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Investigation Of Side Wall Effects On An Inward Scramjet Inlet At Mach Number 8.6, Tiago Cavalcanti Rolim
Investigation Of Side Wall Effects On An Inward Scramjet Inlet At Mach Number 8.6, Tiago Cavalcanti Rolim
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Experimental and computational studies were conducted to evaluate the performance of a scramjet inlet as the side cowl length is changed. A slender inward turning inlet with a total length of 304.8 mm, a span of 50.8 mm with a top and a bottom compression ramp each at 11.54 deg and a compression ratio of 4.79 was used. The side cowl lengths were of 0, 50.8 and 76.2 mm. The UTA Hypersonic Shock Tunnel facility was used in the reflected mode to test the inlet model. The model was instrumented with nine piezoelectric pressure transducers, for static and total pressure …
Integrated Modeling Approach For Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Based Power Generating System, Jeongpill Ki
Integrated Modeling Approach For Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Based Power Generating System, Jeongpill Ki
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Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems have been recognized as the most advanced power generation system with the highest thermal efficiency with a compatibility with a wide variety of hydrocarbon fuels, synthetic gas from coal, hydrogen, etc. As a result of research focused on numerical studies for a tubular type- or a planar type-SOFC, fuel flexibility, design aspects of SOFC, materials, start-up process, and so on, SOFC technologies are remarkably being developed.Currently, most research activities are limited to a component level characterization of single fuel cell stack or material research for catalyst, electrolyte, sealing process, etc. In other words, approaches …
Development Of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Cfd) Based Erosion Models For Oil And Gas Industry Applications, Deval Pandya
Development Of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Cfd) Based Erosion Models For Oil And Gas Industry Applications, Deval Pandya
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Erosion prediction plays a critical role in different oil and gas industry segments including drill bit manufacturing, measurement & logging while drilling (M&LWD), and reservoir engineering/completions tools. Recently, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used to predict erosion due to multiphase flows in complex geometries. Currently used CFD-based erosion models are able to predict erosion regions fairly accurately in various applications but they are highly inaccurate when it comes topredictions of quantities like erosion rate. Predicted quantities within an order of magnitude of the measured values are common and may be considered acceptable for many applications in the industry simply because …
Advanced Materials Characterization Based On Full Field Deformation Measurements, A Paige Carpentier
Advanced Materials Characterization Based On Full Field Deformation Measurements, A Paige Carpentier
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Accurate stress-strain constitutive properties are essential for understanding the complex deformation and failure mechanisms for materials with highly anisotropic mechanical properties. Among such materials, glass-fiber- and carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composites play a critical role in advanced structural designs. The large number of different methods and specimen types currently required to generate three-dimensional allowables for structural design slows down the material characterization. Also, some of the material constitutive properties are never measured due to the prohibitive cost of the specimens needed. This work shows that simple short-beam shear (SBS) specimens are well-suited for measurement of multiple constitutive properties for composite materials and …
Study Of The Capabilities Of Electrowetting On Dielectric Digital Microfluidics (Ewod Dmf) Towards The High Efficient Thin-Film Evaporative Cooling Platform, Jagath B. Yaddessalage
Study Of The Capabilities Of Electrowetting On Dielectric Digital Microfluidics (Ewod Dmf) Towards The High Efficient Thin-Film Evaporative Cooling Platform, Jagath B. Yaddessalage
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With the current technological advancement, the size of the electronic components is being reduced to smaller and compact sizes. In the meantime, the packaging density and power consumption is ever increasing. To tackle this challenge, an efficient cooling technology is required.Thin-film evaporation is a very efficient cooling technology. A practical application using thin-film evaporation is a spray cooling which is known as the cooling method that can handle very high heat flux. However, a random spray of coolant cannot guarantee a thin coolant film, therefore either local dry-out or flooding may occur, which hampers cooling efficiency significantly. Moreover, bulky spraying …
Airdata Sensor Based Position Estimation And Fault Diagnosis In Aerial Refueling, Hakki Erhan Sevil
Airdata Sensor Based Position Estimation And Fault Diagnosis In Aerial Refueling, Hakki Erhan Sevil
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Aerial refueling is the process of transferring fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) during flight. In aerial refueling operations, the receiver aircraft is exposed to nonuniform wind field induced by tanker aircraft, and this nonuniform wind field leads to differences in readings of airdata sensors placed at different locations on the receiver aircraft. There are advantages and disadvantages of this phenomenon. As an advantage, it is used as a mechanism to estimate relative position of the receiver aircraft inside the nonuniform wind field behind the tanker. Using the difference in the measurements from multiple identical sensors, …
