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D-Index
60
Citations
11830
World Ranking
704
National Ranking
92

Overview

Gongnan Xie is affiliated with Northwestern Polytechnical University in China and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Energy. Their work focuses notably on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as aspects of Economics and Econometrics, Water Science and Technology, Computational Mechanics, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics including Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, Membrane Separation Technologies, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Energy and Environment Impacts, and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies.

Gongnan Xie has published multiple papers across diverse venues. Among the recent publications are:

  • "Does internet development improve green total factor energy efficiency? Evidence from China", 2021, Energy Policy
  • "An assessment and analysis of phase change models for the simulation of vapor bubble condensation", 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Experimental study on three-effect tubular solar still under vacuum and immersion cooling", 2021, Desalination
  • "A floating solar still inspired by continuous root water intake", 2021, Desalination
  • "CFD investigation of vapor transportation in a tubular solar still operating under vacuum", 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Their frequent collaborators include Wenlong Chen, Zhanglin Wu, Siyu Ren, Licheng Sun, and Tiantong Yan, with multiple joint publications.

Publication venues where Gongnan Xie frequently appears include Desalination, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Conversion and Management, Renewable Energy, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Optimization of Compact Heat Exchangers by a Genetic Algorithm

    Gongnan Xie;Bengt Sundén;Q Wang

  • A review of heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of single and two-phase microchannels

    Masoud Asadi;Gongnan Xie;Bengt Sunden

  • Heat transfer analysis for shell-and-tube heat exchangers with experimental data by artificial neural networks approach

    G.N. Xie;Q.W. Wang;M. Zeng;L.Q. Luo

  • An experimental study of shell-and-tube heat exchangers with continuous helical baffles

    B. Peng;Q. W. Wang;C. Zhang;G. N. Xie

  • Parametric study and multiple correlations on air-side heat transfer and friction characteristics of fin-and-tube heat exchangers with large number of large-diameter tube rows

    Gongnan Xie;Qiuwang Wang;Bengt Sunden

  • Constructal design and thermal analysis of microchannel heat sinks with multistage bifurcations in single-phase liquid flow

    Gongnan Xie;Fengli Zhang;Bengt Sundén;Weihong Zhang

  • Advanced approaches of modeling and measurement for turbulence and heat transfer

    Gongnan Xie;Yong Hong Wu;Sergio Nardini;Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee

  • Gas Turbine Blade Tip Heat Transfer and Cooling: A Literature Survey

    Bengt Sunden;Gongnan Xie

  • Laminar thermal performance of microchannel heat sinks with constructal vertical Y-shaped bifurcation plates.

    Yanlong Li;Fengli Zhang;Bengt Sunden;Gongnan Xie

  • A review of heat transfer deterioration of supercritical carbon dioxide flowing in vertical tubes: Heat transfer behaviors, identification methods, critical heat fluxes, and heat transfer correlations

    Jingzhe Xie;Dechao Liu;Hongbin Yan;Gongnan Xie

  • Numerical Predictions of the Flow and Thermal Performance of Water-Cooled Single-Layer and Double-Layer Wavy Microchannel Heat Sinks

    Gongnan Xie;Zhiyong Chen;Bengt Sundén;Weihong Zhang

  • Topology optimization for spider web heat sinks for electronic cooling

    Xiao-hui Han;Huan-ling Liu;Gongnan Xie;Lin Sang

  • Parametric study on thermal performance of microchannel heat sinks with internal vertical Y-shaped bifurcations

    Gongnan Xie;Han Shen;Chi-Chuan Wang

  • Turbulent flow and heat transfer enhancement in rectangular channels with novel cylindrical grooves

    Jian Liu;Jian Liu;Gongnan Xie;Terrence W. Simon

  • Nano-enhanced phase change materials and fluids in energy applications: A review

    Sandro Nižetić;Mišo Jurčević;Müslüm Arıcı;A. Valan Arasu

  • Application of Local Fractional Series Expansion Method to Solve Klein-Gordon Equations on Cantor Sets

    Ai Min Yang;Yu Zhu Zhang;Carlo Cattani;Gong Nan Xie

  • Economic optimization design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers by a cuckoo-search-algorithm

    Masoud Asadi;Yidan Song;Bengt Sunden;Gongnan Xie

  • Comparative study for convective heat transfer of counter-flow wavy double-layer microchannel heat sinks in staggered arrangement

    Han Shen;Yingchun Zhang;Chi-Chuan Wang;Gongnan Xie

  • Heat transfer behaviors of some supercritical fluids: A review

    Gongnan Xie;Xiaoxiao Xu;Xianliang Lei;Zhouhang Li

  • The performance management of a Li-ion battery by using tree-like mini-channel heat sinks: Experimental and numerical optimization

    Huan-ling Liu;Hang-bo Shi;Han Shen;Gongnan Xie

  • Computational Study and Optimization of Laminar Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss of Double-Layer Microchannels for Chip Liquid Cooling

    Gongnan Xie;Yanquan Liu;Bengt Sunden;Weihong Zhang

  • Numerical analysis of flow structure and heat transfer characteristics in square channels with different internal-protruded dimple geometrics

    Gongnan Xie;Jian Liu;Phillip M. Ligrani;Weihong Zhang

  • Nonlinear Methodologies for Identifying Seismic Event and Nuclear Explosion Using Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, and Naive Bayes Classification

    Longjun Dong;Xibing Li;Gongnan Xie

  • Forced convection and heat transfer of water-cooled microchannel heat sinks with various structured metal foams

    Beibei Shen;Hongbin Yan;Bengt Sunden;Hongqian Xue

Frequent Co-Authors

Bengt Sundén
Bengt Sundén Lund University
Weihong Zhang
Weihong Zhang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Qiuwang Wang
Qiuwang Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Yonghui Xie
Yonghui Xie Xi'an Jiaotong University
Giulio Lorenzini
Giulio Lorenzini University of Parma
Terrence W. Simon
Terrence W. Simon University of Minnesota
Xiao-Jun Yang
Xiao-Jun Yang China University of Mining and Technology
Carlo Cattani
Carlo Cattani Tuscia University
Oronzio Manca
Oronzio Manca University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi Tongji University

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