A building cooling control strategy was developed and tested for a 1.4 million square foot (130,000 square meter) office building located in Hoffman Estates, IL. The goal of the control strategy was to utilize building thermal mass to limit the peak cooling load for continued building operation

With power density and hence cooling costs rising exponentially, processor packaging can no longer be designed for the worst case, and there is an urgent need for runtime processor-level techniques that can regulate operating temperature when the package’s capacity is exceeded. Evaluating

preliminary designs • Experimental Testing of Cooling Concepts-Experimental verification of the operation performances

A study of film cooling requirements of a modern aero gas turbine combustion chamber over a typical aircraft flight path is undertaken. A computational procedure is used to estimate and optimize the coolant flow for a given value of the metal temperature along the whole length of the liner wall

To my parents. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my research advisor, Professor Jamie Phillips, for all of his guidance, support, and mentorship throughout my career as a graduate student at the University of Michigan. I am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work alongside him. I sincerely appreciate all of the time he has taken to meet with me to discuss and review my research work. He is always very thoughtful and respectful of his students, treating us as peers and valuing our opinions. Professor Phillips has been a wonderful inspiration to me. I have learned so much from him, and I believe he truly exemplifies the highest standard of teacher and technical leader. I would also like to acknowledge the past and present members of the Phillips Research Group for their help, useful discussions, and camaraderie. In particular, I would like to thank Dr. Emine Cagin for her constant encouragement and humor. Emine has been a wonderful role model. I truly admire her expertise, her accom-plishments, and her unfailing optimism and can only hope to follow in her footsteps. I would also like to thank Dr. Pierre Emelie, whose research on HgCdTe devices has been the basis of the work I have pursued in my dissertation. Pierre has always been available to provide technical advice related to my research, and I sincerely appreciate him taking the time to do so in his busy schedule. Next, I would like to thank Professor Jose Oscar Mur-Miranda, my undergraduate research advisor at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. During my time at Olin and since, he has been very supportive of me, encouraging me in my technical studies and creativity. I have really enjoyed working with and learning from Oscar, iii who has influenced the direction of my career focus for the better. I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge my former teachers from

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Ammonium nitrate (AN) is a pos-sible replacement for ammonium perchlorate as an oxidizer in solid rocket motors potentially generat-ing large amounts of AN to be recycled or reused. AN requires phase stabilization before it can be used, so small amounts of potassium dinitrimide (KDN) are added

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Monin-Obukhov similarity approach for near-surface meteorological measurements but includes separate models for the ocean's cool skin and the diurnal warm layer, which are used to derive true skin temperature from the bulk temperature measured at some depth near the surface. The basic structure

will be determined by the TOA forcing, and as a result BC by itself will lead to a warming of both the surface (in spite of the surface dimming) and the atmosphere (in spite of the atmospheric solar heating), whereas ABCs will lead to a cooling of both the surface and the atmosphere. In regions where such coupling