Contractile and energetic performance of bundles of muscle fibres from the soleus of mice overexpressing uncoupling protein 3 (UCP-3tg) were compared with the performance of bundles from wild-type mice. Force and heat production were measured during a series of thirty 0.2 s isometric tetani at L(o), the length optimal for force. UCP-3tg fibres were as strong as the wild-type and maintained forc...

The maximum rate of sustained energy intake (SusEI) may limit reproductive effort and other aspects of animal performance. We have previously suggested that lactating mice are not limited centrally by the alimentary tract or peripherally by the mammary glands, but that the limits to SusEI are imposed by the capacity of the animal to dissipate body heat generated as a by-product of processing fo...

Insight into the problem of two-dimensional turbulence can be obtained by an analogy with a heat conduction network. It allows the identification of an entropy function associated with the enstrophy dissipation and that fluctuates around a positive (mean) value. While the corresponding enstrophy network is highly nonlocal, the direction of the enstrophy current follows from the Second Law of Th...

It is envisioned that conventional air cooling techniques using heat sinks are not able to sufficiently cool future generations of high heat dissipation semiconductor processors. Thus, alternative cooling approaches are being extensively studied as substitutes. This paper presents a literature review of the available refrigeration systems and system simulation models for electronics cooling. Th...

According to the heat dissipation limit theory, maximum metabolic turnover is limited by the capacity of the body to dissipate excess heat. Small mammals, including common voles (Microtus arvalis), face a heat dissipation limitation during lactation. Pup growth and milk production are reduced under higher ambient temperatures. Heat dissipation problems might in part be alleviated by modifying b...

Thermal management of microelectronic devices is an ongoing technological challenge that directly affects device-level and system-level performance and reliability [1]. The fundamental process of electron transport in a transistor device results in dissipation of heat. This causes temperature rise, which in turn limits device performance. For most semiconductor devices, performance goes down wi...

Once in its non-equilibrium steady state, a nanoscale system coupled to several heat baths may be thought of as a “quantum heat pump”. Depending on the direction of its stationary heat flows, it may function as, e.g., a refrigerator or a heat transformer. These continuous heat devices can be arbitrarily complex multipartite systems, and yet, their working principle is always the same: they are ...

To provide a favorable temperature for power battery liquid cooling system, bionic blood vessel structure of the plate is designed based on knowledge bionics and human model. For three different discharge rates 1C, 2C, 3C, FLUENT used to simulate analyze heat dissipation performance with vascular structure. The influence pipe distance (A1 A2) at coolant outlet, thickness plate, inner turning ra...

In this paper, a comparison between two well-known finite time heat engine models is presented: the Carnot-like heat engine based on specific heat transfer laws between the cyclic system and the external heat baths and the Low-Dissipation model where irreversibilities are taken into account by explicit entropy generation laws. We analyze the mathematical relation between the natural variables o...

The property profile exhibited by cellular metals identifies several applications, especially in technologies requiring multifunctionality. Their specific property attributes suggest implementation as: ultralight panels/shells, energy absorbing structures and heat dissipation media as well as for vibration control. Connections between the properties that govern these performance benefits and th...