Phase change materials are substances that absorb and release thermal energy during the process of melting and freezing. This characteristic makes phase change material (PCM)  a favourite choice to integrate it in buildings. Stephan problem including melting and solidification in PMC materials is an practical problem in many engineering processes. The position of the moving boundary, its veloci...

A numerical finite difference study has been earned out for two dimensional radiation-natural convection interaction phenomena in a vertical circular pin located at a non-participating (i.e. transparent) fluid. The coupled conservation equations in boundary layer (continuity, momentum, and energy equations) and pin energy equation are solved simultaneously using modified box method and fully im...

Recent experiments have shown that it is possible to self-assemble very uniform polymeric microfibers and nanofibers by exploiting elasto-capillary thinning of macroscopic liquid bridges (Harfenist et al., Nano Lett., 4(10), 2004). We develop a model of this process that describes the simultaneous viscoelasto-capillary thinning and drying of polymeric liquid filaments. A one-dimensional formula...

The buckling of rate dependent structures is not a topic often discussed in the literature. Methods to predict such exist, but only few experimental works have been published, and even less when considering thick shell structures. In this work we are interested elasto-visco-plastic hemi-egg shells. We follow modelling/experimental approach analyse problem. Buckling experiments at room temperatu...

abstract. the main contribution of the current paper is to propose a new effective numerical method for solving the first-order linear matrix differential equations. properties of the legendre basis operational matrix of integration together with a collocation method are applied to reduce the problem to a coupled linear matrix equations. afterwards, an iterative algorithm is examined for solvin...

Introduction: According to the literature, optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be used measure radiation absorbed dose. This study was carried out to design a computed tomography system for the calculation of absorbed dose and optimization of dose delivery in radiotherapy using gel dosimeters. Material and Methods: An advanced charge-coupled device based OCT system was developed in laborator...