In this study, snapshots of operating frequency profiles of domestic microwave ovens were collected to reveal the extent of microwave frequency variations under different operation conditions. A computer simulation model was developed based on the finite difference time domain method to analyze the influence of the shifting frequency on heating patterns of foods in a microwave oven. The results...

Since the energy consumption has become one of the crisis of modern buildings, modeling the Iranian past architecture patterns could be helpful. The shopping streets as one of the main sectors consuming energy locate near the open spaces it seems, therefore, they need more thermal comfort. However, using passive techniques, the Iranian traditional bazaars architecture solved the problems regard...

an attempt was made to investigate the thermal and residual stress distribution in a novel three layer (la 2 zr 2 o 7 / 8ysz/ nicraly) during a real-like heating regime which includes heating, service time and final cooling. for achieving maximum accuracy and consistency in calculation of thermal and mechanical properties of hybrid coating system, all related andrequired properties were introdu...

In Northern China, due to the high penetration of coal-fired cogeneration facilities, which are generally equipped with extraction-condensing steam turbines, lots of wind power resources may be wasted during the heating season. In contrast, considerable coal is consumed in the power generation sector. In this article, firstly it is revealed that there exists a serious divergence in the ratio of...

OBJECTIVES Infection of implants is a major problem in elective and trauma surgery. Heating is an effective way to reduce the bacterial load in food preparation, and studies on hyperthermia treatment for cancer have shown that it is possible to heat metal objects with pulsed electromagnetic fields selectively (PEMF), also known as induction heating. We therefore set out to answer the following ...

Hardening of steel wires requires heating the wires above their Curie temperature, temperature at which the material becomes nonmagnetic causing a sudden change in the load. This change affects to the induction heating converters and is difficult to be evaluated due to the complexity of the problem and the interdependence of the parameters. In this paper a continuous Post-Curie wire heating mod...

This paper presents a parallel approach to estimate the parameters in the heat loading of a district heating system by use of the traditional particle swarm optimisation (TPSO) on the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) using OpenCL. The running time of the algorithm is greatly reduced compared to running on CPU. The heat load is approximated by the sum of time dependent and temperature dependent com...