Critical heat flux (CHF) was measured for a water-cooled micro-channel heat sink containing 21 parallel 215· 821 lm channels. Tests were performed with deionized water over a mass velocity range of 86–368 kg/ms, inlet temperatures of 30 and 60 C, at an outlet pressure of 1.13 bar. As CHF was approached, flow instabilities induced vapor backflow into the heat sink’s upstream plenum, which signif...

Random Edge is the most natural randomized pivot rule for the simplex algorithm. Considerable progress has been made recently towards fully understanding its behavior. Back in 2001, Welzl introduced the concepts of reachmaps and niceness of Unique Sink Orientations (USO), in an effort to better understand the behavior of Random Edge. In this paper, we initiate the systematic study of these conc...

In this paper we undertake a large crossdomain investigation of sentiment domain adaptation, challenging the practical necessity of sentiment domain adaptation algorithms. We first show that across a wide set of domains, a simple “all-in-one” classifier that utilizes all available training data from all but the target domain tends to outperform published domain adaptation methods. A very simple...

Radiation effects on free convection MHD Couette flow of a viscous incompressible heat generating fluid confined between vertical plates have been studied. The governing equations are solved analytically using the Laplace transform technique. The variations of velocity and fluid temperature are presented graphically. It is observed that the velocity decreases with an increase in either magnetic...

Unique-sink orientations (USOs) are an abstract class of orientations of the ncube graph. We consider some classes of USOs that are of interest in connection with the linear complementarity problem. We summarise old and show new lower and upper bounds on the sizes of some such classes. Furthermore, we provide a characterisation of K-matrices in terms of their corresponding USOs.

Enhancement of forced convective heat transport through the use of evaporating mist flow is investigated analytically and by numerical simulation. A two-phase mist, consisting of finely dispersed water droplets in an airstream, is introduced at the inlet of a longitudinally-finned heat sink. The latent heat absorbed by the evaporating droplets significantly reduces the sensible heating of the a...

The excellent heat removal capability of pressurized superfluid helium, HeIIplVg, has led in recent years to its use as a coolant in fusionlo and acceleratorll magnets where the operating temperature is typically in the range of 1.8 to 2. K. More recently, He-IIp has been proposed as the coolant for a polarized proton target at temperatures as low as 0.5K12. In all cases the HeIIp acts as an ai...

Accurate treatment planning is necessary for the successful application of hyperthermia in the clinic. The validity of four different bioheat models or combinations of models is evaluated: the conventional bioheat transfer equation, the limited effective conductivity model, a mixed heat sink-effective conductivity model and a discrete vessel model. The heat balance for the heated volume, and es...

This paper reports the first integration of laser-etched polycrystalline diamond microchannels with template-fabricated microporous copper for extreme convective boiling in a composite heat sink for power electronics and energy conversion. Diamond offers the highest thermal conductivity near room temperature, and enables aggressive heat spreading along triangular channel walls with 1:1 aspect r...

The inverse modeling of heat transfer involves the estimation of boundary conditions from the knowledge of thermal history inside a heat conducting body. Inverse analysis is extremely useful in modeling of contact heat transfer at interfaces of engineering surfaces during materials processing. In the present work, the one-dimensional transient heat conduction equation was inversely modeled in b...