Laminar Flow Friction and Heat Transfer in Non- Circular Ducts and Channels Part II: Thermal Problem

A detailed review and analysis of the thermal characteristics of laminar developing and fully developed flow in non-circular ducts is presented. New models are proposed which simplify the prediction of Nusselt numbers for three fundamental flows: the combined entrance problem, the Graetz problem, and thermally fully developed flow in most non-circular duct geometries found in heat exchanger applications. By means of scaling analysis it is shown that the complete problem may be easily analyzed by combining the asymptotic results for short and long ducts. By means of a new characteristic length scale, the square root of cross-sectional area, the effect of duct shape has been reduced. The new model has an accuracy of ± 10 percent, or better, for most common duct shapes. Both singly and doubly connected ducts are considered

Influence of surface roughness and waviness upon thermal contact resistance

This work deals with the phenomenon of thermal resistance between contacting solids. Attention is directed towards contiguous solids possessing both surface roughness and waviness. When two such surfaces are brought together under load, they actually touch at isolated microcontacts, and the resulting real area is the sum of these microcontacts. Because of the waviness the microcontacts are confined to a region called the contour area which may occupy some fraction of the total available area. The non-uniform pressure distribution over the contour area results in microcontacts which vary in size and density. In the absence of an interstitial fluid and negligible radiation heat transfer, all the heat crossing the interface must flow through the microcontacts. A thermal analysis, based on size and spatial distribution, results in a thermal resistance equation which differs from previously developed theories. The equation is verified by liquid analog tests which show that the size and spatial distribution are very significant.(cont.) A surface deformation analysis considers the influence of surface roughness upon the elastic deformation of a rough hemisphere. An equation is developed which shows the extent of the contour area as a function of the surface geometry, the material properties, and the applied load. The equation is compared with existing theories and qualitatively checked against experimental results. Experimental heat transfer data were obtained to verify the thermal and deformation theories. The agreement between theory and test is quite good over a large range of surface geometry and applied loads.Sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration DS

Development and characterisation of pressed packaging solutions for high-temperature high-reliability SiC power modules

SiC is a wide bandgap semiconductor with better electrothermal properties than silicon, including higher temperature of operation, higher breakdown voltage, lower losses and the ability to switch at higher frequencies. However, the power cycling performance of SiC devices in traditional silicon packaging systems is in need of further investigation since initial studies have shown reduced reliability. These traditional packaging systems have been developed for silicon, a semiconductor with different electrothermal and thermomechanical properties from SiC, hence the stresses on the different components of the package will change. Pressure packages, a packaging alternative where the weak elements of the traditional systems like wirebonds are removed, have demonstrated enhanced reliability for silicon devices however, there has not been much investigation on the performance of SiC devices in press-pack assemblies. This will be important for high power applications where reliability is critical. In this paper, SiC Schottky diodes in pressure packages have been evaluated, including the electrothermal characterisation for different clamping forces and contact materials, the thermal impedance evaluation and initial thermal cycling studies, focusing on the use of aluminium graphite as contact material

A frog’s eye view: Foundational revelations and future promises

From the mid-19th century until the 1980's, frogs and toads provided important research models for many fundamental questions in visual neuroscience. In the present century, they have been largely neglected. Yet they are animals with highly developed vision, a complex retina built on the basic vertebrate plan, an accessible brain, and an experimentally useful behavioural repertoire. They also offer a rich diversity of species and life histories on a reasonably restricted physiological and evolutionary background. We suggest that important insights may be gained from revisiting classical questions in anurans with state-of-the-art methods. At the input to the system, this especially concerns the molecular evolution of visual pigments and photoreceptors, at the output, the relation between retinal signals, brain processing and behavioural decision-making.Peer reviewe

Theoretical and experimental study of thermal conductance of wavy surfaces semiannual status report, nov. 1964 - jun. 1965

Contact area between two wavy rough surfaces and experimental determination of contact conductanc

