Publications

Engineering Sciences

Imbibition or drying dynamics: Controlled by big and small capillaries interconnectivity

Rachid Bennacer, Xiaoyan Ma

Construction and Building Materials - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Experimental study on refrigeration performance optimisation of reciprocating room temperature magnetic refrigerator

Georges El Achkar, Bin Liu, Rachid Bennacer

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Navier Slip and Heat Transfer in a Nanofluid Due to a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet: An Analytical Study

A. B. Vishalakshi, U. S. Mahabaleshwar, M. El Ganaoui, R. Bennacer

Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Absorption of methanol and butanol vapours into droplets and its potential for decontamination: A fundamental approach

K. Sefiane, R. Bennacer, A. Cheng, B. Liu

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Simulation of the Hygrothermal Behavior of a Building Envelope Based on Phase Change Materials and a Bio-Based Concrete

Dongxia Wu, Mourad Rahim, Wendong Li, Mohammed El Ganaoui, Rachid Bennacer

Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Dynamic hygrothermal behavior and energy performance analysis of a novel multilayer building envelope based on PCM and hemp concrete

Dongxia Wu, Mourad Rahim, Mohammed El Ganaoui, Rachid Bennacer, Rabah Djedjig, Bin Liu

Construction and Building Materials - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Effect of Different Plenum-Chamber Coefficients on the Frosting of Air-Cooler

The performance of the air-cooler in refrigeration systems plays a key role in their energy efficiency. Here, the plenum-chamber coefficient was defined to investigate a possible way of enhancing the refrigeration coefficient that reflects the…

Bin Liu, Shengqiang Shi, Yongshan Liu, Rachid Bennacer, Aiqiang Chen, Panagiotis Theodorakis

Energies - 2022

Engineering Sciences

Multilayer assembly of phase change material and bio-based concrete: A passive envelope to improve the energy and hygrothermal performance of buildings

Dongxia Wu, Mourad Rahim, Mohammed El Ganaoui, Rachid Bennacer, Bin Liu

Energy Conversion and Management - 2022

Engineering Sciences

On the effect of concentration and wettability on polymer drops impact, dynamics and energy dissipation

The present study aims to understand the influence of small quantities of poly-ethylene oxide (PEO) diluted in pure distilled water with concentrations of 50, 100 and 200 parts per million (ppm) in the impact phenomenon of drops onto substrates of…

Rachid Bennacer, Xiaoyan Ma, Khellil Sefiane

European Physical Journal: Applied Physics - 2022

Mechanics of materials

Infrared thermography method to estimate fretting crack initiation length with respect to grain size

Hugo Lannay, Siegfried Fouvry, Bruno Berthel, Camille Gandiolle, Jan Neggers

10th International Symposium on Fretting Fatigue - 2022