Abstract: Americans need to know more about what solar energy can do, how its exploitation can affect our national well-being, and why it is essential that it be generously publicly funded now. We are ...

Abstract: Grahic Jump Location

Abstract: In the early design of compressors and turbines, it was of importance to locate the rotor critical speeds so as to insure that a turbo rotor would not be operating at a critical speed. As ...

Abstract: Grahic Jump Location

Abstract: An outline is given of the mechanical and thermal histories of the working substance for a generic stand-alone solar thermal solid-expansion engine. A Figure-of-merit for the selection of materials ...

Abstract: Gas hydrates (clathrates) are molecular compounds with crystalline structure, formed under certain conditions of pressure and temperature for which gas molecules occupy structural lattices formed ...

Abstract: Grahic Jump Location

Abstract: General solution for thermal spreading and system resistances of a circular source on a finite circular cylinder with uniform side and end cooling is presented. The solution is applicable for ...

Abstract: The Timoshenko beam theory includes the effects of shear deformation and rotary inertia on the vibrations of slender beams. The theory contains a shear coefficient which has been the subject ...