A Semi-Analytical Approach To Obtain Physical Fields In Heterogeneous Materials, Thanuuj S. Pathapallli
A Semi-Analytical Approach To Obtain Physical Fields In Heterogeneous Materials, Thanuuj S. Pathapallli
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Predicting the macroscopic response of heterogeneous materials has been the subject of extensive research in the engineering community, even more so, in the composites guild. With analytical solutions being almost impossible to obtain for such open ended problems, and numerical techniques being computationally expensive, semi-analytical methods are highly sought after. This dissertation is one such effort aimed at presenting a semi-analytical approach that serves as a confluence of effective analytical and numerical techniques, to solve for engineering fields in a heterogeneous material characterized by inclusions embedded in a matrix medium. The approach essentially involves the analytical derivation of permissible functions, …
Design, Fabrication And Test Of Surface Tension-Driven Microboats And Thermally Oscillatory Bubble-Propelled Microsubmarines, Lei Qiao
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In this work, we develop microboats and microsubmarines, which are capable of moving on and under water, respectively. The microboat is propelled due to the difference between surface tensions around stern and bow. This difference is generated by releasing a liquid with lower surface tension than water from the stern. We explore both horizontal and vertical motions of the microboats through a combination of experimental and theoretical investigations. It has a length of 8 mm and weight of 20 mg with the highest speed of 25 cm/s and travel distance of 85 cm. Moreover, we design, fabricate and test microboats …
Passive Wireless Antenna Sensors For Crack Detection And Shear/Compression Sensing, Irshad Mohammad
Passive Wireless Antenna Sensors For Crack Detection And Shear/Compression Sensing, Irshad Mohammad
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Despite the fact that engineering components and structures are carefully designed against fatigue failures, 50 to 90% of mechanical failures are due to fatigue crack formation. The severity of the failure depends on both the crack length and its orientation with respect to the loading direction. Many types of sensors are available that can detect fatigue crack propagation. But, crack orientation detection has been rarely reported in the literature. We evaluated a patch antenna sensor capable of detecting crack propagation as well as crack orientation changes. The aim of the sensors would be to evaluate the real-time health condition of …
Graph Theoretic Framework Based Cooperative Control And Estimation Of Multiple Uavs For Target Tracking, Mousumi Ahmed
Graph Theoretic Framework Based Cooperative Control And Estimation Of Multiple Uavs For Target Tracking, Mousumi Ahmed
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Designing the control technique for nonlinear dynamic systems is a significant challenge. Approaches to designing a nonlinear controller are studied and an extensive study on backstepping based technique is performed in this research with the purpose of tracking a moving target autonomously. Our main motivation is to explore the controller for cooperative and coordinating unmanned vehicles in a target tracking application.To start with, a general theoretical framework for target tracking is studied and a controller in three dimensional environment for a single UAV is designed. This research is primarily focused on finding a generalized method which can be applied to …
Lumped Parameter Modeling Of Fluid Line Dynamics With Turbulent Flow Conditions, Yi-Wei Huang
Lumped Parameter Modeling Of Fluid Line Dynamics With Turbulent Flow Conditions, Yi-Wei Huang
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A procedure for obtaining rational polynomial transfer functions representing ordinary differential equations for time domain transient response simulations of systems with fluid transmission lines with incompressible turbulent flow is formulated and presented. The method is based on the use of an inverse frequency least squares algorithm applied to the distributed parameter model for laminar flow with added lumped resistance to match the additional resistance associated with turbulence. Guidelines for using the algorithm are included with focus on the use of weighting parameters, the number of resonant modes to be included, and the bandwidth of the pressure/flow pulsation dynamics in the …
Experimental And Numerical Investigation Of Mass Transfer In Microreactors, Wei-Tsen Han
Experimental And Numerical Investigation Of Mass Transfer In Microreactors, Wei-Tsen Han
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In this work, two types of microreactors for reactions have been studied, which were involving multiple fluid phases: liquid-liquid (immiscible liquids) phase and gas-liquid phase. Investigation of mass transfer within reacting flows in microreactors has been carried out in these two multiphase systems. For the liquid-liquid phase, a microfluidic system was designed and fabricated to generate a slug flow pattern of immiscible liquids. This system was used to demonstrate the effect of the flow pattern on mass transfer and the effect on chemical reaction rate for a simple acid-base reaction. The reaction progression was tracked by measuring the pH along …
