Almost 450 nuclear power plants are currently operating throughout the world and supplying about
17% of the world’s electricity. These plants perform safely, reliably, and have no free-release of byproducts
to the ...
Phase-change processes, such as pool and flow boiling, are
generally very effective modes of heat transfer. However, the
demands of modern thermal systems have required the
development of methods to enhance boiling ...
Concerns about the security of oil supplies and the environmental consequences of burning fossil fuels
have transformed the idea of a hydrogen (H2) economy from science fiction into a political bipartisan
vision of our ...
Increases in microprocessor power dissipation coupled with reductions in feature sizes due to
manufacturing process improvements have resulted in continuously increasing heat fluxes. The ever
increasing chip-level heat ...
The electronics industry is encountering thermal challenges
and opportunities with lengthscales comparable to or much less
than one micrometer. Examples include nanoscale phonon
hotspots in transistors and the increasing ...
The summary from Goodson’s group on their recent work
on heat transfer issues in the microelectronics and data storage
industries illustrate the critical role of heat transfer for some
areas of information technology. ...
Hard and soft matter can be distinguished by the energy of chemical bonds in comparison with
kBT. At the interface of hard and soft matter, there exists a region of transition between strong
(covalent/ionic/metallic) ...
The unique properties of nanostructures associated with
their low dimensionality give rise to new opportunities for research
on nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion. Inspired
by Majumdar’s analysis of the novel ...
During the last half of the twentieth century, significant
advances have been made in developing an understanding of
phase change heat transfer (e.g., boiling and condensation).
Further advances in phase change heat ...