Window frame material has significant impact on the thermal performance of the window. Moreover, with sustainable design becoming a necessity, window frame materials need to have higher levels of environmental performance to be considered sustainable. As a result, a holistic performance metric is needed to assess window frame material. Three similar frames were considered, manufactured from alu...

Improvements in thermoelectric material performance over the past two decades have largely been based on decreasing the phonon thermal conductivity. Enhancing the power factor has been less successful in comparison. In this work, a peak power factor of ∼106 μW⋅cm-1⋅K-2 is achieved by increasing the hot pressing temperature up to 1,373 K in the p-type half-Heusler Nb0.95Ti0.05FeSb. The high powe...

The loss of energy especially in industrial and residential buildings is one of the main reasons of increased energy consumption. Improving the thermal insulation properties of materials is a fundamental method for reducing the energy losses. Polymeric foams are introduced as materials with excellent thermal insulation properties for this purpose. In the present study, a deep theoretical invest...

In this work we perform a theoretical analysis of the thermoelectric performance of polycrystalline Si NWs by considering both electron and phonon transport. The simulations are calibrated with experimental data from monocrystalline and polycrystalline structures. We show that heavily doped polycrystalline NW structures of grain size below 100nm might offer an alternative approach to achieve si...

Increasing demand on the performance of Subsea Production Systems (SPS) suggests a need for more detailed investigation of fluid behavior taking place in subsea equipment. Complete CFD cool down analyses of subsea equipment are very time demanding. The objective of this paper is to investigate a Locked CFD approach, which enables significant reduction of the computational time and at the same t...

One of the biggest challenges in wireless communication systems consists in achieving flexible dual-band receivers with maximum hardware share and minimum power consumption. The key for surpassing this challenge is the feasibility and performance evaluation for the different receiver topologies at system level stage. This task has its degree of complexity, by the fact that the receiver blocks c...

a small salt gradient solar pond with an average surface area of 1.8 m2 and depth of 0.8m has been tested. the depths of storage, gradient and surface zones are 0.3, 0.27 and 0.07m, respectively. the temperature of the storage zone for the summer days reaches its maximum of 65˚ c after about 8 days. daily variation of the storage zone temperature was about 8˚c which is due to small volume of th...

We investigate the influence of thermal effects on the high-speed performance of 1.3-μm InAs/GaAs quantum-dot lasers in a wide temperature range (5-50°C). Ridge waveguide devices with 1.1 mm cavity length exhibit small signal modulation bandwidths of 7.51 GHz at 5°C and 3.98 GHz at 50°C. Temperature-dependent K-factor, differential gain, and gain compression factor are studied. While the intrin...