Net-shape liquid composite molding (LCM) processes for the manufacturing of composite structures involve the permeation of a reactive thermoset polymeric resin through complex, fiber woven preforms. The physical behavior during the processing thus involves coupled multi-physics phenomena consisting of mass, thermal and species transport. The flow process models based on conservation of mass are...

The virtual crystal (VC) approximation for mass disorder is evaluated by examining two model alloy systems: Lennard-Jones argon and Stillinger-Weber silicon. In both material systems, the perfect crystal is alloyed with a heavier mass species up to equal concentration. The analysis is performed using molecular dynamics simulations and lattice dynamics calculations. Mode frequencies and lifetime...

We applied a recently developed single particle mass spectrometer to analyze the elemental composition of individual aerosol particles and applied the technique to study the kinetics of thermal decomposition of metal nitrate aerosols (aluminum, calcium, silver, and strontium). Such decomposition processes on the industrial scale is known as spray pyrolysis and is a common method for making meta...

This study addresses the effects of the SOC (State of Charge) and the charging-discharging process on the thermal runaway of 18650 lithium-ion batteries. A series of experiments were conducted on an electric heating and testing apparatus. The experimental results indicate that 6 W is the critical heating power for 40% SOC. With a 20 W constant heating rate, the thermal runaway initial temperatu...

The conductivity of a thermal-barrier coating composed of atmospheric plasma sprayed 8 mass percent yttria partially stabilized zirconia has been measured. This coating was sprayed on a substrate of 410 stainless steel. An absolute, steady-state measurement method was used to measure thermal conductivity from 400 to 800 K. The thermal conductivity of the coating is 0.62 W/(m⋅K). This measuremen...

We have constructed a regular binary thermal lattice gas model in which the thermal diffusion and mass diffusion are coupled and form two nonpropagating diffusive modes. The power spectrum is shown to be similar in structure as for the one in real fluids, in which the central peak becomes a combination of coupled entropy and concentration contributions. Our theoretical findings for the power sp...

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) combined with Mass Spectrometry (MS) can provide the ability to map and correlate the molecular and physical properties of samples [1, 2] at sub-micron resolutions. Our group has demonstrated such a platform using heated AFM probes [3] for the thermal desorption (TD) of molecules. Current heating techniques typically result in a minimum desorption crater diameter o...

the problem of steady magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid due to an exponentially permeable stretching sheet with heat source/sink in presence of thermal radiation is numerically investigated. the effect of transverse brownian motion and thermophoresis on heat transfer and nano particle volume fraction considered. the governing partial differential eq...

a pressure-based coupled heat and mass transfer model was used to simulate temperature and soil suction in a drying process within a clay soil column. closed form functions were used for all parameters needed in the governing equations. model predictions were compared with experimental data using the mean relative percentage deviation method. thermocouples and mini-gypsum blocks were used t...