Publications

  Recent Publications

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 Journal Papers Published between 2009-2015

  • Feng, Z-G, Alatawi, E. S., Roig, A., and Sarikaya, C.(2015), “A resolved Eulerian-Lagrangian simulation of fluidization of 1204 heated spheres in a bed with heat transfer.” ASME Journal of Fluid Engineering, accepted.
  • Musong, S. and Feng, Z-G (2014), “Mixed convective heat transfer from a heated sphere at an arbitrary incident flow angle in laminar flows,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 78:34-44.
  • Feng, Z-G and Musong, S. (2014), “Direct numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer of spheres in a fluidized bed.” Powder Technology, 262:62-70.
  • Feng, Z-G (2014),”Direct numerical simulation of forced convective heat transfer from a heated rotating sphere in laminar flows,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 136:041707.
  • Feng, Z-G, Ponton, M. E., Michaelides, E. E., and Mao, S-L (2013), “Using the direct numerical simulation to compute the slip boundary condition of the solid phase in two-fluid model simulations.” Powder Tech., 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.01.020.
  • Paudel, B., and Feng, Z-G (2013),”Prediction of minimum fluidization velocity for binary mixtures of biomass and inert particles,” Powder Technology, 237:134-140.
  • Feng, Z-G (2013),”Forced heat and mass transfer from a slightly deformed sphere at small but finite Peclet numbers in Stokes flow,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 135:081702.
  • Obuseh, C.C., Feng, Z-G, Paudel, B.D.(2012),”An Experimental Study on Fluidization of Binary Mixture in Particulate Flows,” Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology 33 (9): 1379-1384.
  • Feng, Z-G, and Michaelides, E.E. (2012), “Heat transfer from a nano-sphere with temperature and velocity discontinuities at the interface,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55:6491-6498.
  • Davis, A.P., Michaelides, E.E., Feng, Z-G (2012),”Particle velocity near vertical boundaries: A source of uncertainty in two-fluid models,” Powder Technology 220:15-23.
  • Feng, Z-G, Michaelides, E.E., and Mao, S.(2012),”On the drag force of a viscous sphere with interfacial slip at small but finite Reynolds numbers.” Fluid Dynamics Research, 44 (2):0255.
  • Redrow, J, Mao, S-L, Celik,I, Posada, J.A.,and Feng, Z-G (2011),”Modeling the evaporation and dispersion of airborne sputum droplets expelled from a human cough,” J. Building and Environment, 46(10):2042-2051.
  • Yang, B.J., Mao, S., Altin, O.,Feng, Z-G. (2011),”Condensation Analysis of Exhaust Gas Recirculation System for Heavy-Duty Trucks,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 3(4):#041007.
  • Mao, S-L, Feng, Z-G, Michaelides, E.E.(2010), “Off-highway heavy-duty truck under-hood thermal analysis,” Applied Thermal Engineering, 30 (13), 1726-1733.
  • Feng, Z-G (2010),”A correlation of the drag force coefficient on a sphere with interface slip at low and intermediate Reynolds numbers.” Journal Dispersion Science Technology, 31:968-974
  • Feng, Z-G, Michaelides, E.E., and Mao, S-L(2010),”A three-dimensional resolved discrete particle method for studying particle wall collision in a viscous fluid,” ASME J. Fluids Engineering, 132 (9), #091302.
  • Feng, Z-G, and Michaelides, E.E. (2009), “Secondary flow within a river bed and contaminant transport.” Environmental Fluid Mechanics, DOI 10.1007/s10652-009-9132-9
  • Feng, Z-G, and Michaelides, E.E. (2009), “Heat transfer in particulate flows with Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS).” International Journal of Heat Mass Transfer, 52:777-786
  • Feng, Z-G, and Michaelides, E. E. (2009), “Robust treatment of no-slip boundary condition and velocity updating for the Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation of Particulate Flows.” Computers and Fluids, 38:370-381

