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Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drops of R1234ze(E) in a Silicon Micro-pin Fin Evaporator

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini, Chiara Falsetti

The development of newer and more efficient cooling techniques to sustain the increasing power density of high-performance computing systems is becoming one of the major challenges in the development of microelectronics. In this framework, two-phase coolin ...

Asme2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Overheating reduction of a cold formed steel-framed building using a hybrid evolutionary algorithm to optimize different PCM solutions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Cold formed steel-framed constructions have been strongly disseminated with particular emphasis on the residential sector due to their fast execution, quality control and final cost. However, this construction typology presents a weakness associated with a ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Aerothermal Investigation of a Single Row Divergent Narrow Impingement Channel by Particle Image Velocimetry and Liquid Crystal Thermography

Peter Ott, Alexandros Terzis, Bernhard Weigand, Christoforos Skourides

Integrally cast turbine airfoils with wall-integrated cooling cavities are greatly applicable in modern turbines providing enhanced heat exchange capabilities compared to conventional cooling passages. In such arrangements, narrow impingement channels can ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2016

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 1: Experimental Investigation

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

Efficient, small, state-of-the-art passive cooling two-phase systems, i.e. advanced micro-thermosyphon cooling systems, are viable solutions for high performance datacenter servers and power electronics cooling applications. The objective of this study is ...

Ieee2016

Phase Change Material Systems for High Temperature Heat Storage

Sophia Haussener, Ehsan Rezaei, Selmar Rudolf Binder, David Yann Samuel Perraudin, Alberto Ortona

Efficient, cost effective, and stable high-temperature heat storage material systems are important in applications such as high-temperature industrial processes (metal processing, cement and glass manufacturing, etc.), or electricity storage using advanced ...

2015

“Edificio Traspirante”: Sistema d’Aria Condizionata Decentro Con Facciata Solare Integrate

Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

Viene presentato un sistema d’aria condizionata adattabile, di tipo decentralizzato con tecnologia solare, che contiene normalmente un dispositivo d’aria condizionata e un nuovo modulo, progettato con una struttura a nido d’ape, contenente materiale a camb ...

2015

Time-strip visualization and thermo-hydrodynamics in a Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Giulia Spinato, Brian Paul D'Entremont

New trends in the microprocessor industry are leading not only to miniaturization and integration but also to increases in power dissipation rates which now require advanced cooling solutions to prevent thermal damage to the devices. Pulsating heat pipes ( ...

Elsevier2015

Breathing building: A decentralized façade-integrated solar air-conditioning system

Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

A decentralized adaptive solar air conditioning system is presented, which contains usual air-conditioning equipment and a new module, designed with a honeycomb structure, containing phase change material for latent thermal cold and hot energy storage. Hea ...

2014

Thermo-Hydrodynamics in a Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe

Giulia Spinato

Pulsating heat pipes (PHPs) represent a promising solution for passive on-chip, two-phase cooling of micro-electronics, providing advantages such as a simple construction and operation in any gravitational orientation. Unfortunately, the unique coupling of ...

EPFL2014

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