Thermal rectification is a phenomenon in which thermal transport along a specific axis is dependent upon the sign of the temperature gradient or heat current. This phenomenon offers improved thermal management of electronics as size scales continue to decrease and new technologies emerge by having directions of preferred thermal transport. For most applications where thermally rectifying materi...

The numerical simulation and two kinds of experiments are conducted to investigate the thermal performance of several kinds of heat spreaders for high power memory module. For numerical study, commercial code, Flotherm, is used to model the 1GByte DDR memory module array. The convection heat transfer is analyzed for the memory module array with solid heat spreader under the airflow condition. F...

The changing configurations of continents due to plate tectonics is thought to be responsible for some of the variation in climate over the last 600 Ma. Different topological constraints on the oceans may affect their ability to transport heat poleward and change the equilibrium pole-equator temperature of Earth. An ocean model was run for three simple continental geometries to determine the ef...

Compensation of the poleward eddy heat transport by the heat transport of an eddy-induced mean meridional overturning cell is a common feature in many eddyresolving ocean models. It has been ,argued that this is the result of the weak thermal driving of the ocean. As the actual air/sea coupling is scale dependent, it might be questioned whether the approximation of weak thermal driving is relev...

the heat and mass transfer analysis for mhd casson fluid boundary layer flow over a permeable stretching sheet through a porous medium is carried out. the effect of non-uniform heat generation/absorption and chemical reaction are considered in heat and mass transport equations correspondingly. the heat transfer analysis has been carried out for two different heating processes namely; the prescr...

the falling and settling of solid particles in gases and liquids is a natural phenomenon happens in many industrial processes. this phenomenon has altered pure forced convection to a combination of heat conduction and heat convection in a flow over a plate. in this paper, the coupling of conduction (inside the plate) and forced convection of a non-homogeneous nanofluid flow (over a flat plate) ...

A novel experimental approach is developed for characterizing the performance of heat pipe wick structures. This approach simulates the actual operation of wick structures in a heat pipe. Open, partially submerged, sintered copper wicks of varying pore size are studied under the partially saturated conditions found in normal heat pipe operation. A vertical wick orientation, where the capillary ...

Opening of Southern Ocean gateways may have had a controlling influence on the evolution of global climate. The largest step in the history of Cenozoic climate, from an Eocene bGreenhouseQ toward the modern glaciated state, is correlated with opening of a deep water connection between the Southern Indian and Southern Pacific Oceans. This study synthesizes results from previous work, assesses th...

Toroidal rotation is a key part of the design of ITER because of its ability to stabilize resistive wall modes. Understanding of the intrinsic rotation drive in plasmas is important because it will be difficult to externally torque a plasma the size of ITER. This section will cover phenomenology of the toroidal rotation and momentum transport processes. First, a historial understanding of heat ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to study the thermal and mechanical phenomena of heat conduction induced by ultrafast laser heating of nanoscale Si films. A distribution of internal heat source obeying Beer–Lambda law is applied to model the laser energy deposition in the film and to calculate the induced temperature and stress distributions. Thermal waves a...