Various applications for advanced metallic materials in the area of thermal management of potential interest to the United States Air Force are discussed. Particular emphasis is given to the following technologies; passive thermal systems utilizing high thermal conductivity metallic composites; lightweight metallic phase-change materials for managing thermal transients; highefficiency thermoele...

The authors use molecular dynamics simulation to investigate the thermal transport characteristics of water with various degree of orientational and translational orders induced by the application of an electric field. The authors observe that the orientational ordering of the water dipole moments has a minor effect on the thermal conductivity. However, electric-field-induced crystallization an...

We examine the existence and stability of spatially localized "bumps" of neuronal activity in a network of spiking neurons. Bumps have been proposed in mechanisms of visual orientation tuning, the rat head direction system, and working memory. We show that a bump solution can exist in a spiking network provided the neurons fire asynchronously within the bump. We consider a parameter regime wher...

Silver sintering joints and AuGe soldering are promising technologies for high temperature (>200 C ambient) power electronics packaging. This paper presents the implementation of two silver-sintering processes with the one hand micrometer-scale silver particles, and on the other hand nano-meter-scale particles. Two substrates technologies have been investigated: A12O3 DBC and Si3N4 AMB. After t...

The overall goal of this project was to improve the reliability of thermal process validation tools for Salmonella in pork products, by accounting for stress adaptation that can occur during slow cooking processes. The specific objectives were: (1) To modify, for ground and whole-muscle pork products, a model recently developed at MSU to predict the rate of Salmonella thermal inactivation as a ...

In this paper, we investigated two originated metamorphosed harzburgites of the metaperidotite complex from the northern part of the Gishaki area. Harzburgite rocks, as main ultramafic complexes of the studied area, were exposed in the scattered location of the area. Despite intensive alterations, harzburgitic units were discriminated using petrography and Raman spectroscopy studies of relict m...

Thermal efficiency is a common benchmark used to compare competing processes when a new LNG project is being developed. Often this type of comparison can be misleading when used in isolation because plant design premises are not consistent from project to project. Thermal efficiency depends on numerous issues such as gas composition, inlet pressure and temperature, and even more obscure issues ...