Abstract: The problem of therporacoustic (thermal-porous-acoustic) convection near a porous medium, representative of a stack in a thermoacoustic engine/refrigerator, is modeled and analyzed in this paper. ...

Abstract: The authors regret that the following typos occurred in the above article: In the abstract, the word “therporacoustic” should be “therporaoustic.”On p. 3, three lines above Sec. 2.2, the word ...

Abstract: Natural convection through a porous layer heated from the side with internal flow obstructions have been investigated based on visualization of total energy flow via energy streamfunctions or energy streamlines. Energy ...

Abstract: Flow, thermal, energy, and irreversibility characteristics inside wavy enclosures packed with microstructures are reported in this paper. It is assumed that the entire enclosure has sufficient and ...

Abstract: Traffic loading for pavement deterioration should be modeled as a dynamic indicator based on trip distribution derived from spatial economics. The estimation of modal distribution of trips and land development has been the ...

Abstract: In this paper, the effects of uncertainties in physical properties on predicting entropy generation for a steady laminar flow of Al2 O3 –ethylene glycol nanofluid (0≤φ≤6 %) between two concentric ...

Abstract: Entropy generation is squarely linked with irreversibility, and consequently with exergy destruction within a thermal system. This study concerns with the temperature distribution, and local and volumetric averaged entropy ...

Abstract: This paper presents an optimization approach to the design of simply supported, post-tensioned, prestressed concrete I-girder bridges. The objective is to minimize the total cost of the structure, considering cost of ...

Abstract: In this paper, we have designed and constructed a low cost solarthermoelectric (TE) airconditioning system for people in remote areas where electricity is still in short supply. Such system can be potentially used to ...