Heat Exchangers for Thermoelectric Devices
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2021) | Viewed by 362
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The design, modeling, and analysis of thermoelectric generators for terrestrial waste heat recovery applications requires sophisticated methods and algorithms to simultaneously model the thermoelectric device, heat exchange systems, and heat sources and sinks. All physical phenomena occurring within these separate, yet coupled, domains are interrelated. The thermal-hydraulic behaviour of the waste heat stream and sink dictate the thermal bounds in which the generators operate between, dictating thermal-electric performance. Any changes to the thermal-electric behaviour of the generator correspondingly influences said fluid domains. During the process of heat exchanger design and optimization, considerations must be made to maximize the temperature difference across the generator while concurrently minimizing pumping power requirements. To maximize the power output or efficiency of the generator, methods of multivariate optimization or parametric studies are often pursued.
Thus, there is a necessity for the creation of thermal-fluid-electric coupled multi-physics modeling algorithms to aid in the design and optimization of thermoelectric generator heat exchange systems. This Special Issue welcomes cutting-edge research in the form of analytic and numerical models and algorithms focusing on thermal-fluid-electric coupled modeling of thermoelectric generators, optimization methods for heat exchangers applied to thermoelectric generators considering thermal-fluid-electric coupling, and the applications thereof to system-level or novel waste heat recovery systems.
Dr. Matthew Barry
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermoelectric generators
- heat exchanger optimization
- thermal-fluid-electric coupled modeling
- waste heat recovery
- multi-physics modeling
