Altered thermal regimes associated with climate change are impacting significantly on the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the Earth's natural ecosystems, with important implications for the biology of aquatic organisms. As well as impacting the biology of individual species, changing thermal regimes have the capacity to mediate ecological interactions between species, and ...

 Thermal behavior is expected to be an important design consideration for the next generation of microprocessors. Most dynamic thermal management techniques are based on the principle of ‘reactive throttling’, where some form of performance throttling (such as voltage or frequency scaling) is invoked, after a pre-architected temperature threshold has been exceeded. As such, there is performanc...

Thermal cycling is widely used as a qualification test in the microelectronic industry. This paper investigates an intriguing failure mode observed in such a test. Near the corners of a silicon die, shear stresses arise due to thermal expansion mismatch between the silicon and the packaging substrate. These shear stresses may have a small magnitude, being transmitted through packaging polymers,...

Concrete has the potential to become a solution for thermal energy storage (TES) integrated in concentrating solar power (CSP) systems due to its good thermal and mechanical properties and low cost of material. In this study, a low strength concrete (C20) is tested at high temperatures up to 600 ◦C. Specimens are thermally cycled at temperatures in the range of 400–300 ◦C, 500–300 ◦C, and 600–3...

We prove the following results : (a) The Cube-Connected Cycles network of dimension n is a subgraph of the Butterry network of dimension n. (b) The Shuue-Exchange network of dimension n is a subgraph of the DeBruijn network of dimension n.

An underdeveloped class of oscillatory passive heat transport cycles are discussed that have the potential to transport significantly higher heat loads than current heat pipes. Prototype cycles employing inferior working fluids have demonstrated transport of higher heat loads over significantly greater distances than similarly sized heat pipes (including CPLs and LHPs) employing ammonia. Most o...

Necessary and sufficient conditions on n and A are given for the existence an edge-disjoint decomposition of AKn into copies of the graph of a 3-dimensional cube. Also, necessary and sufficient conditions on m, nand>' are given for similar decompositions of >'Km,n'