High-power electronics in the transportation and aerospace sectors need size and weight reduction. Multifunctional and multistructured materials are currently being developed to couple electromagnetic (EM) and thermal properties, i.e., shielding against electromagnetic impulsions, and thermal management across the thermal interface material (TIM). In this work, we investigate laser-machined pat...

data envelopment analysis (dea) and balanced scorecard (bsc) are two well-known approaches for measuring performance of decision making units (dmus). bsc is especially applied with quality measures, whereas, when the quantity measures are used to evaluate, dea is more appropriate. in the real-world, dmus usually have complex structures such as network structures. one of the well-known network s...

in this paper, the heat balance of an engine was investigated experimentally. the experimental work was conducted on the ef7 natural gas fueled and turbocharged engine. the main goal was to develop an empirical equation to be able to predict the heat balance of the engine at various loads and conditions. the data were collected at four different conditions, two different loads and two different...

Power has become the primary design constraint for systems ranging from server computers to handhelds. As semiconductor technology scales down, leakage power becomes significant. Leakage power is exponentially dependent on temperature. Therefore, future design studies call for temperature-aware power modeling and coupled power and thermal management due to the temperature dependence of leakage ...

For a solar power plant, storing energy enables utilities to generate power when and as required and not just when sun is shining. There are two popular ways to convert solar energy to electricity – solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal. In a solar PV plant sun’s energy is directly converted to electric energy using solar cells and therefore it requires a battery to store electric energy. A...