The thermal characterization test of NASA’s 12.5-kW Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding has been completed. This thruster was developed to support a number of potential Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration Mission concepts, including the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission concept. As a part of the preparation for this characterization test, an infrared-based, non-contact the...

Thermal material properties play a fundamental role in the thermal management of microelectronic systems. The porous nature of carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays results in a very high surface area to volume ratio, which makes the material attractive for surface driven heat transfer mechanisms. Here, we report on the heat transfer performance of lithographically defined micropins made of carbon nanot...

in present studies the synthesis, characterization and biological properties ofoxovanadium(iv) coordination compounds of 4[n-(4′-ethylbenzalidene)amino] antipyrinethiosemicarbazone (ebaapts) and 4[n-(2′,4′-dimethylbenzalidene)amino] antipyrinethiosemicarbazone (dmbaapts) with the general composition vox2l (x = c1-, br-, i-, no3-or ncs-) and vo(cio4)2(l)h2o (l = ebaapts or dmbaapts) are describe...

We report the synthesis and thermoelectric characterization of composite nanocrystals composed of a tellurium core functionalized with the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS). Solution processed nanocrystal films electronically out perform both PEDOT:PSS and unfunctionalized Te nanorods while retaining a polymeric thermal conductivity, resultin...

We completely determine the complexity status of the dominating set problem for hereditary graph classes defined by forbidden induced subgraphs with at most five vertices.

A permutation is said to be –avoiding if it does not contain any subsequence having all the same pairwise comparisons as . This paper concerns the characterization and enumeration of permutations which avoid a set of subsequences increasing both in number and in length at the same time. Let be the set of subsequences of the form “ ”, being any permutation on . For ! the only subsequence in #" i...

We completely determine the complexity status of the 3-colorability problem for hereditary graph classes defined by two forbidden induced subgraphs with at most five vertices. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Ocean thermal structure is critical for the intensity change of tropical cyclones (TCs). It has been operationally derived from satellite altimetry for TC forecasting and research. The existing derivation is, however, based on a simple two-layer method; as a result, only two isotherms can be obtained to coarsely characterize the subsurface ocean thermal structure. Improvement on the vertical re...

The paper presents two methods for measuring the dilatation resulting from thermal expansion. The contact based stylus measurement method and the contact less heterodyne laser interferometry have been compared to prove their effectiveness in measuring small dilatations. The paper presents shortly the application of both methods for measuring thermal expansion, and compares their applicability f...