Publications associées à Processus isentropique

Selection and Optimal Use of Nanoporous Materials for Adsorption Energy Technologies

Due to the large waste of heat in the power and industrial sectors, our use of energy is inefficient. Moreover, it relies on rapidly depleting and greenhouse-gas-emitting sources such as fossil fuels. While the scarcity of energy resources is a relevant so ...

EPFL2023

Fast and Durable Lithium Storage Enabled by Tuning Entropy in Wadsley-Roth Phase Titanium Niobium Oxides

Kangning Zhao, Yuehui Li, Liping Zhong, Rui Xia

Wadsley-Roth phase titanium niobium oxides have received considerable interest as anodes for lithium ion batteries. However, the volume expansion and sluggish ion/electron transport kinetics retard its application in grid scale. Here, fast and durable lith ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

A 3.3-Gb/s SPAD-Based Quantum Random Number Generator

Edoardo Charbon, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Francesco Gramuglia, Mario Stipcevic

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy source combined with an extraction or bit generation circuit in or ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Enhanced rate performance of lithium-ion battery anodes using a cobalt-incorporated carbon conductive agent

Xile Hu, Albert Claude Jean-Pierre Daubry, Ming Yang

Lithium-ion batteries with enhanced rate performance are of crucial importance for practical applications. Extensive studies on the structural design and surface modification of electrode materials with the aim of improving the rate performance have been r ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Luminescent and electronic properties of perovskite solar cells

Brian Irving Carlsen

Perovskite solar cells show great promise to serve as an alternative for traditional silicon-based solar cells, however several problems present obstacles for their commercialization. Standard perovskite cells contain lead, which is toxic to humans and har ...

EPFL2022

Spin Evolution in the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, François Reuse, Klaus Maschke

The first part of this article attempts to highlight in chronological order some prominent papers that have direct connexion with the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. This timeline successively points to the role of level crossing, the notions of gauge fiel ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Conjugate heat transfer in isolated granular clusters with interstitial fluid using lattice Boltzmann method

Mehrdad Kiani Oshtorjani

The conjugate heat transfer in mixtures of a fluid and single granular clusters is studied in this paper using a novel lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) programmed for parallel computation on the graphics processing unit (GPU). The LBM is validated for heat c ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Orb5: A global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Emmanuel Lanti, Sébastien Jolliet, Alberto Bottino, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan, Paolo Angelino, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

This paper presents the current state of the global gyrokinetic code Orb5 as an update of the previous reference (Jolliet et al., 2007). The Orb5 code solves the electromagnetic Vlasov–Maxwell system of equations using a PIC scheme and also includes collis ...

2019

Multi-objective optimization of turbo-ORC systems for waste heat recovery on passenger car engines

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Kévin Rosset, Eliott Philippe Guenat, Violette Mounier

Waste heat recovery from passenger car internal combustion engines by means of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is promising for reducing CO2 emissions. In this study, different cycle configurations capable of converting waste heat from both coolant a ...

2018

Interaction of a rotating two-phase flow with the pressure and torque stability of a reversible pump-turbine operating in condenser mode

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Pierre Leroy

The operation of a reversible pump-turbine in condenser mode requires to dewater the impeller by closing the guide vanes and injecting compressed air in the draft tube cone to reduce the friction torque on the impeller blades. A water discharge is injected ...

2019