In this work, the temperature effects due to Joule heating obtained by application of a direct current electric potential were investigated for a microchannel with cylindrical insulating posts employed for insulator-based dielectrophoresis. The conductivity of the suspending medium, the local electric field, and the gradient of the squared electric field, which directly affect the magnitude of ...

Recent advancements in nanotechnology have originated the new emerging heat transfer fluids called nanofluids. Nanofluids are prepared by dispersing and stably suspending nanometer sized solid particles in conventional heat transfer fluids. Past researches have shown that a very small amount of suspending nanoparticles have the potential to enhance the thermo physical, transport and radiative p...

This paper presents a performance comparison of three multiprocessor real-time locking protocols: the multiprocessor priority ceiling protocol (M-PCP), the distributed priority ceiling protocol (D-PCP), and the flexible multiprocessor locking protocol (FMLP). In the FMLP, blocking is implemented via either suspending or spinning, while in the M-PCP and D-PCP, all blocking is by suspending. The ...

Grid applications need to be fault tolerant, malleable, and migratable. In previous work, we have presented orphan saving, an efficient mechanism addressing these issues for divide-and-conquer applications. In this paper, we present a mechanism for writing partial results to checkpoint files, adding the capability to also tolerate the total loss of all processors, and to allow suspending and la...