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Managing Heat Transfer at Material Interfaces
Through a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), a team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Brown University, Stanford University, and University of California at Santa Cruz is studying the fundamental processes by which heat is transferred across material interfaces.
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A team of engineers and other scientists from academia and industry is close to completing its work on an advanced cooling system for high-heat generating computer chips for electric and hybrid cars as well as computers and telecommunications systems. The new technology is needed to meet the cooling requirements for these chips that generate much more heat than conventional chips.
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German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius is considered one of the principal founders of the science of thermodynamics, building on the work of Sadi Carnot and others. He better defined the first and second laws of thermodynamics and introduced the concept of entropy.
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The Heat Transfer Division's objective is to enhance the theory and application of heat transfer in equipment and thermodynamic processes in all fields of mechanical engineering and related technologies.
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