heat transfer Archives

Mojtaba Edalatpour drops ice onto a hot plate in the Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech.

Using ice to boil water: Researcher makes heat transfer discovery that expands on 18th century principle

Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity

Magnetic particles in cooling water could prevent hotspots in nuclear plants

Finding the keys to boiling heat transfer

Better droplet condensation could boost power efficiency

Thermophones Produce Sound Without Vibration

Nanocars are powered by electrostatic forces from QED induced charges

Nanocars comprising fullerene spherical wheels on hydrocarbon axles are shown to move on substrates by electrostatic forces from charges produced by quantum electrodynamics (QED)

Background

Quantum Mechanics Questions the Molecular Dynamics of Submicron Structures

In the 1950s, Metropolis and Teller pioneered molecular dynamics (MD) as a method to derive the thermodynamic and transport properties of bulk molecular liquids. Submicron ensembles comprising a few hundred atoms with periodic boundary conditions were used to derive the bulk liquid properties.