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Report from the 2007 thermalHUB Community Planning Workshop
17 Jan. 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Timothy Fisher, Michael McLennan, Jennifer Lukes, Greg Walker, Li Shi, M. Pinar Menguc, Suresh V. Garimella, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Jayathi Murthy
This report documents the findings from the inaugural Community Planning Workshop for thermalHUB, an evolving web resource and the subject of a new project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to define the elements of a cyberinfrastructure initiative that will serve the global heat …
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Radiative properties of particles and fibers
01 Feb. 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Leonid Dombrovsky
It is a draft version of Chapter 2 of the book "Thermal Radiation in Disperse Systems: An Engineering Approach" by Leonid Dombrovsky and Dominique Baillis. The book manuscript is preparing now by the authors. Since Chapter 2 is practically ready, I am submitting it to Thermal HUB. I hope, this …
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Design of electronic heat sinks
17 Jan. 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Ralph L Webb
This paper discusses the “Inlet Temperature Difference” (ITD) based heat-exchanger (and its variants) design methodology frequently used by designers of electronic heat sinks. The methodology is at variance with the accepted methodology recommended in standard heat-transfer text books – the …
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Thermal Performance of a Disk-Shaped Miniature Heat Pipe with Nanofluid
18 Jan. 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Ping-Hei Chen
The present study aims to investigate the effect of suspended nanoparticles in base fluids, namely nanofluids, on the thermal resistance of a disk-shaped miniature heat pipe (DMHP). In this study, two types of nanoparticles, gold and carbon, in aqueous solution are used respectively. An …
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NANOSCALE HEAT TRANSFER COURSE FOR UNDERGRADUATES
08 Dec. 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Patrick Edward Hopkins, Pamela NOrris
The growing interest in nanoscale energy transfer research and funding in mechanical engineering departments far out weighs the availability for formal training of fundamental ideas and concepts in this area. Although several universities offer formal graduate courses in nanoscale energy transfer, …
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Design of electronic heat sinks
21 Jun. 2009 | Publications | Contributor(s): Ralph L Webb
This PowerPoint presentation discusses the “Inlet Temperature Difference” (ITD) based heat-exchanger (and its variants) design methodology frequently used by designers of electronic heat sinks. The methodology is at variance with the accepted methodology recommended in standard heat-transfer …