New Detonation Concepts For Propulsion And Power Generation, Eric Braun
New Detonation Concepts For Propulsion And Power Generation, Eric Braun
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A series of related analytical and experimental studies are focused on utilizing detonations for emerging propulsion and power generation devices. An understanding of the physical and thermodynamic processes for this unsteady thermodynamic cycle has taken over 100 years to develop. An overview of the thermodynamic processes and development history is provided.Thermodynamic cycle analysis of detonation-based systems has often been studied using surrogate models. A real gas model is used for a thermal efficiency prediction of a detonation wave based on the work and heat specified by process path diagrams and a control volume analysis. A combined first and second law …
Investigation Of Instabilities Affecting Detonations: Improving The Resolution Using Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Prashaanth Ravindran
Investigation Of Instabilities Affecting Detonations: Improving The Resolution Using Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Prashaanth Ravindran
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The unstable nature of detonation waves is a result of the critical relationship between the hydrodynamic shock and the chemical reactions sustaining the shock. A perturbative analysis of the critical point is quite challenging due to the multiple spatio-temporal scales involved along with the non-linear nature of the shock-reaction mechanism. The author's research attempts to provide detailed resolution of the instabilities at the shock front. Another key aspect of the present research is to develop an understanding of the causality between the non-linear dynamics of the front and the eventual breakdown of the sub-structures. An accurate numerical simulation of detonation …
Preliminary Design Of A Pressurization System For Small Bipropellant Rocket Engines, Steven Stanley
Preliminary Design Of A Pressurization System For Small Bipropellant Rocket Engines, Steven Stanley
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A study was conducted on the feasibility of developing a device or system that would improve the performance of small, bipropellant rockets through pressurization of the propellants. Due to the limitations in the space industry, namely high development costs and resistance to change, the new approach needed to be as simple and robust as possible. After reviewing several different potential methodologies, a concept was developed from first principles based on small gas turbine engine fuel injection approaches. The concept is simple and has heritage in the field of gas turbine engines, but it is new for the field of rocket …
Analysis Of Pulse Detonation Turbojet Engines, Ronnachai Vutthivithayarak
Analysis Of Pulse Detonation Turbojet Engines, Ronnachai Vutthivithayarak
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Research over the last two decades has shown the potential advantages of pulse detonation engines (PDEs) over existing aero-engines in terms of improved thermodynamics efficiency, improved thrust performance, simplicity of design, and exibility to operate over a wide speed range. The inherently unsteady characteristic of PDEs makes it difficulty to analyze and evaluate their performance. The conventional method that relies on steady-state assumptions cannot be directly applied. PDE studies have to employ unsteady gasdynamics behavior. In this study, the thermodynamic cycle of a PDE, which can be called the ZND cycle, is theoretically analyzed. A parametric analysis of turbojet PDEs …
Experimental And Numerical Investigation Of Transesterification Of Vegetable Oil With A Continuous Flow Capillary Reactor, Rachaneewan Charoenwat
Experimental And Numerical Investigation Of Transesterification Of Vegetable Oil With A Continuous Flow Capillary Reactor, Rachaneewan Charoenwat
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Biodiesel, Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME), is a renewable fuel that is a promising alternative to fossil fuels in the future. Biodiesel not only has similar properties to diesel derived from fossil fuel, but it also provides more environmentally friendly due to lower carbon monoxide and sulfur emissions. Biodiesel is composed of methyl esters which can be synthesized from various fatty acid sources with a present of catalyst. Typical feed-stocks include vegetable oils, such as waste cooking oil, animal fats, and even oil from algae. Four primary ways to use vegetable oil as a fuel are direct use, blending with …
Modeling And Control Of Automatic Transmission With Planetary Gears For Shift Quality, Patinya Samanuhut
Modeling And Control Of Automatic Transmission With Planetary Gears For Shift Quality, Patinya Samanuhut
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Automatic transmission is a major component in a vehicle that transmits the power source from the engine to the drive wheels of the vehicle. To improve fuel economy, reduce emission and enhance driving performance, many researchers have made tremendous efforts on new technologies for automatic transmission with planetary gear sets. Among these new technologies, system dynamics and control methodologies are extremely important tools to realizing the fuel economy, emission and driving performance. This research effort focuses on the modeling and control of an automatic transmission with planetary gear sets. A Lagrange-based method is developed to derive the equations of motion …
