In the current study, a thermal model was used to investigate the effects of welding parameters on the distribution of temperature in wide gap aluminothermic rail welds. To solve the governing thermal equation, SUTCAST, a finite difference program (FDM) was employed while different aspects such as phase change and convective heat transfer in weld pool were taken into account in the numerical so...

Modeling based feasibility study has been performed on vascularized human skin model with the motivation to device a non-invasive and non-contact novel methodology to characterize the increasing subcutaneous fat thickness. The study considers an integrated model for human skin exposed to natural convection, local radiation, and evaporation due to sweating during thermal recovery phase after rem...

A better understanding of the psycho-physiological mechanisms driving human thermal perception during dynamic conditions is important to improve physiological-based comfort models. During transients, two phenomena overshoot and alliesthesia concurrently affect comfort. However, they have date been analysed separately. In this paper, we report results an experiment exploring subjective responses...

Physiological processes that set an organism's thermal limits are in part determining recent shifts in biogeographic distribution ranges due to global climate change. Several characteristics of the heat-shock response (HSR), such as the onset, maximal, and upper limit of heat-shock protein (Hsp) synthesis, contribute to setting the acute upper thermal limits of most organisms. Aquatic animals f...