Abstract: In the near future, electronic cabinets of data centers will house high performance chips with heat fluxes approaching 100 W/cm2 and associated high volumetric heat generation rates. With the ...

Abstract: Many different additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enable the realization of prototypes and fully-functional artifacts. Although very different in solution principle and embodiment, significant ...

Abstract: The intent in robust design is to improve the quality of products and processes by reducing their sensitivity to variations, thereby reducing the effects of variability without removing its ...

Abstract: A paradigm shift is underway in which the classical materials selection approach in engineering design is being replaced by the design of material structure and processing paths on a hierarchy ...

Abstract: Design-processes for multiscale, multifunctional systems are inherently complex due to the interactions between scales, functional requirements, and the resulting design decisions. While complex ...

Abstract: Geographically distributed engineers must collaboratively develop, build and test solutions to design-manufacture problems to be competitive in the global marketplace. Engineers operate in a distributed ...

Abstract: The complex turbulent flow regimes encountered in many thermal-fluid engineering applications have proven resistant to the effective application of systematic design because of the computational ...

Abstract: Prismatic cellular or honeycomb materials exhibit favorable properties for multifunctional applications such as ultralight load bearing combined with active cooling. Since these properties are ...

Abstract: Synthesis of hierarchical materials and products is an emerging systems design paradigm, which includes multiscale (quantum to continuum level) material simulation and product analysis models, ...

Abstract: Designers are continuously challenged by complexity, as well as by the excessive instantiation and execution times of models, particularly in the context of integrated product and materials design. ...