This paper presents a thermoelastic bending analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates by using a new quasi-3D hybrid type higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT). The mathematical model contains only 5 unknowns as the first order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The nonlinear term of the temperature field is modeled in such way that can be different from the shape functions of the di...

Modelling Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFC) is very difficult and the existing models are too complicated to be used for controlling design, especially for on-line control design. This paper presents the application of neural networks identification method to develop the nonlinear temperature model of MCFC stack. The hidden layer units of the neural networks consist of a set of nonlinear radia...

A nonlinear mathematical model was developed and experimentally validated to investigate the effects of changes in optical properties during interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP). The effects of dynamic optical properties were calculated using the Arrhenius damage model, resulting in a nonlinear optothermal response. This response was experimentally validated by measuring the temperature ri...

DNA has a well-defined structural transition--the denaturation of its double-stranded form into two single strands--that strongly affects its thermal transport properties. We show that, according to a widely implemented model for DNA denaturation, one can engineer DNA 'heattronic' devices that have a rapidly increasing thermal conductance over a narrow temperature range across the denaturation ...

Advances in nano-fabrication techniques has made it feasible to observe damping phenomena beyond the linear regime nano-mechanical systems. In this work, we report cubic non-linear palladium resonators. Nano-scale beams exposed a $H_2$ atmosphere become softer and display enhanced Duffing non-linearity as well at ultra low temperatures. The is highest lowest temperatures of $\sim 110\: mK$ decr...

In this paper, ‎the multi-sensor fault diagnosis in the exhaust temperature sensors of a V94.2 heavy duty gas turbine is presented‎. ‎A Laguerre network-based fuzzy modeling approach is presented to predict the output temperature of the gas turbine for sensor fault diagnosis‎. Due to the nonlinear dynamics of the gas turbine, in these models the Laguerre filter parts are related to the linear d...

Stream temperature, an important measure of ecosystem health, is expected to be altered by future changes in climate and land use, potentially leading to shifts in habitat distribution for aquatic organisms dependent on particular temperature regimes. To assess the sensitivity of stream temperature to change in a region where such a shift has the potential to occur, we examine the variability o...