Thermal energy storage has always been one of the most critical components in residential solar water heating applications. Solar radiation is a time-dependent energy source with an intermittent character. The heating demands of a residential house are also time dependent. However, the energy source and the demands of a house (or building), in general, do not match each other, especially in sol...

This work demonstrates that excess hot-carrier currents in SO1 MOSFETs are caused by self-heating. Self-heating-free Ism data should be used for dynamic lifetime extrapolation due to long thermal time constant. The underlying mechanism, increased impact ionization with temperature at low drain bias, is studied experimentally from the angle of thermal activation energy. Our study indicates that ...

Self-heating induced failure of graphene devices synthesized from both chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and epitaxial means is compared using a combination of infrared thermography and Raman imaging. Despite a larger thermal resistance, CVD devices dissipate >3x the amount of power before failure than their epitaxial counterparts. The discrepancy arises due to morphological irregularities implic...

Thermal degradation of poly(lactic acid) (PLA), a biodegradable and bioabsorbable polyester, has been investigated under inert atmosphere using both isothermal and dynamic heating regimes.. Two kinetic models, one for isothermal and the other for dynamic heating regims were used to fit the experimental data. It has been demonstrated that the thermal degradation of PLA is a one-stage process wit...

Iron oxide nanoparticles with uniform sizes between 13 nm and 180 nm can be selectively prepared through the "heating up" thermal decomposition method by using decanoic acid and carefully tuning the heating rate.

So far, the therapeutic outcome of hyperthermia has shown heterogeneous responses depending on how thermal stress is applied. We studied whether extrinsic heating (EH, hot air) and intrinsic heating (magnetic heating [MH] mediated by nanoparticles) induce distinct effects on pancreatic cancer cells (PANC-1 and BxPC-3 cells). The impact of MH (100 µg magnetic nanoparticles [MNP]/mL; H=23.9 kA/m;...

We use hydrodynamical simulations to assess the impact of radiative cooling and ‘pre-heating’ on predictions for the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) effect. We find that cooling significantly reduces both the mean SZ signal and its angular power spectrum. Pre-heating can give a higher mean distortion, while leaving the angular power spectrum below that found in a simulation without heating or cooling. ...

Local thermal equilibrium is an often-used hypothesis when studying heat transfer in porous media. Examination of non-equilibrium phenomena shows that this hypothesis is usually not valid during rapid heating or cooling. The results from this theoretical study con®rm that local thermal equilibrium in a ̄uidized bed depends on the size of the layer, mean pore size, interstitial heat transfer coe...

We consider the Nambu and Hamiltonian representations of RayleighBénard convection with a nonlinear thermal heating effect proportional to the Eckert number (Ec). The model we use is an extension of the classical Lorenz63 model with 4 kinematic and 6 thermal degrees of freedom. The conservative parts of the dynamical equations which include all nonlinearities satisfy Liouville’s theorem and per...

A shear flow of particles in a laser-driven two-dimensional (2D) dusty plasma is observed in a study of viscous heating and thermal conduction. Video imaging and particle tracking yields particle velocity data, which we convert into continuum data, presented as three spatial profiles: mean particle velocity (i.e., flow velocity), mean-square particle velocity, and mean-square fluctuations of pa...