To study the effect of twin boundaries on thermal transmission, thermal conductivities of twinned diamond with different twin thicknesses have been studied by NEMD simulation. Results indicate that twin boundaries show a weak phonon scattering effect on thermal transmission, which is only caused by the additional twin boundaries' thermal resistance. Moreover, according to phonon kinetic theory,...

As part of sustainable architecture principles and practices, designers need to define building's architectural requirements based on climatic conditions, environmental preservation and reduction in energy consumption. The natural energy sources such as solar radiation affect thermal and lighting performances of buildings depending on its facade characteristics. Traditionally, buildings thermal...

In this paper, we investigate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the palm-sized multi-antenna communication systems. The presented analysis includes the mutual coupling on both, signal and thermal noise. We apply the Nyquist’s thermal noise theorem to determine the thermal noise behavior in the multi-antenna system and to confirm the partial correlation of thermal noise for antenna spacing lowe...

This paper presents the dynamic simulation model to characterize water pumping and heating installation using PV/Thermal panel (PV/T) is developed. The model consists of a set of mathematical equations governing the main components of the system; namely: transparent cover, solar cell, absorber plate and operating fluid. The model is based on the analysis of the energy balance which includes the...

Real-time monitoring of the data of the thermal power plant is the basis of accurate analyzing thermal economy and accurate reconstruction of the operating state. Due to noise is inevitable, we need real-time monitoring data filtering to get accurate information of units and equipment in the operating data of thermal power plant. Real-time filtering algorithm can’t be used to correct the curren...

Overstress Tong Li Ching-Han Tsai Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Coordinated Science Laboratory Coordinated Science Laboratory Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract Accurate simulation of transient device thermal behavior is essential to predict CMOS VLSI circuit failures under electrical...

Recently, thermal treatment has been used for collagen tightening and tissue contour enhancement. It is important to monitor the condition of collagenous tissue during and immediately after thermal treatment. When collagen is denatured, birefringence is reduced and a change in polarization state occurs. In this study, Monte Carlo simulation for polarized light was used to calculate the degree o...

This paper discusses the problem of thermal coupling in many-core processors manufactured in nonplanar FinFET technologies. Our work focuses on two research goals. Firstly, the results obtained from the thermal simulations allow the investigation of mutual thermal influence between neighboring cores in such processors, what can be used to develop thermal models of such architectures. Secondly, ...

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