The role of tropical Pacific ocean dynamics in regulating the ocean response to thermodynamic forcing is investigated using an ocean general circulation model (GCM) coupled to a model of the atmospheric mixed layer. It is found that the basin mean sea surface temperature (SST) change is less in the presence of varying ocean heat transport than would be the case if the forcing was everywhere bal...

A linear stability analysis of the parallel uniform flow in a horizontal channel with open upper boundary is carried out. The lower boundary is considered as an impermeable isothermal wall, while the open upper boundary is subject to a uniform heat flux and it is exposed to an external horizontal fluid stream driving the flow. An eigenvalue problem is obtained for the two-dimensional transverse...

The normal-mode expansion technique has been used to solve the uncoupled radiative heat transfer problem for an absorbing, emitting, isotropically scattering, nonisothermal, gray medium confined between specularly reflecting, gray parallel boundaries held at uniform but different temperatures. Solutions are given for the intensity of radiation, the incident radiation and the net radiation heat ...

A solution is given for the thermoelastic stress field due to the obstruction of a uniform heat flux by a plane crack in a generally anisotropic body. A Green's function formulation is used to reduce the problem to a set of singular integral equations which are solved in closed form. When the crack is assumed to be traction free, the crack opening displacement is found to be negative over one h...

Numerical analysis of hypersonic continuum and rarefied gas flows near blunt probes is presented under conditions of intensive gas blowing from the surface. Nonequilibrium parameters in the multicomponent flows were evaluated for slot and uniform injections of air, helium, and hydrogen. Numerical results indicate that the most effective cooling of the probe surface occurs at moderate uniform in...

2014 A cooled cubic cavity receiving a non uniform concentrated solar radiation is modelized, using the diffuse and semi-gray surface hypothesis and the net radiation method equations. Two more equations corresponding to the heat transfer to a cooling fluid permit to define a heat balance. Thus at thermal equilibrium, net fluxes and temperatures inside the cavity are calculated. An air-cooled s...

Abstrae--The normal-mode-expansion technique is used to obtain a semi-analytical solution for the angular distribution of radiation at any optical distance within a linearly anisotropicscattering, absorbing, emitting, non-isothermal, gray medium between two parallel reflecting boundaries. Both conservative and nonconservative cases are considered. The general problem is decomposed into simpler ...

Flow boiling of the perfluorinated dielectric fluid FC-77 in a silicon microchannel heat sink is investigated. The heat sink contains 60 parallel microchannels each of 100 m width and 389 m depth. Twenty-five evenly distributed temperature sensors in the substrate yield local heat transfer coefficients. The pressure drop across the channels is also measured. Experiments are conducted at five ...

We study the transmission coefficient of a plane wave through a 1D finite quasi-periodic system – the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model – embedding in an infinite uniform harmonic chain. By varying the mass of atoms in the infinite uniform chain, we obtain the transmission coefficients for all eigenfrequencies. The phonon localization of the incommensurated FK chain is also studied in terms of the t...