Ground thermal energy as a clean and sustainable energy source has received significant attention lately. Several strategies and hybrid configurations have been proposed to harvest geothermal energy for air conditioning and industrial purposes. The possibility of moist soil freezing in the vicinity of borehole tubes is known to be the source of several benefits and difficulties. The high storag...

The limits to sustained energy intake (SusEI) are important because they determine the ceiling restricting all the competing physiological processes. A recent hypothesis is that SusEI is constrained by the capacity to dissipate heat. However some previous data for Swiss mice are inconsistent with this hypothesis. To examine the role of limits to heat dissipation on SusEI, the body temperature, ...

The interaction of water with polymers is important because it directly or indirectly affects various properties such as rheological and transport properties. In this study, the hydration/dissolution of a hydrophilic polymer was investigated by calorimetric techniques. Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose E5 (Methocel, HPMC E5) was used as the model polymer. A water-insoluble, hydrophobic polymer, eth...

The object of the present paper is to study temperature distribution and thermal stresses of a functionally graded thick hollow cylinder with temperature dependent material properties. All the material properties except Poisson’s ratio are assumed to be dependent on temperature. The nonlinear heat conduction with temperature dependent thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity is reduced t...

Samples of Ni3V were prepared with two microstructures: ~1! with equilibrium D022 order, and ~2! with partial disorder ~having a large D022 chemical order parameter, but without the tetragonality of the unit cell!. For both materials, we measured the difference in their heat capacities from 60 to 325 K, inelastic neutronscattering spectra at four values of Q at 11 and at 300 K, and Young’s modu...

The present study extends the Einstein model for heat capacity of solids to nanoclusters. In the case of small phases the contribution of surface energy to overall thermodynamic properties of the system is essential. On that physical background, the heat capacity depends on the size of cluster through its interface energy. Employing the same relation between Einstein temperature and the cluster...

Heat capacity curves as functions of temperature for classical atomic clusters bound by pairwise Lennard-Jones potentials were calculated for aggregate sizes 4 ≤ N ≤ 24 using Monte Carlo methods. J-walking (or jump-walking) was used to overcome convergence difficulties due to quasi-ergodicity in the solid-liquid transition region. The heat capacity curves were found to differ markedly and nonmo...

Eggs of intermittently incubating birds are periodically rewarmed by a transient pulse of heat from the parent's brood patch. Estimating the energy cost of rewarming such an egg requires knowledge of the egg's thermal capacity, typically assumed to be the product of the egg's mass and its specific heat, designated here as the gravimetric thermal capacity. When chicken eggs are transiently warme...

The separator is a critical, multi-functional component of a Li-ion cell that plays a key role in performance and safety during energy conversion and storage processes. Heat flow through the separator is important for minimizing cell temperature and avoiding thermal runaway. Despite the critical nature of thermal conduction through the separator, very little research has been reported on unders...