Two-body interatomic potentials in the Morse potential form have been developed for bismuth telluride, and the potentials are used in molecular dynamics simulations to predict the thermal conductivity. The densityfunctional theory with local-density approximations is first used to calculate the total energies for many artificially distorted Bi2Te3 configurations to produce the energy surface. T...

Thermal conductivity of a s10,10d carbon nanotube filled with C60 fullerenes (or a peapod) is computed using direct molecular-dynamics simulations with the Tersoff-Brenner potential for C-C bonding interactions and the van der Waals potential for nonbonding interactions. The temperature-dependent thermal conductivity of the peapod, while showing qualitatively similar behavior to that of an unfi...

The present study investigates the influence of individual and combined hydrogen peroxide and thermal pre-treatment of waste activated sludge on anaerobic digestion. For so doing, it employs anaerobic batch reactors in the mesophilic conditions. For comparison, soluble fractions of organic matter, biogas production, biochemical methane potential, removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD), and vol...

Energy crisis, global warming and other environmental issues are what motivate researchers to find new strategies to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Recently, using phase change materials (PCM) in the building’s envelopes has drawn significant attention as an energy-saving method, which helps in increasing the building’s thermal capacity. In the present research, the effects of the main...

Results of electro-thermo-elastic analysis of a functionally graded thick-walled spherical shell made of temperature dependent materials are presented in this article. All material properties are assumed temperature-dependent and also are graded along the thickness direction based on power function. Temperature dependency is accounted for all material properties including, thermal, mechanical a...

This paper is an attempt to determine quasi-static thermal stresses in a thin elliptical plate which is subjected to transient temperature on the top face with zero temperature on the lower face and the homogeneous boundary condition of the third kind on the fixed elliptical curved surface. The solution to conductivity equation is elucidated by employing a classical method. The solution of stre...

Thrombin generation monitoring has the potential to be used as a clinical diagnostic tool in the near future. However, robust preanalytical conditions may be required, and one factor that has been reported is in-vitro contact activation that might influence in-vitro measurements of thrombin generation and thereby act as an unpredictable pre-analytical variable. The aim of the current study was ...

The effect of surface bond-order loss on the electronic thermal conductivity of metallic polycrystalline films is examined using Boltzmann transport theory. A modification of the grain boundary potential barrier has been made by adding depressed potential wells of intra-atomic trapping C. Q. Sun, Phys. Rev. B 69, 045105 2004 to both sides of the grain boundaries. Electron scattering by film sur...