A One Dimensional Dry Friction Microconveyor Platform: Modelling And Analysis Of Micropart Motion Due To Surface Excitation, Moshin Rizwan
A One Dimensional Dry Friction Microconveyor Platform: Modelling And Analysis Of Micropart Motion Due To Surface Excitation, Moshin Rizwan
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Many approaches are used for micropart manipulation ranging from individual pick and place to manipulation through a workcell comprising of arrays of actuators. Existing approaches provide discrete actuation and have limitations on the lower bound on the size of the micropart to be handled. In this research, the active surface concept for non-contact micropart manipulation is investigated. The active surface deformation is generated by a set of controlled microactuators and provides for continuous micromanipulation while alleviating limitations of existing approaches. The drastic increase of surface area to volume ratio from macroscale to microscale requires the consideration of surface forces (such …
Estimation Of Aircraft States And Wind Exposure In Aerial Refueling, Je Hyeon Lee
Estimation Of Aircraft States And Wind Exposure In Aerial Refueling, Je Hyeon Lee
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When a tanker and receiver aircraft fly in tight formation in an aerial refueling operation, they are exposed to various sources of wind with varying magnitude and direction. The tanker and the receiver aircraft experience prevailing wind and turbulence. The receiver aircraft is also subject to an additional wind field induced by the wake of the tanker.The receiver aircraft is required to fly in a precise trajectory relative to the tanker. Especially, the receiver aircraft should stay at a position with small tolerances for the fuel transfer operation while the tanker aircraft flies straight level and makes constant altitude turns. …
Fabrication Of Micropatterns On 3d Surfaces And Generation Of Linked Zno Nanowires, Hui Wang
Fabrication Of Micropatterns On 3d Surfaces And Generation Of Linked Zno Nanowires, Hui Wang
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Conventional lithographic approaches are good at fabricating structures on the top surfaces of substrates. They are not suited for 3D surface patterning due to the fact that vertical radiation exposure is employed to transfer patterns. In the meanwhile, patterns generated on 3D surfaces, such as the vertical sidewalls of silicon channels and the irregular surfaces of glass micropipettes may provide valuable applications in microfluidics, 3D circuits, bioengineering and so on. In this work, we developed new approaches to produce metal micropatterns on the vertical sidewalls of silicon channels as well as to fabricate two separated metal microlines on the tips …
Development Of An Experimental And Analytical Model Of An Active Cooling Method For High-Power Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuit (3d-Ic) Utilizing A Multidimensional Configured Thermoelectric Modules, Huy Phan
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An increase in demand for more functionality and capacity of microelectronic components within the same logistic footprint drives the growth of three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D-IC) packaging technologies in recent years. However, the reduction in size and an increase in transistors density also intensified the heat flux of stacked-dice, which introduces many thermal challenges at both the package and cooling levels. Traditional passive cooling system such as forced air convection cooling, phase change materials and passive or active heat sinks will become inadequate to cool future processors and cannot accommodate the demand of future sub-ambient cooling of 3D-ICs. Within the past …
Hybrid Dynamic Simulation For Performance Optimization Of Legged Mechanisms, Daniel Montrallo Flickinger
Hybrid Dynamic Simulation For Performance Optimization Of Legged Mechanisms, Daniel Montrallo Flickinger
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Agile locomotion is needed for mobile robots to efficiently navigate challenging terrain. The ability of an agile legged mobile robot to abruptly change trajectory allows it toquickly react to obstacles and successfully operate in environments usually more suited forlegged animals. The research presented herein aims to increase the agility and performanceof legged robots.Using hybrid dynamic simulation, novel methods are developed to model the inter-action of a legged robot with the ground. In considering robot agility, an accurate model ofthe events that occur while in contact is needed. Methods are developed to model groundinteraction where oblique angled impacts occur, and to …
Aircraft Conceptual Design - An Adaptable Parametric Sizing Methodology, Gary John Coleman
Aircraft Conceptual Design - An Adaptable Parametric Sizing Methodology, Gary John Coleman
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Aerospace is a maturing industry with successful and refined baselines which work well for traditional baseline missions, markets and technologies. However, when new markets (space tourism) or new constrains (environmental) or new technologies (composite, natural laminar flow) emerge, the conventional solution is not necessarily best for the new situation. Which begs the question "how does a design team quickly screen and compare novel solutions to conventional solutions for new aerospace challenges?" The answer is rapid and flexible conceptual design Parametric Sizing. In the product design life-cycle, parametric sizing is the first step in screening the total vehicle in terms of …
