Concept

Thermal energy

Related publications (81)

Hydrodynamic and subdiffusive motion of tracers in a viscoelastic medium

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva

We investigate the diffusive motion of micron-sized spherical tracers in a viscoelastic actin filament network over the time span of 8 orders of magnitude using optical-tweezers single-particle tracking. The hydrodynamic interactions of a tracer with the s ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Temperature effect on connective tissue cells

Philippe Abdel Sayed, Salim Elias Darwiche

Intervertebral discs (IVD) are soft tissues that have viscoelastic behavior. Under cyclic loading, viscoelastic tissues dissipate the mechanical loading through the production of heat. In IVD, it is hypothesized that heat cannot be convected from the nucle ...

2012

Large-scale dynamic models of metabolic networks

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Keng Cher Soh, Anirikh Chakrabarti

The development and application of methods quantifying the metabolic fluxes such as Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) has been one of the driving forces behind the successful growth of metabolic engineering. However, applications of FBA have been limited by the ...

2012

Evidence for a new path to the self-sustainment of the thermonuclear fusion in magnetically confined burning plasma experiments

Duccio Testa, Mattia Albergante

In this work we provide the first explanation for observations made in 1997 on the Joint European Torus of unexpected ion heating with fusion-born alpha particles occurring over time scales much shorter than those theoretically foreseen. We demonstrate tha ...

2012

Room temperature ionic liquids based on cationic porphyrin derivatives and tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate anion

Hubert Girault, Peiyu Ge

A series of 11 low melting ionic liquids based on meso-substituted A(3)B-porphyrins and A(2)B(2)-porphyrins containing one or two pyridyl substituents have been synthesized in high yields. Three of them are liquids at room temperature. All these porphyrini ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Encapsulation of Pyrene-Functionalized Poly(benzyl ether) Dendrons into a Water-Soluble Organometallic Cage

Olivier Pierre Zava

Two generations of lipophilic pyrenyl functionalized poly(benzyl ether) dendrimers (P-1 and P-2) have been synthesized. The thermal properties of the two functionalized dendrimers have been investigated, and the pyrenyl group of the dendritic molecules enc ...

2011

Evidence from thermodynamic measurements for a singlet crystal-field ground state in pyrochlore Tb2Sn2O7 and Tb2Ti2O7

George Cristian Vaju

The magnetic entropy variation for the ordered spin-ice Tb2Sn2O7 and the spin-liquid Tb2Ti2O7 measured up to similar to 20 K shows that the crystal-field ground state for both systems is a singlet split from the first excited level by a thermal energy of s ...

2010

Thermodynamics and Energy Systems Analysis; From Energy to Exergy

Daniel Favrat, Lucien Borel

The present book is the result of more than half a century of teaching and research in thermodynamics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne), known as the EPFL, in Switzerland. Its objective is to facilitate ...

Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes PPUR2010

Looping probabilities of elastic chains: A path integral approach

John Maddocks, Ludovica Cotta-Ramusino

We consider an elastic chain at thermodynamic equilibrium with a heat bath, and derive an approximation to the probability density function, or pdf, governing the relative location and orientation of the two ends of the chain. Our motivation is to exploit ...

2010

Thermomechanical characterisation of asphalt pavements in laboratory conditions

André-Gilles Dumont, Adrien Houel

Due to the viscoelastic properties of bituminous concrete, temperature changes result in significant mechanical effects. This paper proposes a method to assess, first, the intrinsic thermophysical parameters (thermal conductivity and heat capacity) of a bi ...

2010

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.