Investigation of thermofluid processes in the interfacial region

流体-流体和流体-固体界面之间的热传递速率对许多环境和工程应用至关重要。这项研究的目的是研究影响/控制界面换热的基本流动和热过程。它将侧重于空气-水和固体-流体界面的研究。在空气-水界面，空气和水之间的物理相互作用涉及许多复杂的现象，发生在界面附近的空气和水两侧。由于波动界面附近流动的复杂性和测量的挑战性，人们对空气-水界面的基本输运过程知之甚少。流体与固体壁面之间的换热是各种能量系统中的基本换热过程。由于近壁区内流动和热场的强烈相互作用，该区域内的流动性质非常复杂，人们对其认识不深，换热装置的设计和优化在很大程度上依赖于经验关系和体积特性。

The rate at which heat transfers across fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interfaces is critically important to many environmental and engineering applications. The proposed research is aimed at investigating the fundamental flow and thermal processes that influence/control the interfacial heat transfer. It will focus on the investigations at both air-water and solid-fluid interfaces. At the air-water interface, the physical interaction between air and water involves a number of complex phenomena, occurring on both air and water sides in the close vicinity of their interface. Due to the complexity of the flow and challenging nature of measurements in the vicinity of the fluctuating interface, the fundamental transport processes across the air-water interface are poorly understood. The heat exchange between a fluid and a solid wall is the fundamental heat transfer process in a wide variety of energy systems. Due to the strong interaction of flow and thermal fields in the near-wall region, the nature of flow in this region is quite complex and not well understood and thus, designing and optimization of heat exchanging devices is heavily relied on empirical relations and bulk characteristics.