicos envolvidos, e a Programação Linear Seqüencial (PLS) como algoritmo de otimização. Ao final, propõe-se um estudo multi-físico, aliando-se características otimizadas tanto do ponto de vista da eficiência do escoamento, quanto do ponto de vista da dissipação térmica no canal, combinando-os através de uma função multi-objetivo. Exemplos de projeto bidimensionais de dispositivos de fluido são apresentados para ilustrar o método. / This work proposes studying the design of micro channel devices, such as fluid diffusers, mixers, valves, and heat exchangers, through the application of the Topology Optimization Method (TOM). The TOM is a computational method that allows the distribution of a limited amount of material, inside a given design domain, in order to obtain an optimized system design. Herein, the TOM is applied to a fluidic domain, allowing the design of an optimized microchannel topology (optimal configuration), according to a given objective function, such as head loss minimization, maximum velocity in a given direction, or the heat transfer maximization, in a heat exchanger example. Especially this kind of channel devices, operates at low Reynolds number, thus, it can be modeled through Stokes flow equations. The optimization procedure applies the Finite Element Method (FEM) to perform the physical analysis, and Sequential Linear Programming (SLP) as the optimization algorithm. At the end, a multi-physics analysis is proposed, through a multi-objective cost function, that combines both flow and heat dissipation efficiency optimization. Two-dimensional designs of fluidic devices are presented as examples to illustrate the method.

The need for clean and renewable fuel such as hydrogen is driven by a growing worldwide population and increasing air pollution from fossil fuels. One of the major barriers for the use of hydrogen in automotive industry is the storage of hydrogen. Physisorption is the most promising storage technique due to its high storage density, reversibility and rapid sorption kinetics besides being safe and volume-efficient. A major challenge for physisorption is the need to manage the heat of adsorption at cryogenic temperatures. In this thesis, a 6061 aluminum microchannel cooling plate is designed to remove the equivalent heat flux required by the adsorption of hydrogen within an adsorption bed. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to determine whether laser welding and heat treating strategies can be developed for a 6061 aluminum microchannel cooling plate as part of a larger hydrogen storage thermal management system. Key manufacturing process requirements include controlling the hermeticity, strength and dimensional stability of the heat-treated weld joint. A hermetic microchannel cooling plate was successfully laser welded and heat treated using free convection in air to quench the solution heat treatment. The weld strength and warpage obtained were within acceptable limits. Experimental testing of the fabricated microchannel cooling plate showed acceptable percent error with an experimental heat removal rate within 13.4% of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses and an average pressure drop error of 25%. Calculations show that the cooling plate developed could support a hydrogen storage thermal management system taking up 5.0% and 10.3% of the system displacement volume and mass, respectively. / Graduation date: 2013

Durch die Fokussierung eines ultrakurzen und hochintensiven Laserpulses auf ein Festkörpertarget können Pulse von Protonen und anderen positiv geladenen Ionen mit Teilchenenergien von einigen MeV pro Nukleon erzeugt werden. Die Charakterisierung dieser Teilchenstrahlung erfordert die Identifizierung der Ionenspezies und die Bestimmung ihrer spektralen Verteilung möglichst nach jedem Puls. Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit wurden zwei Spektrometer entwickelt und am DRACO-Lasersystem des Forschungszentrums Dresden implementiert. Neben der Inbetriebnahme eines Thomson-Spektrometers mit einer Mikrokanalplatte und einem Fluoreszenzschirm als Auslese erfolgte die Entwicklung eines Flugzeitspektrometers. Die Verwendung einer Mikrokanalplatte mit nur 180ps Anstiegszeit als Signalverstärker sorgt darin für eine verbesserte Energieauflösung und einen flexibleren Einsatz im Experimentierbetrieb. Ein dem Flugzeitsignal überlagertes Störsignal, welches durch die Einstreuungen eines elektromagnetischen Impulses in den Aufbau verursacht wurde, konnte erfolgreich durch die Anwendung verschiedener Filter unterdrückt werden. Als Ergebnis dieser Arbeit steht eine anwendungsbereite Diagnostik für laserbeschleunigte Protonen und Ionen zur Verfügung. / By focusing an ultra-short high-intensity laser pulse on a solid target, pulses of protons and other positive charged ions with energies of several MeV per nucleon are generated. It is necessary to identify the species of those particles and obtain their energy spectra in a single-shot regime. Within this diploma thesis two spectrometers have been developed and implemented in the DRACO-laboratory of the Forschungszentrum Dresden. Besides a Thomson spectrometer with read-out via microchannel plate and phosphor screen, a time-of-flight spectrometer was developed. The usage of a microchannel plate with 180ps rise time as a signal amplifier leads therein to a better energy resolution and a more flexible handling in experimental operation. A noise signal generated by stray pick-up of an electromagnetic pulse and superimposing the time-of-flight signal was considerably reduced by the application of different filters. As a result of this work a ready-to-use diagnostic for laser accelerated protons and ions is available.

