Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Self-sustained biphasic catalytic particle turbulence

  • Ziqi Wang,
  • Varghese Mathai,
  • Chao Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11221-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Turbulent systems are particularly suitable for heat transport. Here the authors add active particles to a turbulent system, and the coupling of turbulent convection and the collective dynamics of active particles leads to a 500% enhancement in heat transfer compared to a standard turbulent heat exchanger.