[1] Disintegration of ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula over the past two decades has clearly demonstrated their high sensitivity to recent changes in the local thermal regime of the atmosphere and ocean and has given rise to the question of whether mechanical coupling with waves in the ocean may provide the triggering mechanism that starts collapse events. Motivated by these events, th...

Currently, bone mineral density (BMD) is the gold standard for in vivo assessment of frac23 ture risk of bones and is measured using X-ray absorptiometric techniques.1 However, only 24 70–80% of the variance of bone strength is accounted for by bone density. As the brittle25 ness of bone depends on more factors than bone density, biologists believe that quantitative 26 ultrasound techniques (QU...

in this paper, we study the plasmonic thermal conductance of ordered stacks of metallic nanorings in a host material. using second quantized formalism of the random phase approximation, we first determine the dispersion relations of surface plasmon waves on the stacks of nanorings. then, using landauer-buttiker formalism, we determine the coefficient of plasmonic thermal conductance and heat cu...

outdoor experiments on a once-through single glazed solar air heater with perforated metal absorber plate were conducted to determine the practical effect of absorber plate porosity as well as suction air flow rate on the collector thermal efficiency and its total pressure drop. three aluminum absorber plates were made perforated by drilling circular holes with different diameter/pitch ratios i...

This article deals with the determination of temperature distribution, displacement and thermal stresses of a rectangular plate having nonhomogeneous material properties with internal heat generation. The plate is subjected to sectional heating. All the material properties except Poisson’s ratio and density are assumed to be given by a simple power law along x direction. Solution of the two-dim...

The present article deals with the study of propagation of plane waves in isotropic generalized thermoelastic diffusion with voids under initial stress. It is found that, for two dimensional model of isotropic generalized thermoelastic diffusion with voids under initial stress, there exists four coupled waves namely, P wave, Mass Diffusion (MD) wave, thermal (T) wave and Volume Fraction (VF) wa...

The reflection and transmission of thermoelastic plane waves at an imperfect boundary of two dissimilar fibre-reinforced transversely isotropic thermoelastic solid half-spaces under hydrostatic initial stress has been investigated. The appropriate boundary conditions are applied at the interface to obtain the reflection and transmission coefficients of various reflected and transmitted waves wi...

This paper describes one-dimensional (parallel) laminar natural convection in a viscous stably stratified fluid owing to temporally periodic variations in the surface temperature of infinite vertical plates and circular cylinders. Analytical solutions of the one-dimensional (parallel) Boussinesq equations of motion and thermodynamic energy are obtained for the periodic regime for arbitrary valu...