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Effects of temperature on tidally influenced coastal unconfined aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Li Pu, Chenming Zhang

Aquifer-ocean temperature contrasts are common worldwide. Their effects on flow and salinity distributions in unconfined coastal aquifers are, however, poorly understood. Based on laboratory experiments and numerical simulations, we examined the responses ...

2020

Turbulent Flows over Rough Permeable Beds in Mountain Rivers: Experimental Insights and Modeling

Gauthier Paul Daniel Marie Rousseau

Steep mountain streams exhibit shallow waters with roughness elements such as stones and pebbles that are comparable in size to flow depth. Owing to the difficulty in measuring fluid velocities at the interface, i.e., from the rough permeable bed to the fr ...

EPFL2019

A novel microfabrication platform for hybrid multilayer MEMS

Nahid Hosseini

In Atomic force microscopy (AFM), the tip-sample interaction force can be measured through two primary detection techniques: optical beam detection (OBD) and electrical (self-sensing) readout. Compared to the optical method, the convenience of the self-sen ...

EPFL2019

Two-Phase Flow Simulations within Plate Heat Exchangers

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

Plate heat exchangers are widely adopted in many industrial applications, such as ventilation, air conditioning, heat transfer processes, heat pumps and cooling of hydrodynamic circuits in engines. They provide higher heat transfer performance, compactness ...

IEEE2018

Soft Magnets Implementation using a Stereolithography-based 3D Printer

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Cécile Gisèle Aimée Jeannine Cuchet, Augustin Muster

A wide part of the proposed paper is devoted to designing soft magnets using a stereolithography 3D printer. A state of the art on soft magnetic materials is carried out together with an overview of the existing printing technologies to obtain complex non- ...

2017

Transit times-the link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

Paolo Benettin

In spite of trying to understand processes in the same spatial domain, the catchment hydrology and water quality scientific communities are relatively disconnected and so are their respective models. This is emphasized by an inadequate representation of tr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

High-resolution, large-area fabrication of compliant electrodes via laser ablation for robust, stretchable dielectric elastomer actuators and sensors

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

A key element in stretchable actuators, sensors and systems based on elastomer materials are compliant electrodes. While there exist many methodologies for fabricating electrodes on dielectric elastomers, very few succeed in achieve high-resolution pattern ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

A Die-Level Post-CMOS Processing Protocol for Multi-Layer 3D Integration

Davide Sacchetto, Seniz Esra Küçük, Yusuf Leblebici, Clemens Benedict Nyffeler

In this work, a chip-level post-CMOS processing protocol for 3D integration is presented to achieve multilayer stacking. This protocol includes TSV formation on the top chip, bonding the chips on top of each other, and finally the electrical connection pro ...

2014

Characterization of piezoelectric material for micro thermal harvesters

Paul Muralt, Emilie Catherine Sylviane Trioux

This paper presents the first realizations of a novel concept for thermal energy harvesting at micro scale. The devices proposed here are based on a two-step transduction combining thermo-mechanical and piezoelectric conversion. In this contribution, we pr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Fabrication of slot waveguide cavity for sensing application

Hans Peter Herzig, Qing Tan, Armando Cosentino

The fabrication of a slot waveguide cavity oriented to sensing application is demonstrated. The choice of materials and the development of the process flow steps, including E-beam lithography (EBL) and metal lift-off of a single thin layer, are illustrated ...

2010

Micromachined electrospray thrusters for spacecraft propulsion

Renato Krpoun

Micromachining has enabled the downscaling of large, massive and power hungry systems into small batch-produced integrated devices. Recent progress in electrospray thruster technology, in particular the discovery of an ionic emission mode using the ionic l ...

EPFL2009

Impact of geometrical properties on permeability and fluid phase distribution in porous media

To predict fluid phase distribution in porous media, the effect of geometric properties on flow processes must be understood. In this study, we analyze the effect of volume, surface, curvature and connectivity (the four Minkowski functionals) on the hydrau ...

2008

Liquid fragmentation and intermittent flow regimes in unsaturated fractured media

Dani Or

Flow processes in unsaturated fractures considerably differ from flow in rock matrix because of the dominance of gravitational forces, accentuated by variations in fracture geometry. This gives rise to liquid fragmentation, fingering, and intermittent flow ...

American Geophysical Union2005