Bending Plate Provides Unexpected Heat Source

Superconvergent eigenvalue bending plate element

Innovative wick design for multi-source, flat plate heat pipes

We present a novel micro-heat pipe wick design and fabrication technique to significantly boost the effective thermal conductivity of the heat pipe relative to the monolithic substrate material. Extensive porous flow modeling of the process has provided critical information on the key parameters and the resulting anisotropic wick designs have shown robust performance improvements. A methanol ch...

Heat transfer in MHD nanofluid flow over a cone and plate in the presence of heat source/sink

In this study, we presented a mathematical model for analyzing the heat source/sink effect on magnetohydrodynamic two-dimensional ferrofluid flow past a cone and a vertical plate in the presence of volume fraction of ferrous nanoparticles. The governing partial differential equations are transformed as ordinary differential equations making use of similarity solutions and solved numerically wit...

Thermoelastic Analysis of a Rectangular Plate with Nonhomogeneous Material Properties and Internal Heat Source

This article deals with the determination of temperature distribution, displacement and thermal stresses of a rectangular plate having nonhomogeneous material properties with internal heat generation. The plate is subjected to sectional heating. All the material properties except Poisson’s ratio and density are assumed to be given by a simple power law along x direction. Solution of the two-dim...

Stress boundary conditions for plate bending

The determination of the appropriate boundary conditions for a two-dimensional theory of elastic flat plates (and shells) consistent with the expected order of accuracy of the theory is both critical and challenging. The reciprocal theorem of elasticity will be applied in a novel way to obtain the appropriate stress boundary conditions for plate bending accurate to all order (with respect to th...