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How Far Can a 1-Pixel Camera Go? Solving Vision Tasks Using Photoreceptors and Computationally Designed Visual Morphology

Jiawei Fu, Isabella Lucile Yu, Amir Roshan Zamir, Andrei Atanov, Rishubh Singh

A de facto standard approach in solving computer vision tasks is to use a common high-resolution camera and choose its placement on an agent based on human intuition. On the other hand, extremely simple and well-designed visual sensors found throughout nat ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Heat transfer of flow boiling carbon dioxide in vertical upward direction

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Rémi Revellin, David Schmid

Heat transfer measurements of flow boiling Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in vertical upward direction have been carried out with a dedicated test facility at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The experiments have been conducted in a vertical up ...

2022

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Data-Driven Reduced-Order Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media

Carlo Fiorina

This work presents a data-driven Reduced-Order Model (ROM) for parametric convective heat transfer problems in porous media. The intrusive Proper Orthogonal Decomposition aided Reduced-Basis (POD-RB) technique is employed to reduce the porous medium formul ...

MDPI2021

Experimental investigation of sequential narrow impingement channels for turbine cooling

Peter Ott, Michele Gaffuri

Sequentially stacked impingement channels allow for a more effective use of the cooling fluid and can limit the heat transfer reduction due to the crossflow when the number of jets increases. In this paper, sequential impingement channels are experimentall ...

2021

Novel pulsating heat pipe for high density power data centres: performance and flow regime analysis

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Filippo Cataldo

With the advancement of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and 5G telecommunications, where computational rate is constantly pushing its limits, highly efficient and reliable cooling devices are starting to become an overly critical factor. Not o ...

IEEE2021

Estimation of discrete choice models with hybrid stochastic adaptive batch size algorithms

Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Timothy Michael Hillel, Gael Lederrey

The emergence of Big Data has enabled new research perspectives in the discrete choice community. While the techniques to estimate Machine Learning models on a massive amount of data are well established, these have not yet been fully explored for the esti ...

2021

Assisted specification of discrete choice models

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Nicola Marco Ortelli

Determining appropriate utility specifications for discrete choice models is time-consuming and prone to errors. With the availability of larger and larger datasets, as the number of possible specifications exponentially grows with the number of variables ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Detection of Bad PMU Data using Machine Learning Techniques

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

This project presents a pre-State Estimation method for the detection of Bad Data (BD) in Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) using correlation analysis and a Neural Network Classifier. Presented in this paper is the algorithm design, the steps for generating ...

IEEE2020

Pressure Drop and Convective Heat Transfer in Different SiSiC Structures Fabricated by Indirect Additive Manufacturing

Sophia Haussener, Ehsan Rezaei

The microstructure of porous materials has a significant effect on their transport properties. Engineered cellular ceramics can be designed to exhibit properties at will, thanks to the advances in additive manufacturing. We investigated the heat and mass t ...

ASME2020

Quench analysis of the DEMO CS1 coil

Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin

The European DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (EU-DEMO) is being designed as an intermediary stage between the ITER experimental reactor and future commercial fusion power plants. The EU-DEMO is based on the tokamak concept with a fully superconducting mag ...

2020

Design of a Pilot SOFC System for the Combined Production of Hydrogen and Electricity under Refueling Station Requirements

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Alberto Mian, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes

The objective of the current work is to support the design of a pilot hydrogen and electricity producing plant that uses natural gas (or biomethane) as raw material, as a transition option towards a 100% renewable transportation system. The plant, with a s ...

2019

Solar heat gains through train windows: a non-negligible contribution to the energy balance

Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

The sector of transportation accounts for about one third of the total energy consumption in Switzerland. A monitoring campaign of the energy consumption of a regional train revealed the critical energy-consuming systems. Heating, cooling and ventilation w ...

2018

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drops of R1234ze(E) in a Silicon Micro-pin Fin Evaporator

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini, Chiara Falsetti

The development of newer and more efficient cooling techniques to sustain the increasing power density of high-performance computing systems is becoming one of the major challenges in the development of microelectronics. In this framework, two-phase coolin ...

Asme2017

A CFD study of the parameters influencing heat transfer in microchannel slug flow boiling

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini

Boiling heat transfer in microchannels has been investigated extensively in the last two decades. However, most results from independent experimental studies display a substantial disagreement on the influence of the flow conditions and mechanisms on the h ...

Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier2016

On the Effects of Coating Thickness in Transient Heat Transfer Experiments Using Thermochromic Liquid Crystals

Peter Ott, Alexandros Terzis

Transient heat transfer experiments typically employ thermochromic liquid crystals to temporally map surface temperatures. The desired heat transfer coefficient is then calculated from the solution of Fourier’s 1D transient heat conduction equation which i ...

Elsevier2016

Towards energy-autonomous cities using CO2 networks and Power to Gas storage

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu, Araz Ashouri

Under Energy Strategy 2050, the federal government of Switzerland plans to greatly reduce per capita energy consumption, decrease the share of fossil fuels, and replace the nuclear electricity generation by gains in efficiency and use of renewable energy s ...

2016

Impact of ns-DBD Plasma Actuation on the Boundary Layer Transition Using Convective Heat Transfer Measurements

Peter Ott, Bernhard Weigand, Alexandros Terzis, Philip Peschke

This paper demonstrates that the impact of nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge (ns-DBD) actuators on the structure of the boundary layer can be investigated using quantitative convective heat transfer measurements. For the experiments, the flow ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Centrality of trees for capacitated -center

Ola Nils Anders Svensson

We consider the capacitated -center problem. In this problem we are given a finite set of locations in a metric space and each location has an associated non-negative integer capacity. The goal is to choose (open) locations (called centers) and assign each ...

Springer Heidelberg2015