A method for the computation of the band structure of two-dimensional photonic crystals is presented. It is well suited for crystals including materials with arbitrary frequency-dependent dielectric constants. The technique can be applied to study photonic crystals with irregularly shaped ~noncircular! elements. This method is based on the multiple multipole method. In order to find the solutio...

Heat transfer with liquid–vapor phase change in microchannels can support very high heat fluxes for use in applications such as the thermal management of high-performance electronics. However, the effects of channel cross-sectional dimensions on the two-phase heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop have not been investigated extensively. In the present work, experiments are conducted to inv...

Dense depth maps can be estimated in a Bayesian sense from multiple calibrated still images of a rigid scene relative to a reference view [1]. This well-established probabilistic framework is extended by adaptively refining a triangular meshing procedure and by automatic cross-validation of model parameters. The adaptive refinement strategy locally adjusts the triangular meshing according to th...

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An experimental facility is developed to investigate critical heat flux (CHF) of saturated flow boiling of Refrigerant-123 (R-123) in microchannels. Six parallel Microchannels with cross sectional area of 0.2 mm × 0.2 mm are fabricated on a copper block, and a Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) cover is then placed on top of the copper block to serve as a transparent cover through which flow patterns and...

In this paper, a new measuring system is proposed which can measure the 3-dimensional position and orientation of rigid bodies. Its measurement principle is based on detection of laser beam reflected from a specially fabricated mirror that looks like a triangular pyramid having an equilateral cross-sectional shape. The mirror has three lateral reflective surfaces inclined 45° to its bottom surf...

In this study, we investigate the performance of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method regarding computation confined flows in microchannels. Modeling and numerical simulation with SPH involve representation flowing matter as distinct mass points, leading to discretization Navier–Stokes equations. The computational methodology exhibits similarities other well-established methods, such mo...

In the present paper simulation of tidal currents on three-dimensional geometry of the Persian Gulf is performed by the solution of the depth averaged hydrodynamics equations. The numerical solution was applied on two types of discritized simulation domain (Persian Gulf); with and without major islands. The hydrodynamic model utilized in this work is formed by equations of continuity and motion...