Sentences with phrase «of transport of heat»

I think David Young's point can be addressed by looking at how much of the transport of heat and moisture is resolved by the model, and it turns out it all is very well accounted for.

This can be a result of heat storage in summer and release in winter; or of transport of heat from warmer locations: a particularly notable example of this is Western Europe, which is heated at least in part by the north atlantic drift.

Movement of water vapor, and its associated latent heat of vaporization, is also responsible for about 50 % of the transport of heat from the tropics to the poles.

Not exact matches

LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th of the volume of gas, making it economically feasible to transport over long distances by ship.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

United also said it would stop transporting animals between May 1 and Sept. 30 for travel to and from Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Tuscon because of the extreme heat in those destinations during summer months.»

Reducing the total amount of energy used in the manufacturing and transporting of goods, and in the transporting of people and the heating and cooling of homes and offices is helpful in itself.

These mini cakes have the ability to transport you to an exotic island where you can enjoy the feeling of sand between you toes and the heat of the sun on your skin, all in a single bite.

Energy firm's suite of products launched this week signposts a UK power, heat and transport system based around managing demand rather than boosting supply

Fluids are essential for almost all of the body's functions, including digesting food, transporting nutrients and releasing heat.

We have to clean the plastic in a closed looped system to remove all of the chemical residues and contaminants, then we apply the NANO technology to the plastic and when we heat it up to make the green little nurdles, the heat exchange eliminates any toxins, poisons, leaching, the list goes on and on... The plastic is so safe, that the Department of Conservation has asked us to make the same box for agricultural applications for loading and transporting fresh veggies from farm to market instead of using a waxed based cardboard box.

«In the case of heat stroke, the definitive care is cooling, which may best be performed immediately onsite before transport,» said Dr. Jolie C. Holschen, a Loyola Medicine emergency medicine physician and co-author of the expert panel's consensus statement.

Committee chair Mary Creagh said: «Billions of pounds of investment is needed in clean energy, transport, heating and industry to meet our carbon targets,»

«Algonquin will continue with its construction, in accordance with the FERC Certificate, to meet the project's critical construction timeframes and safely transport additional supplies of clean, reliable, domestic natural gas to heat the region's homes and businesses,» she said in a prepared statement.

The heat resistant handle makes it easy for you to transport and the no - drip spout means you'll have less of a mess.

It would provide important insight into how much SRM would reduce radiative heating, the concentration of water vapor in the stratosphere, and the processes that determine water vapor transport — which affects the concentration of ozone.

Controlling the heat and current of particles in this way could open up the door to various strategies for designing quantum transport devices with directionality control of the injection of currents for applications in thermoelectrics, spintronics, phononics and detection, among others.

This deep convection, the most conspicuous feature of the tropical circulation, in the company of precipitation transports latent heat from the earth's surface to the upper atmosphere.

«It beautifully unifies our understanding of the interrelation between charge, heat and spin transport.»

In 1982, German researchers discovered that the edge of the plasma can spontaneously bifurcate into a high pedestal with a steep gradient, or transport barrier, that produces the H - mode confinement and maintains the heat of the plasma core.

The complex interactions of atmospheric turbulence and heat transport affect global climate.

He says this energy could be vital for many marine life forms, and it could play a role in water transport and the redistribution of carbon dioxide and heat to deeper waters, thereby sustaining a healthy marine environment.

«If you can make heat behave as a wave and have interference while controlling how far it moves, you could basically control all the properties behind heat transport,» said Martin Maldovan, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the paper's author.

Until now, heat transport in nanostructured materials has largely been controlled by introduction of atomic - scale impurities, interfaces, surfaces and nanoparticles that reduce heat flow by scattering the phonons diffusely.

«As powerful as the cycle is, it is also surprisingly susceptible to environmental changes — and humankind is imposing massive perturbations on Amazonia by both cutting down the trees and heating up the air with greenhouse gases, which reduces large - scale moisture transport and precipitation, and end up affecting even the untouched patches of the forests.»

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

Although only one side of the planet faces its parent star, powerful winds transport heat from the bright side around the planet, keeping the dark side almost as hot.

«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.

«The Importance of Planetary Rotation Period for Ocean Heat Transport» is published in the journal Astrobiology on Monday, July 21, 2014.

They looked at how different planetary rotation rates would impact heat transport with the presence of oceans taken into account.

One of the most harmful phenomena these investigations have discovered is the drift instability, which leads to small - scale turbulence of the plasma that efficiently transports heat and particles by convection to the outer regions, where they are lost and unable to contribute to nuclear fusion.

A combination of computer simulations and observational data reveal that air pockets from the eye can transport heat and moisture into the surrounding storm, increasing the hurricane's intensity.

«Whatever the cause, some heat does indeed leak back toward the solar surface, but the total amount of energy so transported is really quite small, and can not raise the photospheric temperature very much.

Convection, or the flow of mantle material transporting heat, drives plate tectonics.

Changes to the transport of heat by the Earth's atmosphere and oceans to the poles have also been suggested as a possible contributor to the steep rise in Arctic temperatures.

Such micro-structured surfaces have helped design new surfaces that mimic surfaces found in nature, such as self - cleaning surfaces, reduced - drag surfaces, surfaces capable of transporting liquids in microfluidic systems, variants with anti-icing or heat transfer properties, and even surfaces that facilitate oil - water separation.

The transport of heat in amorphous silicon is determined by the behavior of phonons in the material.

Using global climate models and NASA satellite observations of Earth's energy budget from the last 15 years, the study finds that a warming Earth is able to restore its temperature equilibrium through complex and seemingly paradoxical changes in the atmosphere and the way radiative heat is transported.

Using 19 climate models, a team of researchers led by Professor Minghua Zhang of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, discovered persistent dry and warm biases of simulated climate over the region of the Southern Great Plain in the central U.S. that was caused by poor modeling of atmospheric convective systems — the vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere.

And there can be a transport of energy from the tropical Pacific to continental and polar regions where the Planck Response overwhelms positive, heat - trapping local effects.

Upper - ocean processes dissipate heat, transport nutrients and impact the uptake of carbon dioxide — making circulation a critical driver of biological activity in the ocean.

As well warming direct from the sun, recent evidence shows that increasing amounts of heat energy are being transported from the tropics to the Arctic (Nature DOI: 10.1038 / nature06502).

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

The temperature gradient creates atmospheric circulation, which transports heat from areas of equatorial excess to the cold polar regions.

These so - called urban heat islands result from various factors, such as population density, surface sealing, thermal radiation of buildings, industry, and transport as well as lacking vegetation.

These promising new directions include higher fusion power densities, and hence smaller reactors; development of «transport barriers» in the plasma, leading to improved energy confinement and smaller sizes; self - driven plasma currents that permit steady - state operation and low recirculating power; and the development of advanced divertor concepts to provide particle control and heat removal over long reactor lifetimes.

Convection, the transfer of heat due to the bulk movement of molecules within gases and liquids, plays a major role in astrophysical processes, such as energy transport, pulsation and winds.

Graphene — a hexagonal lattice of single layer carbon atoms exhibiting outstanding charge and heat transport properties — has garnered extensive research and development interest.

T2Well is an extension of the TOUGH (Transport of Unsaturated Groundwater and Heat) codes, a suite of software tools developed at Berkeley Lab that uses numerical models to simulate the flow of liquid, gas, and heat in porous materials and weHeat) codes, a suite of software tools developed at Berkeley Lab that uses numerical models to simulate the flow of liquid, gas, and heat in porous materials and weheat in porous materials and wells.