Technical Papers and Presentations

Small-scale short-term thermal energy storage (TES) systems and large-scale seasonal TES systems have been the focus of many research projects. However, large-scale short-term TES units have not been covered in great depth, even though they play an important role by decoupling the heat ... Read More

Single droplet drying (SDD) is an established experimental set up in which an isolated droplet is dried under a controlled environment. The drying behavior in the SDD experiments is often complicated and challenged to observe. Hence, a robust model of single droplet drying can provide an ... Read More

Interacting with digital devices has become part of daily life, whether in consumer products, services, or industrial applications. Most display-based devices provide user interactivity through touch sensing via a touch panel. As the number of device features increases, it demands an ... Read More

The EPFLoop team from Lausanne last year won the 3rd place in SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2018. This year the team will participate at the 2019 Competition held at the SpaceX facilities California. Reliability of the different subsystems constituting the pod is a key point. ... Read More

Scientists and engineers have been designing and developing computational tools for the numerical simulation of heat transfer processes involving non-conventional heating or cooling effects for several years. Caloric effects rely on temperature variations upon external stimuli, e.g. ... Read More

Material constants are required to develop new materials for the aerospace, automotive and energy industries. With these highly accurate experimentally determined data, complex metallurgical melting processes can be simulated later, for example. The microstructure of the new alloy can be ... Read More

Surface engineering is a key technology used in a wide range of sectors in industry. Among other techniques, it involves adding functionality to a surface. This can be performed by creating a specific topography to a surface using laser texturing. In this paper, the focus is on ... Read More

The development of new experimental techniques designed to measure the thermal response of semiconductors at reduced length and time scales is revealing the requirement of generalized heat transport models beyond the classical Fourier law [1,2]. We present the Kinetic Collective ... Read More

The efforts to integrate and/or expand the renewables into the overall energy scheme are drastically increasing in Europe. This integration might somehow alter the energy scheme resulting into shortcomings (e.g. security of supply is not met). Therefore, a number of strategies and ... Read More

Whereas the physic models of fluid lubrication should be able to provide quantitative predictions to industrial problems, it is somehow demanding to provide the input data to feed these high-level equation systems. The operating conditions are generally available, and the material ... Read More