...Heng Pan; Seung H. Ko; Costas P. Grigoropoulos Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were employed to investigate the mechanism and kinetics of the solid-state sintering of two crystalline gold nanoparticles ( 4.4 – 10.0 nm ) induced by low energy laser heating. At low temperature ( 300 K...

... facility and focus on the effects of the capillary wick thickness. In Part II we examine the effects of variations in the volumetric porosity and the mesh size as well as presenting detailed discussions of the evaporation/boiling phenomena from thin capillary wicking structures. An optimal sintering...

...R. M. Tarafdar; T. L. Bergman Simulations and experiments are performed to investigate the coupled thermal and morphological response of polymer material during non-isothermal sintering. The experimental results are utilized to validate a numerical model that describes the response of the system...

... will be published in a later issue. heat transfer channel flow thermal conductivity temperature distribution flow through porous media sintering Our purpose in this discussion is to demonstrate that some of the results stated in Hwang and Chao’s paper appear to be in error. We can show...

... were compared with experimental results obtained with nickel braze and AISI 1018 steel powder. The effects of laser properties and the scanning velocity on the laser sintering process were also investigated. An empirical correlation that can be used to predict the cross-sectional area of the heat...