The energy potential of the oceanic thermal gradients of the Mexican Pacific Ocean was valued theoretically, using seasonal oceanographic data on surface and 1000 m depth ocean temperatures from 1955 to 2013, taken from the World Ocean Database (WOD)...
Quartz crystal microbalances are widely used sensors with applications for the detection of very-low-mass deposition in many different fields, from contamination monitoring in the high vacuum of deep space missions to the monitoring of biological act...
Accompanied by the rapid progress of the digital era and the continuous innovation of material science and technology, wearable electronic devices are widely used in various industries due to their excellent portability and flexibility. However, the...
Temperature changes play a large role in the day to day structural behavior of structures, but a smaller direct role in most contemporary Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) analyses. Temperature-Driven SHM will consider temperature as the principal d...
The thermal insulation properties of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) can be significantly improved with increasing the coating thickness. However, due to the weak bonding of high-thickness TBCs, the low reliability and short lifetime greatly limits t...
The three dimensional thermal model of a forced air-cooling battery thermal management system (BTMS) using aluminium foam heat sink (AFHS) is established, and the effects of porosity, pore density, and mass flow rate on the thermal and flow performan...
Thermal gradient is inevitable in a lithium-ion battery pack because of uneven heat generation and dissipation, which will affect battery aging. In this paper, an experimental platform for a battery cycle aging test is built that can simulate practic...
For the design of the next generation of microelectronic packages, thermal management is one of the key aspects and must be met by the development of polymers with enhanced thermal conductivity. While all polymer classes show a very low thermal condu...
Based on the inorganic modification of raw soil materials by using cement, fly ash, lime and other admixtures, the influence of modified jute fiber content on the strength of raw-soil-based wall materials was studied. The effects of the gradient dist...
The present paper is concerned with an analytical study of entropy generation in viscous, incompressible Couette flow between a stationary plate and a moving plate. The flow induced by the moving plate is assisted by a constant pressure gradient alon...
In this work, multilayer gradient coatings obtained by detonation spraying were studied. To obtain a multilayer gradient coating by detonation spraying, two modes with different numbers of shots of NiCrAlY and YSZ were developed. The presented result...
This article presents the nonlinear investigation of the thermal and mechanical buckling of orthotropic annular/circular single-layer/bilayer nanoplate with the Pasternak and Winkler elastic foundations based on the nonlocal strain gradient theory. T...
In this manuscript the dynamic response of porous functionally-graded (FG) Bernoulli–Euler nano-beams subjected to hygro-thermal environments is investigated by the local/nonlocal stress gradient theory of elasticity. In particular, the influence of...
Flip chip bonding technology on gold–tin (Au-Sn) microbumps for MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) and 3D packaging is becoming increasingly important in the electronics industry. The main advantages of Au-Sn microbumps are a low electrica...
An analytical study is conducted to examine the influence of thermal gradients and heat sources on the onset of two-component Rayleigh–Bènard (TCRB) convection using the Darcy model. The study takes into account the effects of local ther...
As an extension of conventional gradient, anti-symmetric oblique coupling gradient has a superior modal modification ability on composite laminates embedded with pre-strained shape memory alloys (SMA) wires, which is beneficial to suppress modal reso...
Aiming to relieve the large amount of wind power curtailment during the heating period in the North China region, a thermal-electric decoupling (TED) approach is proposed to both bring down the constraint of forced power output of combined heat and p...
To improve the wear resistance and fatigue life of Cu alloys, surface modification by combining the magnetron sputtering of Ti film followed by vacuum thermal diffusion is always applied, where the structure and composition of the fabricated film pla...
Bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) is a thermoelectric material that exhibits excellent thermoelectric properties primarily because of its low thermal conductivity. The ideal structure of Bi2Te3 contains nanocrystals with a high crystal orientation. However,...
Nanoplates have been extensively utilized in the recent years for applications in nanoengineering as sensors and actuators. Due to their operative nanoscale, the mechanical behavior of such structures might also be influenced by inter-atomic material...
In this study, the 3ω method was used to determine the thermal conductivity of nanofluids (ethylene glycol containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)) with temperature gradients. The thermal modeling of the traditional 3ω method wa...
The constant fluctuation of thermal loads on steel members, especially during construction, causes non-uniform distributions of temperatures, resulting in possible constructional and structural defects leading to unfavorable thermally induced respons...
Quartz Crystal Microbalances (QCM) are widely used instruments thanks to their stability, low mass, and low cost. Nevertheless, the sensitivity to temperature is their main drawback and is often a driver for their design. Though the crystal average t...
The Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) phenomenon is a natural event in which a system changes its symmetric state, apparently reasonless, in an asymmetrical one. Nevertheless, this occurrence could be hiding unknown inductive forces. An intriguing...
Porous (~10–20%) ZrO2-7–8 wt.% Y2O3 (YSZ) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) manufactured via air plasma spray (APS) and exhibiting a thickness range of ~250–500 µm, provide thermal insulation from the hot combustion gases to the...
