This study was made available online in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. "While fluid motion has a characteristic time scale for recovery and relaxation, viscoelastic fluids ...

For their study, aimed at laying the foundation for understanding thermal transport in polymeric materials and controlling heat transfer across heterogeneous interfaces, the team created two ...

Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of ...

Understanding the differences among key temperature-control devices, such as heaters, coolers and heat exchangers, allows users to realize their unique benefits When it comes to temperature control in ...

Beyond convection’s central role in myriad engineering heat transfer applications, it underlies many of nature’s dynamical designs on larger-than-human scales. For example, solar heating of Earth’s ...