In the field of acoustic echo cancellation, it is well known that the amount of cancellation attainable in real-world systems is limited. Euphemistically this limitation has been referred to in the acoustic echo cancellation community as the “20 dB rule” [1]. This rule reflects the observation that, typically, one can obtain only about 20 to 30 dB of acoustic echo cancellation in actual physica...

Fruit physiology is strongly affected by both fruit temperature and water losses through transpiration. Fruit temperature and its transpiration vary with environmental factors and fruit characteristics. In line with previous studies, measurements of physical and thermal fruit properties were found to significantly vary between fruit tissues and maturity stages. To study the impact of these vari...

For sub-100 nm CMOS technologies, leakage power forms a significant component of the total power dissipation, especially due to within-die and die-to-die variations in process (P), temperature (T) and supply voltage (V). Since leakage power and operating temperature are electrothermally coupled to each other, increasing power dissipation and thermal problems are becoming key concerns not only f...

As integrated circuit (IC) technology advances to the sub-100nm region, power and associated thermal effects are becoming a limiting factor in high-performance circuit design. In addition to battery lifetime for mobile devices, power and temperature are emerging as concerns due to the strong temperature-dependence of leakage power, circuit performance, IC package cost and reliability. In tradit...

[1] We present a method for determining streambed seepage rates using time series thermal data. The new method is based on quantifying changes in phase and amplitude of temperature variations between pairs of subsurface sensors. For a reasonable range of streambed thermal properties and sensor spacings the time series method should allow reliable estimation of seepage rates for a range of at le...

Abstract. Thermal lens signals in solutions of rhodamine B laser dye in methanol are measured using the dual beam pump-probe technique. The nature of variations of signal strength with concentration is found to be different for 514 and 488 nm Ar + laser excitations. However, both the pump wavelengths produce an oscillatory type variation of thermal lens signal amplitude with the concentration o...

Several approaches to calibration of the Kinect as a range sensor have been presented in the past. Those approaches do not take into account a possible influence of thermal and environmental conditions. This paper shows that variations of the temperature and air draft have a notable influence on Kinect’s images and range measurements. Based on these findings, practical rules are stated to reduc...

Here we show that variations of temperature, even of a few degrees in amplitude, induce the ageing of a granular pile. In particular, we report measurements of physical properties of a granular heap submitted to thermal cycles. Namely, we focus on the evolution of the thermal linear-expansion coefficient and of the thermal conductivity of the pile with the number of cycles. The present contribu...

Thermal characteristics of pressure-driven, power-law fluid flows through narrow confinements are analyzed following a semi-analytical approach, by taking into consideration the electrokinetic effects beyond the Debye-Hückel limit. The influence of the induced streaming potential on the flow velocity, temperature and Nusselt number are delineated for parametric variations of the ionic Peclet nu...

Theoretical available values of thermal conductivity are commonly different from the experimentally obtained values. In the present work, a thermodynamic system has been considered and variations in temperature in different elements were analyzed and corresponding thermal conductivities were calculated. These values were compared and the corrected values were justified on the basis of a mathema...