Browsing by Author "Lu, Hao"

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Rotating elliptic cylinders in a uniform cross flow
(2018-04-01)
Lua, Kim Boon
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Lu, Hao
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Lim, T. T.
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機械工程學系
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
Numerical simulation of flow past a two-dimensional rotating cylinder of different thickness ratios at Re = 200 has been carried out to investigate how incremental changes in the cross-section of a cylinder from a circle to a thin ellipse affect their lift and drag characteristics as well as flow structures. In contrast to past studies, the present work considers velocity ratios up to 2.5, where vortex shedding of a circular cylinder completely ceases. Results show that a decreasing thickness generally leads to lower mean lift magnitude, but a non-monotonic change in mean drag with a local minimum at a thickness ratio of approximately 0.375. Interestingly, at velocity ratio 2.5, such minimum drag changes sign and turns into a positive thrust; this event occurs at a much smaller velocity ratio than the case of a circular cylinder. Detailed analysis on vorticity contours and surface pressure distributions reveals that the thrust generation is a result of the competition between a prevailing negative pressure below the cylinder due to rotational motion, and a suction effect from a "hovering vortex" formed above the cylinder. Additionally, as the thickness reduces, the wake transits from a von-Karman type to a separated flow dictated by the two edges of the elliptic cylinder. And the crests and troughs in the transient aerodynamic forces become highly related to the instantaneous geometric angle of attack, which can be attributed to a projection effect. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Impact of Luminous Properties of Red, Green, and Blue Mini-LEDs on the Color Gamut
(2019-05-01)
Guo, Weijie
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Chen, Nan
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Lu, Hao
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Su, Changwen
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Lin, Yue
Color gamut is of the paramount importance in the display. Light-current-voltage(L-I-V) characteristics of red, green, and blue flip-chip mini-light-emitting diodes (LEDs) (100 mu m x 200 mu m) are investigated at temperatures similar to the operational temperatures. Both the ideality factor and the temperature dependence of external quantum efficiency (EQE) suggest that the nonradiative loss in red mini-LED is higher. We also illustrate the intensive lateral luminous intensity fluctuation for red mini-LED under the over-driving current by capturing the spatial emission mapping. The influence of temperature and driving current on the chromaticity coordinates of mini-LEDs is determined. Furthermore, we propose a drive-current algorithm to maximize the color gamut of the trichromatic mixed light at different temperatures. The results indicate that, for the application of self-emitting mini-LED displays, the maximum color gamut is more sensitive to green emission, whereas enhancing the radiative recombination in red mini-LED could contribute a lot to the improvement on net performance.