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We present a new stochastic analysis for steady and transient one-dimensional heat conduction problem based on the homogenization approach. Thermal conductivity is assumed to be a random field K consisting of random variables of a total…
The transfer matrix formalism is widely used in modeling heat diffusion in layered structures.Due to an intrinsic numerical instability issue, which has not yet drawn enough attention to the heat transfer community,this formalism fails at…
The present study proposes a new efficient and robust algorithm for multi-objectives topology optimization of heat transfer surfaces to achieve heat transfer enhancement with a less pressure drop penalty based on a continuous adjoint…
Metaheuristic algorithms are becoming an important part of modern optimization. A wide range of metaheuristic algorithms have emerged over the last two decades, and many metaheuristics such as particle swarm optimization are becoming…
The hybrid opto-electronic correlator (HOC) architecture has been shown to be able to detect matches in a shift, scale, and rotation invariant (SSRI) manner by incorporating a polar Mellin transform (PMT) pre-processing step. Here we…
We propose a splitting approach to solve the second-order Hamilton--Jacobi equation, reducing it to a heat step and a purely first-order step. The latter is implemented using a gradient value policy iteration algorithm, enabling efficient…
Transition path theory (TPT) for diffusion processes is a framework for analysing the transitions of multiscale ergodic diffusion processes between disjoint metastable subsets of state space. Most methods for applying TPT involve the…
By allowing a large number of links to be simultaneously transmitted, directional antenna arrays with beamforming have been envisioned as a promising candidate to reach unprecedented levels of spatial isolation. To achieve the high…
According to holography, a black hole is dual to a thermal state in a strongly coupled quantum system. One of the best-known examples of holography is the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. Despite extensive…
This paper presents the latest progress on characterization of our membrane assisted phase-change heat sink (MHS) at conditions suitable for implementation in data centers (DCs). Experiments are conducted using water as the working fluid at…
Optimizing or sampling complex cost functions of combinatorial optimization problems is a longstanding challenge across disciplines and applications. When employing family of conventional algorithms based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)…
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are a powerful tool for computation with complex probability distributions. However the performance of such methods is critically dependant on properly tuned parameters, most of which are difficult if…
In modern multi-core Mixed-Criticality (MC) systems, a rise in peak power consumption due to parallel execution of tasks with maximum frequency, specially in the overload situation, may lead to thermal issues, which may affect the…
An Iterative Reanalysis Approximation (IRA) is integrated with the Moving Morphable Components (MMCs) based topology optimization (IRA-MMC) in this study. Compared with other classical topology optimization methods, the Finite Element (FE)…
HfO$_2$ is an important high-$\kappa$ dielectric and ferroelectric, exhibiting a complex potential energy landscape with several phases close in energy. It is, however, a strongly anharmonic solid, and thus describing its…
Optimal power flow (OPF) is a key tool for planning and operations in energy grids. The line-flow constraints, generator loading effect, piece-wise cost functions, emission, and voltage quality cost make the optimization model non-convex…
Utilizing a simplified quantum model approach, the low-energy inelastic collision processes between yttrium atoms (ions) and hydrogen atoms have been studied. Rate coefficients corresponding to the mutual neutralization, ion-pair formation,…
A new computational method for finite-temperature properties of strongly correlated electrons is proposed by extending the variational Monte Carlo method originally developed for the ground state. The method is based on the path integral in…
We study the Hamiltonian flow for optimization (HF-opt), which simulates the Hamiltonian dynamics for some integration time and resets the velocity to $0$ to decrease the objective function; this is the optimization analogue of the…
The increasing demand for materials capable of withstanding high temperatures and harsh environments necessitates the discovery of advanced alloys. This study introduces a computational routine to predict solid-state phase stability and…