Este trabalho propõe o estudo do projeto de dispositivos baseados em microcanais de fluido, tais como difusores, misturadores, válvulas, e trocadores de calor, através da aplicação do Método de Otimização Topológica (MOT). O MOT é um método computacional que permite obter um projeto otimizado de um sistema, através da distribuição de uma quantidade limitada de material num dado domínio de projeto. Neste caso, o MOT é aplicado a um domínio fluido, e permite obter a topologia otimizada (formato ótimo) dos microcanais, segundo uma determinada característica, seja esta, a minimização da perda de carga, ou a maximização da velocidade num dado ponto, ou ainda a maximização da troca de calor, no caso de trocadores de calor. Os canais utilizados nestas aplicações operam com baixo número de Reynolds, sendo um caso típico da aplicação das equações de escoamento de Stokes. A implementação do MOT é realizada sob a forma de rotinas computacionais, permitindo um projeto sistematizado dos canais. No processo de otimização, utiliza-se o Método dos Elementos Finitos (MEF) como método de análise dos fenômenos físicos envolvidos, e a Programação Linear Seqüencial (PLS) como algoritmo de otimização. Ao final, propõe-se um estudo multi-físico, aliando-se características otimizadas tanto do ponto de vista da eficiência do escoamento, quanto do ponto de vista da dissipação térmica no canal, combinando-os através de uma função multi-objetivo. Exemplos de projeto bidimensionais de dispositivos de fluido são apresentados para ilustrar o método. / This work proposes studying the design of micro channel devices, such as fluid diffusers, mixers, valves, and heat exchangers, through the application of the Topology Optimization Method (TOM). The TOM is a computational method that allows the distribution of a limited amount of material, inside a given design domain, in order to obtain an optimized system design. Herein, the TOM is applied to a fluidic domain, allowing the design of an optimized microchannel topology (optimal configuration), according to a given objective function, such as head loss minimization, maximum velocity in a given direction, or the heat transfer maximization, in a heat exchanger example. Especially this kind of channel devices, operates at low Reynolds number, thus, it can be modeled through Stokes flow equations. The optimization procedure applies the Finite Element Method (FEM) to perform the physical analysis, and Sequential Linear Programming (SLP) as the optimization algorithm. At the end, a multi-physics analysis is proposed, through a multi-objective cost function, that combines both flow and heat dissipation efficiency optimization. Two-dimensional designs of fluidic devices are presented as examples to illustrate the method.

