The relation between shortening heat and sarcomere length was studied using fiber bundles from frog semitendinosus muscles as well as using whole muscles. The initial sarcomere length was varied between 2.0 and 3.66 micron. Shortening heat was estimated as the excess heat produced after a rapid isovelocity release in a 3 sec tetanus at 0 degrees C. The isometric control heat was measured in the...

The importance of thermoelastic damping as a fundamental dissipation mechanism for small-scale mechanical resonators is evaluated in light of recent efforts to design high-Q micrometerand nanometer-scale electromechanical systems. The equations of linear thermoelasticity are used to give a simple derivation for thermoelastic damping of small flexural vibrations in thin beams. It is shown that Z...

This article deals the entropy generation due to mixed convective flow of two non-miscible and electrically conducting fluids streaming through an inclined channel by considering convective boundary conditions at the walls of channel. Micropolar fluid is flowing adjacent to the upper wall of the channel and fluid flowing between the non-Newtonain fluid layer and lower plate of channel is water ...

This paper reviews the fundamentals of micropolar fluid dynamics (MFD), and proposes a numerical scheme integrating Chorin’s projection method and time-centred split method (TCSM) for solving unsteady forms of MFD equations. It has been known that Navier–Stokes equations are incapable of explaining the phenomena at micro and nano scales. On the contrary, MFD can naturally pick up the physical p...

This paper analyzes the peristaltic flow of an incompressible micropolar nanofluid in a tapered asymmetric channel in the presence of thermal radiation and heat sources parameters. The rotation of the nanoparticles is incorporated in the flow model. The equations governing the nanofluid flow are modeled and exact solutions are managed under long wavelength and flow Reynolds number and long wave...

Zhihao Tang, GangWang, and Haiwa Guan 1 Department of Fundamentals, Henan Polytechnic Institute, Nanyang, Henan 473009, China 2 Shandong Transport Vocational College, Weifang, Shandong 261206, China 3Department of Public Teaching, Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China Correspondence should be addressed to Haiwa Guan; [email protected] Received...

This work discusses the asymptotic behavior of a transmission problem on star-shaped networks of interconnected elastic and thermoelastic rods. Elastic rods are undamped, of conservative nature, while the thermoelastic ones are damped by thermal effects. We analyze the overall decay rate depending of the number of purely elastic components entering on the system and the irrationality properties...

In this paper, a novel domain-independent nonlinear thermoelastic model suitable for aerothermoelastic investigations is generated with which a continuous power transformation frame between the elastic and thermal domains is formed. To achieve this, first, a distinctive power distribution of each domain is defined by means of the Bond graph notation, and the corresponding governing equation for...

The asymptotic expansion technique is used to obtain the two-dimensional dynamic equations of thin micropolar elastic plates from the three-dimensional dynamic equations of micropolar elasticity theory. To this end, all the ®eld variables are scaled via an appropriate thickness parameter such that it re ̄ects the expected behavior of the plate. A formal power series expansion of the three-dimens...

This paper reports an investigation of the fully developed natural convection heat and mass transfer of a micropolar fluid in a vertical channel. Asymmetric temperature and concentration boundary conditions are applied to the walls of the channel. The cases of double diffusion and Soret-induced convection are both considered. The governing parameters for the problem are the buoyancy ratio and t...