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| Reference Number | EP/T006382/1 | |
| Title | Novel Unsteady Conjugate Cooling Mechanism | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency (Transport) 10%; Not Energy Related 80%; Other Power and Storage Technologies (Energy storage) 10%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics) 50%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 50%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Dr PC Luk School of Engineering Cranfield University |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 April 2020 | |
| End Date | 30 April 2023 | |
| Duration | 37 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £227,836 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Mechanical engineering | |
| Region | East of England | |
| Programme | NC : Engineering | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr PC Luk , School of Engineering, Cranfield University |
| Other Investigator | Dr A Fotouhi , Cranfield University |
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| Abstract | Switching to electric vehicles becomes a global trend for carbon reduction. Battery cooling is one of the critical challenges to ensure the performance, safety, and reliability of electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems. In this era of digitalization, there is a surge of demand for high power density of electronic equipment. Efficient thermal management will play an important role in most of our future engineering applications. Flow pulsation helps our healthy blood flow system by periodically scrubbing away local accumulations in the blood vessels. Cooling efficiency could be greatly improved with the similar physical mechanism. This project proposes a novel unsteady thermal management methodology. Instead of distributing the fluids to a cooling network in a steady manner, the proposed scan-cooling method aims to control and optimize the flow unsteadiness by investigating additional design variables including scan frequency, amplitude, solid surface structure and conduction, etc. | |
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| Added to Database | 17/09/25 | |
