Constructs of highly effective heat transport paths by bionic optimization

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinguang CHENG
Solar RRL ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renzhong Deng ◽  
Chaorui Xue ◽  
Qing Chang ◽  
Jinlong Yang ◽  
Shengliang Hu

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 13563-13601
Author(s):  
T. Denk ◽  
G. W. Grimm ◽  
F. Grímsson ◽  
R. Zetter

Abstract. Shallowing of the Panama Sill and the closure of the Central American Seaway initiated the modern Loop Current/Gulf Stream circulation pattern during the Miocene but no direct evidence has yet been provided for effective heat transport to the northern North Atlantic during that time. Climatic signals from 11 precisely-dated plant-bearing sedimentary rock formations in Iceland, spanning 15–0.8 million years (Myr), resolve the impacts of the developing Miocene global thermohaline circulation on terrestrial vegetation in the subarctic North Atlantic region. "Köppen signatures" were implemented to express climatic properties of fossil plant taxa and their potential modern analogues using the principal concept of the generic Köppen–Geiger climate system, which is based on plant distribution patterns. Using Köppen signatures and the correlation between Köppen climate zones and major global vegetation zones, fossil assemblages were used to trace major vegetation shifts. This evidence was combined with evidence from tectonics and palaeoceanography. In contrast to the global climatic trend, the vegetation record reveals no cooling between ~ 15 and 12 Myr, whereas periods of climatic deterioration between 12–10 Myr, 8–4 Myr, and in the Pleistocene are in phase with increased pulses of ice-rafted debris in the Northern Hemisphere. The observed sequence of climate change in the northern North Atlantic can only be explained by an effective Gulf Stream-mediated heat transport from the middle Miocene onwards.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 7927-7942 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Denk ◽  
G. W. Grimm ◽  
F. Grímsson ◽  
R. Zetter

Abstract. Shallowing of the Panama Sill and the closure of the Central American Seaway initiated the modern Loop Current–Gulf Stream circulation pattern during the Miocene, but no direct evidence has yet been provided for effective heat transport to the northern North Atlantic during that time. Climatic signals from 11 precisely dated plant-bearing sedimentary rock formations in Iceland, spanning 15–0.8 million years (Myr), resolve the impacts of the developing Miocene global thermohaline circulation on terrestrial vegetation in the subarctic North Atlantic region. "Köppen signatures" were implemented to express climatic properties of fossil plant taxa and their potential modern analogues using the principal concept of the generic Köppen–Geiger climate system, which is based on plant distribution patterns. Using Köppen signatures and the correlation between Köppen climate zones and major global vegetation zones, fossil assemblages were used to trace major vegetation shifts. This evidence was combined with evidence from tectonics and palaeoceanography. In contrast to the global climatic trend, the vegetation record reveals no cooling between ~ 15 and 12 Myr, whereas periods of climatic deterioration between 12 and 10 Myr, 8 and 4 Myr, and in the Pleistocene are in phase with increased pulses of ice-rafted debris in the Northern Hemisphere. The observed sequence of climate change in the northern North Atlantic can most likely be explained by an effective Gulf Stream-mediated heat transport from the middle Miocene onwards.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Vázquez ◽  
Péter Ván ◽  
Róbert Kovács

There has been much interest in semiconductor superlattices because of their low thermal conductivities. This makes them especially suitable for applications in a variety of devices for the thermoelectric generation of energy, heat control at the nanometric length scale, etc. Recent experiments have confirmed that the effective thermal conductivity of superlattices at room temperature have a minimum for very short periods (in the order of nanometers) as some kinetic calculations had anticipated previously. This work will show advances on a thermodynamic theory of heat transport in nanometric 1D multilayer systems by considering the separation of ballistic and diffusive heat fluxes, which are both described by Guyer-Krumhansl constitutive equations. The dispersion relations, as derived from the ballistic and diffusive heat transport equations, are used to derive an effective heat conductivity of the superlattice and to explain the minimum of the effective thermal conductivity.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A40-A40 ◽  
Author(s):  
S MIEHLKE ◽  
P HEYMER ◽  
T OCHSENKUEHN ◽  
E BAESTLEIN ◽  
G YARIAN ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY F. KIRN
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2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Marciak-Kozłowska ◽  
Mirosław Kozłowski
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