In gratitude to Antoine Skoulios for original and illuminating insights on complex materials, and, to celebrate the emergence of his new adventures, this article is a synopsis of astonishing observations made about a decade ago on a deceptively simple material, succinonitrile, during its crystal growth from a curved phase boundary traveling in narrow channels. For a range of pulling speeds, v, ...

A general class of design problems is examined in thermal transport systems. We mainly address inverse problems with overspecified coupled boundary conditions in one part of the boundary and unknown thermal conditions in another part of the boundary. The methods of choice for the solution of the above inverse problems are functional optimization methods using appropriately defined continuum sen...