Numerical modeling of the thermal contact in metal forming processes

Heat flow across the interface of solid bodies in contact is an important aspect in several engineering applications. This work presents a finite element model for the analysis of thermal contact, which takes into account the effect of contact pressure and gap dimension in the heat flow across the interface between two bodies. Additionally, the frictional heat generation is also addressed, which is dictated by the contact forces predicted by the mechanical problem. The frictional contact problem and thermal problem are formulated in the frame of the finite element method. A new law is proposed to define the interfacial heat transfer coefficient (IHTC) as a function of the contact pressure and gap distance, enabling a smooth transition between two contact status (gap and contact). The staggered scheme used as coupling strategy to solve the thermomechanical problem is briefly presented. Four numerical examples are presented to validate the finite element model and highlight the importance of the proposed law on the predicted temperature.The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the project PTDC/EMS-TEC/1805/2012 and by FEDER funds through the program COMPETE Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade, under the project CENTRO-07-0224- FEDER-002001 (MT4MOBI). The second author is also grateful to the FCT for the postdoctoral grant SFRH/BPD/101334/2014. The authors would like to thank Prof. A. Andrade-Campos for helpful contributions on the development of the finite element code presented in this work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Thermal contact conductance in a vacuum

The object of this work is to develop analytically equations by which one could predict the thermal contact conductance between contiguous surfaces operating in a vacuum environment. In this work the solution to the problem is obtained by considering that any surface can be modelled as being either: 1) nominally-flat but rough, 2) a smooth surface having cylindrical waviness, 3) a smooth surface having spherical waviness, or 4) a surface having either cylindrical or spherical waviness plus roughness. Since the radiative heat transfer and the conduction through the interstitial fluid are negligible, the conduction of heat across the metal contact spots is the dominant mechanism. It is considered that the prediction of thermal contact conductance must be approached by: 1) examining the surface geometry, 2) proposing mathematical models for the solution of the heat transfer problem, 3) determining the surface parameters from deformation analysis, and 4) obtaining experimental data to substantiate the proposed models. The surface analysis is actually a critical examination of profiles of real surfaces as obtained by profilometers. From such profiles it is proposed that real surfaces can be idealized by assuming that any surface is a combination of a wavy and rough component. The thermal analysis is based upon the models proposed and the solutions for the steady-state condition are obtained for the various models and the appropriate boundary conditions. Certain surface parameters appear in the thermal contact conductance equations, which require that an analysis of the deformation of the surface under load be undertaken. The deformation analysis is separated into two regimes: 1) purely elastic and 2) purely plastic. The surface parameters are then determined as functions of the applied load for the proposed models under the restrictions of pure elastic or pure plastic deformation.Sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration DS

Spike distance function as a learning objective for spike prediction

Approaches to predicting neuronal spike responses commonly use a Poisson learning objective. This objective quantizes responses into spike counts within a fixed summation interval, typically on the order of 10 to 100 milliseconds in duration; however, neuronal responses are often time accurate down to a few milliseconds, and Poisson models struggle to precisely model them at these timescales. We propose the concept of a spike distance function that maps points in time to the temporal distance to the nearest spike. We show that neural networks can be trained to approximate spike distance functions, and we present an efficient algorithm for inferring spike trains from the outputs of these models. Using recordings of chicken and frog retinal ganglion cells responding to visual stimuli, we compare the performance of our approach to that of Poisson models trained with various summation intervals. We show that our approach outperforms the use of Poisson models at spike train inference.Comment: 27 pages, 19 figure

Religion, politics and challenges of contemporary European identity

Yovanovich, H. N. M. Religion, politics and challenges of contemporary European identity / Yovanovich H. N. M. // Научный результат. Сер. Социология и управление. - 2020. - Т.6, №3.-С. 136-152. - Doi: 10.18413/2408-9338-2020-6-3-0-9. - Refer.: p. 149-152.The modern Europe (or more precisely - the European Union) builds its ideological matrix not on the foundations of its own Christian heritage, but on the foundations of agnostic secularism and liberalism, as inaugurated by the French Revolution, which places our topic in the domain of politology of religio

Models for Gaseous Slip Flow in Circular and Noncircular Microchannels,”

ABSTRACT Slip flow in noncircular microchannels has been examined and a simple model for normalized Poiseuille number is proposed to predict the friction factor and Reynolds number product fRe for slip flow. The developed model for normalized Poiseuille number has an accuracy of 4.2 percent for all common duct shapes. As for slip flow, no solutions or graphical and tabulated data exist for most geometries, the developed simple model can be used to predict friction factor, mass flow rate, and pressure distribution of slip flow in noncircular microchannels for the practical engineering design of microchannels such as rectangular, trapezoidal, doubletrapezoidal, triangular, rhombic, hexagonal, octagonal, elliptical, semielliptical, parabolic, circular sector, circular segment, annular sector, rectangular duct with unilateral elliptical or circular end, annular, and even comparatively complex doubly-connected microducts