Click below to view the presentation video of the Department D 2 - Thermodynamics.
Head of Laboratory: Dr. Zdeněk Trávníček
The laboratory encompasses expertise in heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, fluidics and microfluidics. Specific missions include passive and active control of flow and temperature fields, intensification of heat and mass transfer in forced convection (impinging and synthetic jets, wakes).
| Research Scientists Assoc. Prof. Alexander Fedorchenko Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Jílek Prof. Václav Tesař |
Postdoctoral Researchers Dr. Petra Dančová Dr. Josef Kordík |
Students Ing. Zuzana Broučková Bc. Anastasia Koroleva |
Visualizations obtained in the laboratory:
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Synthetic jets Phase locked visualization and phase averaging of the velocity measurement Credits: J. Kordík, Z. Trávníček |
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Local heat transfer
produced by (the above animated) synthetic jet. The experiment was carried out using the naphthalene sublimation technique in the field laboratory in Nový Knín. Using the heat/mass transfer analogy the experimental mass transfer data were transformed into the Nusselt number distribution shown in the figure. |
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Visualization of the von Kármán vortex street
at temperature T∞ = 144.5°C, Re∞ = 61 (a) Isothermal case T* = TW/T∞ = 1.00 (b) Cooling of the cylinder (T*=0.70, Reeff=71) causes increasing of the vortex shedding frequency |
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Jet bistability
Two-slot impinging jet demonstrates bistability and hysteresis of flowfields: boundary conditions alone cannot determine the flowfield uniquely, because the flow pattern (A or B) depends on flowfield history. Flow field assumption (top figures) and confirmation by flow visualization (bottom figures). |
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