Ideal Cycle Analysis Of A Regenerative Pulse Detonation Engine For Power Production, Rafaela Bellini
Ideal Cycle Analysis Of A Regenerative Pulse Detonation Engine For Power Production, Rafaela Bellini
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Over the last few decades, considerable research has been focused on pulse detonation engines (PDEs) as a promising replacement for existing propulsion systems with potential applications in aircraft ranging from the subsonic to the lower hypersonic regimes. On the other hand, very little attention has been given to applying detonation for electric power production. One method for assessing the performance of a PDE is through thermodynamic cycle analysis. Earlier works have adopted a thermodynamic cycle for the PDE that was based on the assumption that the detonation process could be approximated by a constant volume process, called the Humphrey cycle. …
Effective Thermal Management Of Electronic Devices From System To Die Level, Saket Karajgikar
Effective Thermal Management Of Electronic Devices From System To Die Level, Saket Karajgikar
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In any electronic device, the resistance to the flow of current through the transistors, interconnects, etc. results in a significant heat generation. If this heat is not removed from the device by providing appropriate cooling solutions, the possibility of thermal run away is very high. Under this condition the temperature would continue to rise until it reaches a point at which the device ceases to operate or loses its physical integrity. In presence of a cooling mechanism, the temperature rise is moderated as it asymptotically reaches an acceptable steady state value. Before any device is introduced in the market, it …
Effect Of Structural Design Parameters On Wafer Level Csp Ball Shear Strength And Their Influence On Accelerated Thermal Cycling Reliability, Nikhil R. Lakhkar
Effect Of Structural Design Parameters On Wafer Level Csp Ball Shear Strength And Their Influence On Accelerated Thermal Cycling Reliability, Nikhil R. Lakhkar
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Wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) is one of the most popular packages due to its size and cost advantages. It is expected that the usage of WLCSP in microelectronics and MEMS industry combined is going to cross 16000 Million Units by 2013. One of the main advantages of implementing WLCSP is its time to market because most of the package is done at the wafer level. Once the wafer processing is completed the package is just diced and mounted on board and the board is ready to go. However, just like any other package WLCSP too is not ideal …
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics Of Nanofluids And Nanocoatings, Sang Muk Kwark
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics Of Nanofluids And Nanocoatings, Sang Muk Kwark
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This research is a qualitative and quantitative investigation to understand the behaviors of nanofluids and nanocoated surfaces during pool boiling heat transfer. The pool boiling behavior of low concentration nanofluids, a mixture created by dispersing nanoparticles in pure water, was experimentally studied over a flat heater. A majority of this work was conducted using Al₂O₃ nanoparticles dispersed in water and some minor work was performed with others (CuO and diamond nanoparticles). Results from this study are consistent with those previously reported in demonstrating that boiling of nanofluids produces a nanocoating on the heater surface, and which in turn increases the …
Analysis Of Data Center Cooling Strategies And The Impact Of The Dynamic Thermal Management On The Data Center Efficiency, Veerendra Prakash Mulay
Analysis Of Data Center Cooling Strategies And The Impact Of The Dynamic Thermal Management On The Data Center Efficiency, Veerendra Prakash Mulay
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The power trend for Server systems continues to grow thereby making thermal management of Data centers a very challenging task. Although various configurations exist, the raised floor plenum with Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRACs) providing cold air is a popular operating strategy. The air cooling of data center however, may not address the situation where more energy is expended in cooling infrastructure than the thermal load of data center. Revised power trend projections by ASHRAE TC 9.9 predict heat load as high as 5000W per square feet of compute servers' equipment footprint by year 2010. These trend charts also indicate …
Development Of A Quantum Dot Mediated Thermometry For Minimally Invasive Thermal Therapy, Willard L. Hanson
Development Of A Quantum Dot Mediated Thermometry For Minimally Invasive Thermal Therapy, Willard L. Hanson
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Thermally-related, minimally invasive therapies are designed to treat tumors while minimizing damage to the surrounding tissues. Adjacent tissues become susceptible to thermal injury to ensure the cancer is completely destroyed. Destroying tumor cells, while minimizing collateral damage to the surrounding tissue, requires the capacity to control and monitor tissue temperatures both spatially and temporally. Current devices measure the tumor's tissue temperature at a specific location leaving the majority unmonitored. A point-wise application can not substantiate complete tumor destruction. This type of surgery would be more effective if volumetric tissue temperature measurement were available. On this premise, the feasibility of a …