...Hongmei Xu; Juan Liu; Kun Wang; Songtao Kong; Yong Shi A hybrid fuzzy inference-quantum particle swarm optimization (FI-QPSO) algorithm is developed to estimate the temperature-dependent thermal properties of the grain. The fuzzy inference scheme is established to determine the contraction...

... analyzer (LFA) and then compared with calculations based on weighted averages of each component in the composite. The effects of fuel particle size, oxidizer, and initial temperature on thermal properties were studied. Nanometric Al composites are more insulative than their micron-scale counterparts...

... to the change in thermal properties of the liquid layer and is employed to match experimental data to find the thermal properties of the test liquid. The measured thermal conductivities of water and ethylene glycol agree quite well with the data from literature and support the validity of this measurement...

... phenomenal discoveries that a very small amount ( < 1 vol % ) of guest nanoparticles can provide dramatic improvements in the thermal properties of the host fluids. For example, some nanofluids exhibit superior thermal properties such as anomalously high thermal conductivity at low nanoparticle...

.... This latter result indicates that surface energy is accommodated preferentially into translational modes over internal modes for these gases. 25 01 2008 12 05 2008 25 09 2008 nanoparticles particle size photoluminescence sorption thermal properties laser-induced incandescence...

...-metal contacts can reduce the total thermal resistance below 1 m 2 K MW − 1 . 26 10 2006 17 09 2007 08 04 2008 carbon nanotubes thermal properties thermoreflectance vertically aligned carbon nanotubes thermal interface resistance thermoreflectance thermometry thermal...

... roughness design can take advantage of the surface waves to produce remarkable properties. silicon elemental semiconductors thermal properties surface plasmons emissivity 24 01 2006 21 06 2006 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

...Kevin D. Cole Methods of thermal property measurements based on steady-periodic heating are indirect techniques, in which the thermal properties are deduced from a systematic comparison between experimental data and heat-transfer theory. In this paper heat-transfer theory is presented for a variety...

... precision requires that all of the other properties be known with certainty. This paper describes a method of design and estimation based upon Fisher’s concept of information that achieves good precision in estimating thermal properties even when the other parameters are known only approximately...

... of the numerical results are developed for the TCR as a function of the interface geometry and the thermal properties. The method used to introduce these correlations in forging softwares, to account for a time and space-dependent TCR instead of a constant arbitrary value, is given. The predictive capability...

..., the phase lag associated with the thermocouples is removed and the measurements then become a function only of the thermal properties of the system. The use of thermocouples is restricted to the low-frequency regime, commensurate with the time constant...

...; revision received, June 29, 1999. Associate Technical Editor: D. Kaminski. 15 July 1998 29 June 1999 heat conduction thermal properties heat transfer Heat conduction is a nonlinear problem because thermal properties—conductivity and heat...