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Characterization Of Solar Roadways Via Computational And Experimental Investigations, Rajesh Kanna Selvaraju
Characterization Of Solar Roadways Via Computational And Experimental Investigations, Rajesh Kanna Selvaraju
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Efficiency of traditional solar panels is known to be very low and hence necessitates the use of extensive open spaces for producing solar-based electric power. In solar roadways concept, open spaces such as roads, parking lots, bicycle lanes, footpaths are proposed to be utilized. An in-depth quantitative feasibility study for implementing solar roadways in Canada is carried out considering the total available surfaces, solar panel efficiency and effects of fast moving shades. The load carrying capability of commercially available materials for the solar panel top cover is studied in an effort to examine the current as well as near-future implementation …
Numerical Modelling Of Transport In Complex Porous Media: Metal Foams To The Human Lung, Christopher T. Degroot
Numerical Modelling Of Transport In Complex Porous Media: Metal Foams To The Human Lung, Christopher T. Degroot
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Transport in porous media has many practical applications in science and engineering. This work focuses on the development of numerical methods for analyzing porous media flows and uses two major applications, metal foams and the human lung, to demonstrate the capabilities of the methods. Both of these systems involve complex pore geometries and typically involve porous domains of complex shape. Such geometric complexities make the characterization of the relevant effective properties of the porous medium as well as the solution of the governing equations in conjugate fluid-porous domains challenging. In porous domains, there are typically too many individual pores to …
Mechanical Instability Of Thin Solid Film Structures, Masoud Noroozi
Mechanical Instability Of Thin Solid Film Structures, Masoud Noroozi
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Instability of thin film structures as buckling and wrinkling are important issues in various fields such as skin aging, mechanics of scars, metrology of the material properties of thin layers, coating of the surfaces and etc. Similar to the buckling, highly ordered patterns of wrinkles may be developed on the film‒substrate due to compressive stresses. They may cause a failure of the system as structural damage or inappropriate operation, however once they are well understood, it is possible to control and even use them properly in various systems such as the gossamer structures in the space, stretchable electronics, eyelike digital …