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Influence of heat treatment parameters on the functional behavior and corrosion performance of a shape memory wire actuator
(Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2020-04)In the present study, the effect of heat treatment parameters on the functional response, corrosion behavior and microstructural evolution of NiTi shape memory alloys were investigated. Various heat treatment regimes were ... -
Influence of turbulent flow characteristics on flame behaviour in diffuser combustors
(Elsevier, 2019-03-01)The influence of turbulence on flame location in a diffuser-type combustor is the focus of this study. Two types of diffuser combustors were selected to study the influence of turbulence intensity and length scale on flame ... -
Influence of warm rolling and aging on the microstructural evolution and mechanical behavior of AZ31 magnesium alloy
(American Institute of Physics Inc., 2019)The microstructural evolution and tensile properties of AZ31 after warm rolling and different aging methods and conditions were investigated. The warm rolling was conducted on the as-received AZ31 after homogenization at ... -
Integrated engineering and architecture for the energy efficient academic buildings
(International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2015-12)In this paper, we outline a comprehensive and integrated collaboration between engineering and architecture team to build an energy efficient building. Within the framework of the EU FP7 project, titled NEED4B, we have ... -
An integrated homogenization–based topology optimization via RBF mapping strategies for additively manufactured FGLS and its application to bandgap structures
(Springer Nature, 2020)The manufacturing of lattice structures has been greatly facilitated thanks to the advances in additive manufacturing. Functionally graded lattice (FGL) structures, a major class of such structures, developed using topology ... -
Integrating magnetic heads with plasmonic nanostructures in multilayer configurations
(IEEE, 2013-07)Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is an emerging technology that has increased the areal density of conventional recording techniques for hard disc drives. Integrated heads have enabled this increase through localized ... -
Interaction between free-stream turbulence and tip-vortices of wind turbine blades with and without winglets
(IOP Publishing, 2018)Experimental investigations of the free-stream turbulence impact on the tip-vortices generated in wind turbine blades have been performed. The investigation is done by exposing an efficient laboratory scale wind turbine ... -
An investigation into flow and heat transfer for a slot impinging synthetic jet
(Elsevier, 2016-09)According to the latest trends in miniature consumer and military electronics, there is a need for compact cooling solutions to meet performance requirements at compact volumes. Successful technology must feature a thin ... -
An investigation into flow and heat transfer of an ultrasonic micro-blower device for electronics cooling applications
(Elsevier, 2016-05-08)As compact electronics increase in functionality, new electronics cooling approaches must be more effective, and they must be lower in form factor. In this paper, we investigated the cooling performance of a miniature ... -
An investigation into momentum and temperature fields of a meso-scale slot synthetic jet for a small jet-to-surface spacing
(Begell House Inc., 2014)Impinging synthetic jets have been identified as a promising technology for cooling miniature structures. Recognizing their thermal performance on the target surface requires a fundamental understanding of the momentum ... -
An investigation into momentum and temperature fields of a meso-scale synthetic jet
(IEEE, 2014)Thermal management has become a critical part of advanced micro and nano electronics systems due to high heat transfer rates. More constraints such as compactness, small footprint area, lightweight, high reliability, ... -
An investigation into performance characteristics of an axial flow Fan using CFD for electronic devices
(ASME, 2015)Rotating fans are widely utilized in thermal management applications and their accurate characterization has recently become even a more critical issue for thermofluids engineers. The present study investigates the ... -
An investigation into the optothermal behavior of a high power red light emitting diode: impact of an optical path
Monochromatic light emitting diodes (LEDs) are getting more attention day by day for a very wide range of applications such as general lighting, signage, automotive lighting, display, water purification, and skin imaging. ... -
Investigation of combined optical and thermal effects on phosphor converted light-emitting diodes with liquid immersion cooling
(SPIE, 2018)The inclusion of phosphor into a high brightness light-emitting diode (LED) package is a complicated task since LEDs are encapsulated with a phosphor and epoxy mixture to convert blue photons to white light. Moreover, this ... -
Investigation of corrosion behavior of carbon steel for petroleum pipeline applications under turbulent flow conditions
(Institute of Information Science, 2020)This study investigates the corrosion of steel samples immersed in water with a dynamic corrosion setup at different pH values for three different velocities and three different exposure time. The characteristics of material ... -
Investigation of P-wave scalar and S-wave pseudo-scalar charmonia semileptonic transitions to the Ds(D) meson in QCD
(IOP Publishing, 2010)In this work, the semileptonic decays of the scalar charmonium state Xc0 and the pseudo scalar charmonia states ηc(1s) and ηc(2s) into Ds and D mesons are analyzed. The form factors of the transitions Xc0 → Ds(D)_ν and ... -
An investigation of performance of synthetic jets emanating from circular, elliptical and rectangular nozzles
(IEEE, 2018-07-24)Impinging synthetic jets have been considered as a future solution for cooling miniature structures. Synthetic jet performance is sensitive to a number of parameters such as orifice size, orifice shape and nozzle-to-target ... -
Investigation of power distribution on an axial fan
(IEEE, 2016)Forced convection cooling systems utilize fans which can be axial or radial, small or large in many different configurations. Efficiency of a fan depends on its electrical and mechanical designs as well as the environmental ... -
Investigation of the effect of particle stability on the transport properties and thermal behavior of ethylene glycol-water/SiO2 binary nanofluids
(IOP Publishing, 2020-04-09)Nanofluids (Nfs) are considered as an effective working media in different thermal processes. Over the years, much attention has been paid to the problem of nanoparticle stability in base fluids in an unconfined area of ... -
Investigation of the refrigerator bottom cabinet cavity acoustic behavior
(2013-08)This thesis investigates the computational and experimental analysis for the acoustic behavior of a bottom cabinet cavity in a refrigerator. The finite element and analytical approaches are used in order to determine the ...
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