Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "Thermodynamics"
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Explorations of Black Hole Thermodynamics in de Sitter Spacetime
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)In this thesis I map out two approaches that are foundational to studying black hole thermodynamics in de Sitter spacetime. The first is to understand the "thermodynamic volume" of cosmological horizons in isolation. ... -
Exploring Ligand Structure and Thermodynamics of the Malachite Green RNA Aptamer
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)RNA aptamers are in vitro sequences of RNA that have a high affinity for their target ligand. They have applications in therapeutics, biosensors and molecular machines. While the practical applications of aptamers are ... -
Integration of Transpiration Cooling and Shock Thrust Vectoring
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-16)Transpiration cooling is used for active thermal protection whereas shock thrust vectoring is an attitude control approach. Both concepts rely on the injection, at the wall, of a secondary fluid into a high-speed and ... -
A path integral methodology for obtaining thermodynamic properties of nonadiabatic systems using Gaussian mixture distributions
(American Institute of Physics, 2018-05)We introduce a new path integral Monte Carlo method for investigating nonadiabatic systems in thermal equilibrium and demonstrate an approach to reducing stochastic error. We derive a general path integral expression for ... -
Single Phase Pump: Non-Mechanical Valvular Conduit
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)This thesis evaluates performance of a non-mechanical conduit valve that was designed for the purpose of this research. The motivation came from the need for a cooling system of portable computers (e.g. laptops and netbooks). ... -
Supercritical thermodynamic property evaluation via adaptive mesh tabulation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-30)Obtaining accurate computational simulations of fluid flows with a complex thermodynamic behaviour is difficult. This is partly due to the non-linear variation of thermophysical properties in the vicinity of critical point. ...