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We examine nonlocal conductivity in high-temperature superconductors from a phenomenological point of view. One wants to deduce the properties of the conductivity, especially its inherent length scales, from the transport data. Although…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 S. J. Phillipson , M. A. Moore , T. Blum

Designing high-performance electric machines that maintain their efficiency and reliability under uncertain material and operating conditions is crucial for industrial applications. In this paper, we present a novel framework for robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Peter Gangl , Theodor Komann , Nepomuk Krenn , Stefan Ulbrich

The development of cryogenic semiconductor electronics and superconducting quantum computing requires composite materials that can provide both thermal conduction and thermal insulation. We demonstrated that at cryogenic temperatures, the…

Shape calculus concerns the calculation of directional derivatives of some quantity of interest, typically expressed as an integral. This article introduces a type of shape calculus based on localized dilation of boundary faces through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Martin Berggren

Starting from a classical thermodynamic approach, we derive rate-type equations to describe the behavior of heat flow in deformable media. Constitutive equations are defined in the material (Lagrangian) description where the standard time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Claudio Giorgi , Angelo Morro , Federico Zullo

For the heat equation on a bounded subdomain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$, we investigate the optimal shape and location of the observation domain in observability inequalites. A new decomposition of $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ into heat packets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Heiko Gimperlein , Alden Waters

The flexible profile approach proposed earlier to create CTM (compact or reduced order thermal models) is extended to cover the area of conjugate heat transfer. The flexible profile approach is a methodology that allows building a highly…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 M. -N. Sabry

We investigate interfacial fluid dynamics and heat transfer at nanoscales using an improved diffuse interface approach for liquid-vapor interfaces in non-equilibrium. Conventional Navier-Stokes-Korteweg (NSK) formulations often fail to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Rahul Bhattacharjee , Henning Struchtrup , Anirudh Singh Rana

Three inverse boundary value problems for the heat equations in one space dimension are considered. Those three problems are: extracting an unknown interface in a heat conductive material, an unknown boundary in a layered material or a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masaru Ikehata

A class of non-smooth and non-convex optimization problems with penalty constraints linked to variational inequalities (VI) is studied with respect to its shape differentiability. The specific problem stemming from quasi-brittle fracture…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Victor A. Kovtunenko , Karl Kunisch

For nano-materials, heat conductivity is an ill-defined concept. This classical concept assumes the validity of Fourier's law, which states the heat flux is proportional to temperature gradient, with heat conductivity used to denote this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Peiyi Chen , Irene M. Gamba , Qin Li , Li Wang

In this paper we consider a shape optimization problem for the minimization of the erosion, that is caused by the impact of inert particles onto the walls of a bended pipe. Using the continuous adjoint approach, we formally compute the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Raphael Hohmann , Christian Leithäuser

We consider the existence of optimal shapes in the context of the thermomechanical system of partial differential equations (PDE) using the recent approach based on elliptic regularity theory. We give an extended and improved definition of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Laura Bittner , Hanno Gottschalk

When the variations of surface temperature are measured both spatially and temporally, analytical expressions that correctly account for multi-dimensional transient conduction can be applied. To enhance the accessibility of these accurate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-03 David Buttsworth , Timothy Buttsworth

In this paper we consider a minimization problem which arises from thermal insulation. A compact connected set $K$, which represents a conductor of constant temperature, say $1$, is thermally insulated by surrounding it with a layer of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Francesco Della Pietra , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

We propose a model with a quantized degree of freedom to study the heat transport in quasi-one dimensional system. Our simulations reveal three distinct temperature regimes. In particular, the intermediate regime is characterized by heat…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-Wen Mao , You-Quan Li

Spaces where each element describes a shape, so-called shape spaces, are of particular interest in shape optimization and its applications. Theory and algorithms in shape optimization are often based on techniques from differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Lidiya Pryymak , Tim Suchan , Kathrin Welker

By tailoring the geometry of the upper boundary in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection we manipulate the boundary layer -- interior flow interaction, and examine the heat transport using the Lattice Boltzmann method. For fixed amplitude…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-14 Srikanth Toppaladoddi , Sauro Succi , John S. Wettlaufer

Since shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations, we show how shape optimization techniques can also be applied to an interface identification problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Matthias Schuster , Volker Schulz

In this paper new characterization equipment for thermal interface materials is presented. Thermal management of electronic products relies on the effec-tive dissipation of heat. This can be achieved by the optimization of the system design…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-13 R. Schacht , D. May , B. Wunderle , O. Wittler , A. Gollhardt , B. Michel , H. Reichl