Temperature profoundly influences physiological responses in animals, primarily due to the effects on biochemical reaction rates. Since physiological responses are often exemplified by their rate dependency (e.g., rate of blood flow, rate of metabolism, rate of heat production, and rate of ion pumping), the study of temperature adaptations has a long history in comparative and evolutionary phys...

The method of superposition and separation variables is applied to gain analytical solutions to the transient heat conduction for a two dimensional cylindrical fin. The temperature distributions are generalized for a linear combination of the product of Bessel function, Fourier series and exponential type for nine different cases. The solutions presented in this study can be used to verify the ...

A one-dimensional mathematical model was developed in order to analyze and optimize the latent heat storage wall. The governing equations for energy transport were developed by using the enthalpy method and discretized with volume control scheme. The resulting algebraic equations were next solved iteratively by using TDMA algorithm. A series of numerical investigations were conducted in order t...

Neurons of the pontine tegmentum of the cat were lesioned by microinjection of ibotenic acid into the brainstem. The threshold ambient temperatures for heat-gain (shivering) and for heat-loss (panting) responses, together with brain and skin temperatures, were measured in intact animals and after the neurotoxic lesioning. After the lesioning the shivering threshold was altered but the panting t...

This study investigates the heat transfer in a simple pure fluid whose temperature is slightly above its critical temperature. We propose an efficient numerical method to predict the heat transfer in such fluids when the gravity can be neglected. The method, based on a simplified thermodynamic approach, is compared with direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes and energy equations perf...

Exponential stability analysis and L2-gain analysis are developed for uncertain distributed parameter systems. Scalar heat processes and distributed mechanical oscillators, governed by semilinear partial differential equations of parabolic and, respectively, hyperbolic types, are chosen for treatment. Sufficient exponential stability conditions with a given decay rate are derived in the form of...

Using passive methods in façade design for controlling heating and cooling needs is an important prerequisite constructing cost-effective nearly zero-energy buildings. Optimal control of solar heat gains reduces the demand size active systems. However, applying such increases impact internal on balance buildings, accordingly also dimensions Therefore, a good model needed reliable optimal sizing...

In this paper a methodology developed for the generation of transient compact models of packages and heat sinks from measured thermal transient results is described. The main advantage of generating dynamic compact models solely from measured results is the time-gain: the lengthy transient simulations, suggested by the DELPHI methodology can he omitted. After summarizing the procedure of genera...

The ability to browse an information space in a structured way by exploiting similarities and dissimilarities between information objects is crucial for knowledge discovery. Knowledge maps use visualizations to gain insights into the structure of large-scale information spaces, but are still far away from being applicable for searching. The paper proposes a use case for enhancing search term re...