 Conference Papers and Presentations between 2009-2014

  • Smajstrla, K and Feng, Z-G (2014), “A one-dimensional model for gas-solid heat transfer in pneumatic conveying,” ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Canada
  • Feng, Z-G and Ponton, M. E., “Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for studying heat and mass transfer between fluid and solid.” ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Canada
  • Yao, Z., Feng, Z., Qin, Z., & Chen, Z., “Heat transfer enhancement for turbulent flows in corrugated tubes,” ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Canada.
  • Musong, S, Feng, Z-G, K. Chen, and Xu, Q-W (2014), “Effects of Rod Shapes on the Drag Force of Particles in a Shear ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Canada
  • Feng, Z-G and Roig, A, “Direct numerical simulation of particle heat and mass transfer in a fluidized bed.” ASME Gas-Solid Symposium, 2014, Chicago.
  • Feng, Z-G, Musong, S., and Michaelides, E. E., “A three dimensional immersed boundary method for free convection from single spheres and aggregates.” ASME Gas-Solid Symposium, 2014, Chicago.
  • Musong, S., Cortina, M., Feng, Z-G, “A three dimensional direct numerical simulation method for solving heat transfer of particulate flows.” 2013 NETL Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science, Morgantown.
  • Feng, Z-G, G. Sloan, K. Bhaganagar, and D. Banerjee, “Numerical simulation of nanoparticle clustering with experimental validation,” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 18-20, 2012; San Diego, California.
  • Feng, Z-G, and M. Andersson, “Modeling flows in porous media using immersed boundary based lattice Boltzmann method,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov.10-15, Houston, TX; Paper Number: IMECE2012-89427.
  • Sloan, G., Feng, Z-G, K. Bhaganagar, K, and Banerjee, D., “Coupled direct numerical simulation and experimental approach to develop framework for nanofluids,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov.10-15, Houston, TX. Paper number: IMECE2012-89271.
  • Cortina, M., and Feng, Z-G, “A comparable study on particle sedimentation by the resolved discrete particle method and two-fluid model,” 2012 San Antonio Simulation and Visualization Symposium, Nov. 12-13, 2012.
  • Feng, Z-G, Feng, Y-S, and M. Andersson, “Shape effects on the drag force and motion of nano and micro particles in low Reynolds number flows,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov.10-15, Houston, TX. Paper number: IMECE2012-89469.
  • Feng, Z-G, Musong, S., Sloan, G., Anderson, M., and Stewart, E., “The effect of neighboring particles on the dynamics of a particle settling in a viscous fluid,” DOE/NETL Conference on Multiphase Flow Science, May 22-24, 2012, Morgantown, WV.
  • Musong, S. and Feng, Z-G, “The effect of model parameters of the soft-sphere scheme on particle-particle collisions,” DOE/NETL Conference on Multiphase Flow Science, May 22-24, 2012, Morgantown, WV.
  • Feng, Z-G, Sloan, G., Musong S., Davis, A. D., Ebadinia, K., Cook, S., “Use of a DNS method to reduce uncertainties in two-fluid models,” 2012 University Coal Research/HBCU and Other Minority Institutions Contractors Review Conference, May 30-31, 2012, Pittsburg, PA.
  • Feng, Z-G., Michaelides, E. E., and Mao, S, “A multilevel simulation approach to derive the slip boundary condition of the solid phase in two-fluid models,” 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20-22, 2011; Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Z-G Feng, “Computational Modeling of Biological Flows,” Navy Tri-Service Research Laboratory, November 4, 2011.
  • B. Paudel and Z-G Feng, “Fluidization of inert, biomass particles and biomass/sand mixtures,” 4th ASNEngr Annual Conference and Meeting and 4th CAN-USA Annual Development Conference. July 09-10, 2011. Houston, Texas.
  • Feng, Z-G, et al., “Use of an Accurate DNS Particulate Flow Method to Study Boundary Conditions of the Solid Phase in Two-Fluid Model,” the 2011 University Coal Research/HBCU Conference, June 7-8, 2011. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Davis, A. P., Michaelides, E. E., and Feng, Z-G, “Particle velocity near vertical boundary a source of uncertainty in two-fluid models,” 7th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, FL. May 30-June 4, 2010.
  • Feng, Z-G and Michaelides, E.E, “Application of the Immersed boundary method and direct numerical simulation for the heat transfer from particles,” ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Conference, Vail, Colorado, August 2009.

 Book and Book Chapter

  • Michaelides, E. E. and Feng, Z-G (2015). “Chapter 1: Basic concepts and definitions.” Multiphase Flow Handbook -2nd edition (in press).
  • Feng, Z-G and Michaelides, E. E. (2015). “Chapter 3: The immersed boundary method to study interactions of particulate flows with heat transfer.” Multiphase Flow Handbook -2nd edition (in press).
  • Michaelides, E. E. and Feng, Z-G (2015). “Implementation of the immersed boundary method to study interactions of fluids with particles, bubbles and drops.” Progress in Colloid and Interface Science, Vol.7. Taylor & Francis (in press).
  • Tran-Cong, S. and Feng, Z-G (editors) (2001). “Book of abstracts of the 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow.” New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 27-June 1, 2001.