According to the Auckland climate, building passive design more focus on improving winter indoor thermal and health conditions. Based on field study data of indoor air temperature and relative humidity close to ceiling and floor of an insulated Auckland townhouse with and without a whole home mechanical ventilation system, this study is to analysis variation of indoor microclimate data of an Au...

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was applied to elucidate the thermal behavior of fowl feather keratins (barbs, rachis, and calamus) with different morphological features. The DSC curves exhibited a clear and relatively large endothermic peak at about 110-160 degrees C in the wet condition. A considerable decrease in transition temperature with urea and its helical structure content esti...

in this work we investigate the thermal entanglement between two-level atoms and photons in a nonlinear cavity. we consider intensity-dependent couplings and calculate the negativity, as a measure of atom-photonentanglement. the cavity is assumed to be at a temperature t, so that all number of photons, and at the same time, both atomic states, with definite probabilities, are present. we then d...

We review the heuristic arguments suggesting that any thermal quantum field theory, which can be interpreted as a quantum statistical mechanics of (interacting) relativistic particles, obeys certain restrictions on its number of local degrees of freedom. As in the vacuum representation, these restrictions can be expressed by a ‘nuclearity condition’. If a model satisfies this nuclearity conditi...

the acetylation of various alcohols and phenols was performed successfully using acetic anhydride in the presence of citric acid coated magnetite nanoparticles as catalyst under solvent-free condition and at 45 °c. the catalyst showed high thermal stability and was recovered and reused at least 5 times without any considerable loss of activity. the present process is environmentally benign and ...

To study the temperature rise of dry-type transformer in different cooling conditions, finite element method is used in this paper to calculate temperature distribution in the transformer. Firstly, thermal-fluid coupled model of a transfomer is built up,and the equivalent heat generation of this model is figured out according to the results of delivery test. Then, thermal-fluid coupled model is...

Seth’s transition theory is applied to the problems of thickness variation parameter in a thin rotating disc by finite deformation. Neither the yield criterion nor the associated flow rule is assumed here. The results obtained here are applicable to compressible materials. If the additional condition of incompressibility is imposed, then the expression for stresses corresponds to those arising ...