The polymers are integral part of vast number of products used in day to day life due to their anomalous viscoelastic behaviour. The remarkable flow behaviour exhibited by the polymeric fluids including rod climbing, extrudate swell, tube-less siphon, viscoelastic jet, elastic recoil and sharkskin instability is attributed to the complex microstructures in the polymeric liquids that arise due to the interactions of long chain polymer molecules with each other and with the surrounding fluid particles. The significance of polymer in transportation, packaging, pharmaceutical, chemical, biomedical, textiles, food and polymer processing industries highlights the requirement to comprehend the complex rheology of polymeric fluids. First, we investigate the flow features exhibited by different shear thinning vis-coelastic fluids in rectangular cavities over a wide range of depth to width ratio. We have developed a viscoelastic flow solver in order to perform numerical simulations of highly elastic flow of viscoelastic fluids. In particular, we discuss the simulations of flows of constant viscosity Boger and shear thinning viscoelastic fluids in the complex flow problems using different constitutive equations. The effects of elasticity and inertia on the flow behaviour of two shear thinning vis-coelastic fluids modeled using Giesekus and linear PTT constitutive equations in rectangular cavities is studied. The size of the primary eddies and critical aspect ratio over which the corner eddies merge to yield a second primary eddy in deep cavities is discussed. We demonstrate that the flow in the shallow and deep cavities can be characterized using Weissenberg number, defined based on the shear rate, and Deborah number, specified based on the convective time scale, respectively. The study of flow in driven cavities is important in understanding of the mixing process during synthesis of blends and composites. Next, we study two phase polymeric flow in confined geometries. Nowadays, polymer processing industries prefer to develop newer polymer with the desired material properties mechanically by mixing and blending of different polymer components instead of chemically synthesizing fresh polymer. The microstructure of blends and emulsions following drop deformation, breakup and coalescence during mixing determines its macroscopic interfacial rheology. We developed a two phase viscoelastic flow solver using volume conserving sharp interface volume-of-fluid (VOF) method for studying the dynamics of single droplet subjected to the complex flow fields. We investigated the effects of drop and matrix viscoelasticity on the motion and deformation of a droplet suspended in a fully developed channel flow. The flow behaviour exhibited by Newtonian-Newtonian, viscoelastic-Newtonian, Newtonian-viscoelastic and viscoelastic-viscoelastic drop-matrix systems is presented. The difference in the drop dynamics due to presence of constant viscosity Boger fluid and shear thinning viscoelastic fluid is represented using FENE-CR and linear PTT constitutive equations, respectively. The presence of shear thinning viscoelastic fluid either in the drop or the matrix phase suppresses the drop deformation due to stronger influence of matrix viscoelasticity as compared to the drop elasticity. The shear thinning viscoelastic drop-matrix system further restricts the drop deformation and it displays non-monotonic de-formation. The constant viscosity Boger fluid droplet curbs the drop deformation and exhibits flow dynamics identical to the shear thinning viscoelastic droplet, thus indicating that the nature of the drop viscoelasticity has little influence on the flow behaviour. The matrix viscoelasticity due to Boger fluid increases drop deformation and displays non-monotonic deformation. The drop deformation is further enhanced in the case of Boger fluid in viscoelastic drop-matrix system. Interestingly, the pressure drop due to the presence of viscoelastic drop in a Newtonian matrix is lower than the single phase flow of Newtonian fluid. We also discuss the effects of inertia, surface tension, drop to matrix viscosity ratio and the drop size on these drop-matrix systems. Finally, we investigate the emulsion rheology by studying the motion of a droplet in the square lid driven cavity flow. The viscoelastic effects due to constant viscosity Boger fluid and shear thinning viscoelastic fluid are illustrated using FENECR and Giesekus rheological relations, respectively. The presence of viscoelasticity either in drop or matrix phase boosts the drop deformation with the drop viscoelasticity displaying intense deformation. The drop dynamics due to the droplet viscoelasticity is observed to be independent of the nature of vis-coelastic fluid. The shear thinning viscoelastic matrix has a stronger influence on the drop deformation and orientation compared to the Boger fluid matrix. The different blood components, cells and many materials of industrial importance are viscoelastic in nature. Thus, the present study has significant applications in medical diagnostics, drug delivery, manufacturing and processing industries, study of biological flows, pharmaceutical research and development of lab-on-chip devices.