Heat sinks are used in industrial equipment to dissipate the excess heat from their heat-generating parts to the ambient. In the last few years, efforts on manufacturing electronic or mechanical devices with less weight, space, and lower cost were spent. Heat dissipation from the heat sink is stalling a big problem which many researchers are trying to solve. The aim of this study is to brief th...

Metal nanostructures show great applications in chemical sensing, biomedical detection, optical-thermal therapy, and optical communications because of their electromagnetic field enhancement properties at the visible and the near-field infrared wavelengths. Such strong optical field enhancement induced by the localized surface plasmon resonance is dependent on the configurations and the sizes o...

A nonlinear mean square estimation algorithm for cross-sensor image fusion and spectral anomaly detection is described. The algorithm can be used to enhance a low resolution image with a higher resolution coregistered multispectral image, and to detect anomalies between spectral bands (features in one spectral band that do not occur in other bands). Experimental results for Landsat data are pre...

Enhancing thermal conductivity of simple fluids is of major interest in numerous applicative systems. One possibility of enhancing thermal properties consists of dispersing small conductive particles inside. However, in general, aggregation effects occur and then one must address systems composed of dispersed clusters composed of particles as well as the ones related to percolated networks. Thi...

Nonlinear thermal response enables flexible heat manipulation and management with artificial structures. In particular, intrinsic temperature-dependent parameters of constitutive materials guide the design self-adaptive metamaterials. However, geometrical effect in nonlinear composites has not been adequately studied, which may limit potential multiple functionalities versatile control. Here, u...