A team of theoretical physicists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Boston College has identified cubic boron arsenide as a material with an extraordinarily high thermal conductivity and the ...
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Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, has been named head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), effective July 23.
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Harvesting waste heat from power stations and even vehicle exhaust pipes could soon provide a valuable supply of electricity. A small team of Monash University researchers working under the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for ...
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Hayward, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/19/2013 -- Western State Design recently has had a hot water-generating system installed by a solar thermal energy developer, ergSol, at the headquarter office in Hayward CA. Highlighting another means of harnessing the ...
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Understanding the properties that control surface dissipation of heat could lead to improved power plants and electronics with high heat-transfer rates. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A team of MIT researchers has succeeded in carrying out the first systematic ...
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kripa Varanasi was recently selected to receive the 2013 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer. The award is being bestowed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ...
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Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive. Recently, a new, earlier not predicted mechanism of evaporation was discovered. Experiments and simulations performed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics of the PAS not only confirm its existence, but also indicate that it plays the crucial role in evaporation process in the nanoscale.
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A layer of graphene can reduce the working temperature in hotspots inside a processor by up to 25 percent – which can significantly extend the working life of computers and other electronics. An international ..
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In 2000, he took a position at the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. Then, in 2005, he moved to Argonne National Laboratory, joining the Gas Phase Chemical Dynamics Group. He is also currently a senior ...
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Researchers at MIT have developed an innovative approach to improving heat transfer in power plants and cooling systems. The new system could provide a 100 percent improvement in the efficiency of heat transfer over conventional systems, the ...
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