The thermal properties of most clothing products are still not designed according to engineering science due to the lack of simple and acceptable measuring equipment and methods; the type of thermal insulation material, the number of layers of clothi...
LDPE (low-density polyethylene) foams were prepared using the improved compression moulding technique (ICM) with relative densities ranging from 0.3 to 0.7 and with different levels of chemical blowing agents (from 1% to 20%). The density gradients,...
Gradient structures containing nanograins in the surface layer have been introduced into Inconel 718 (IN718) nickel-based alloy using the surface mechanical grinding treatment technique. The thermal stability of the gradient IN718 alloy was investiga...
Crosslinked phenolic resin was prepared using hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) as a crosslinking agent in hydrochloric acid solution. The ablation-heat-resistant material was prepared by a pressure-assisted RTM (resin transfer molding) process with rein...
Gleeble thermomechanical simulators are widely utilized tools for the investigation of high-temperature deformation behavior in materials. However, temperature gradients that develop within the specimen during Gleeble compression tests have the poten...
Typical building inspection using Passive Infrared Thermography involves defect analysis, in which defects appear as abnormal temperature distributions in thermal images (thermograms) due to contrasts in the thermal conductive and emissive properties...
The two-field thermal conditions of local thermal nonequilibrium (LTNE) were used to investigate linear stability of thermal convection in a liquid-saturated, porous layer via the extended Brinkman–Darcy model for different non-uniform basic th...
Thermoelectric systems configured in multistring arrays of thermoelectric generators (TEGs) represent a promising solution for energy harvesting in environments with non-uniform thermal gradients. However, the presence of multiple maximum power point...
Thermally induced moisture flow in unsaturated soils involves complex coupled thermal–hydro processes with the moisture flow in both the vapor and liquid phases. The accurate measurement of the moisture flow in unsaturated sands remains a chall...
In winemaking, clarification and stabilization are the processes by which insoluble matter suspended in the wine (called lees) is removed before bottling. The light lees represent 2–4% of the total wine volume. Under certain circumstances, resu...
Owing to a long-term, extensive development model and inadequate industrial development planning, cases of atmospheric environment pollution frequently occur in Hebei province. By using such approaches as the Spatial Gini Coefficient, the Herfindahl&...
Sea breezes are frequently observed in the South Carolina/Georgia region of the Southeastern United States (SEUS) and can reach upwards of 150km inland. This region is unique among the places frequently affected by sea breeze due to it being a contin...
Bimetallic gradient alloys have attracted research attention recently due to their potential applications in the aerospace and automobile industries. In this study, Al-20Si/7075 bimetallic gradient alloys were successfully manufactured by co-spray fo...
Porous materials are a new type of engineering material with both functional and structural properties. Compared with regular porous structures and random porous structures, a gradient porous structure is a porous structure with a spatial variation m...
Easy-to-use thermal cycling for performing rapid and small-volume DNA amplification on a single chip has attracted great interest in the area of rapid field detection of biological agents. For this purpose, as a more practical alternative to conventi...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) thermal imagery offers several advantages for environmental monitoring, as it can provide a low-cost, high-resolution, and flexible solution to measure the temperature of the surface of the land. Limitations related to t...
The study was undertaken to illustrate a wide range of application of a gradient thermal probe in thermal characterisation of water reservoirs on the example of Lake Morskie Oko whose water temperature has been measured since 2006. For analysis, the...
Division-of-focal-plane (DoFP) polarization imaging systems have demonstrated considerable promise in target detection and tracking in complex backgrounds. However, existing methods face challenges, including dependence on complex image preprocessing...
The glass crystallization regime plays a crucial role in the fabrication of glass ceramics: it affects both phase composition and microstructure, and thus the properties of the final product. In the search for new glass-ceramic materials, the develop...
This work aims to determine how the temperature gradient orientation affects the heat exchange between two superposed fluid layers separated by zero wall thickness. The finite volume method (FVM) has been developed to solve the governing equations of...
A thickness gradient interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) was easily created that takes advantage of the relatively poor compatibility and curing rates discrepancy between epoxy (EP) and polyurethane (PU). Ultraviolet absorption spectrum (UV-Vis),...
The failure mechanism of a thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) system is investigated using cyclic thermo-mechanical loading with a thermal gradient. Hollow circular cylindrical specimens are employed, consisting of a nickel-based single-crystal alloy DD...
Salinity gradient resource presents an essential role for power generated in the process of pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO). Researchers proposed several designs for coupling the PRO process with the desalination plants, particularly reverse osmosis...
Storm events strongly influence water temperatures in the saturated substrate underlying stream channels, or the hyporheic zone (HZ). The goal of this study was to evaluate the impacts of storm events on thermal transport in the HZ. A year of tempera...
The structure and diversity of microbial communities developing in the combined gradient of temperature (44–19 °C), as well as concentration of oxygen (0–10 mg/L) and hydrogen sulfide (33–0.7 mg/L), were studied in the thermal s...
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