The Saharan silver ant Cataglyphis bombycina is one of the terrestrial living organisms best adapted to tolerate high temperatures. It has recently been shown that the hairs covering the ant's dorsal body part are responsible for its silvery appearance. The hairs have a triangular cross-section with two corrugated surfaces allowing a high optical reflection in the visible and near-infrared (NIR...

a micro-channel heat exchanger reactor with different micro-baffle shapes has been studied numerically. governing equations were solved base on the finite volume method with fluent software. in upper section, oxidation reaction of methanol was occurred and in lower section, steam reforming of methanol was done. two sections were separated with solid part which played as heat exchanger and trans...

in this numerical study the the heat transfer and laminar nanofluid flow in the three-dimensional microchannels with triangular cross-section is simulated. for increase the heat transfer from the walls of the channel, semiattached & offset mid- truncated rib,s placed in the canal, and the tooth geometry and the impact is studied. in this study, the water is base fluid, and the influence of the ...

We apply direct electron beam writing to fabricate corrugated sidewall Bragg gratings in polymer waveguides and demonstrate multi-channel passband filters based on a phase-shifted design. Experimental results are compared with numerical fittings to analyze the impact of signal polarization and waveguide cladding material upon device performance.

The peak strain (PS) of sheet metal highly affects the process design and quality roll formed product. Different from traditional forming technology (RFT) that all cross section contours product are rolled simultaneously, a symmetric RFT is developed with respect to corrugated channels avoid defects like tearing, twist, redundant deformations. behaviors their strains subsequently simulated fini...

The cross-sectional geometry of an embedded microchannel influences the electromechanical response of a soft microfluidic sensor to applied surface pressure. When a pressure is exerted on the surface of the sensor deforming the soft structure, the cross-sectional area of the embedded channel filled with a conductive fluid decreases, increasing the channel’s electrical resistance. This electrome...

We numerically simulate the diffusion of overdampd pointlike Janus particles along narrow two-dimensional periodically corrugated channels with reflecting walls. The self-propulsion velocity of the particle is assumed to rotate subject to an intrinsic bias modeled by a torque. Breaking the mirror symmetry of the channel with respect to its axis suffices to generate a directed particle flow with...

Abstract Solar stills utilization has received great interest in arid isolated regions. In this study, experimental approaches have been investigated to prove the impact of corrugated absorber shape on hemispherical solar still performance. Four geometric shapes including present flat, triangular, semi-circular, square forms were tested for absorber. Five distillers fabricated and tested. The f...

We propose a quantum oscillation experiment by which the rotation of an underdoped YBa(2)Cu(3)O(6+x) sample about two different axes with respect to the orientation of the magnetic field can be used to infer the shape of the in-plane cross-section of corrugated Fermi surface cylinder(s). Deep corrugations in the Fermi surface are expected to give rise to nodes in the quantum oscillation amplitu...