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Using Longitudinal Fins to Improve the Melting Performance of Stearic Acid in Thermal Energy Storage Devices
The heat transfer efficiency of a thermal energy storage unit (TESU) can be improved by the addition of novel longitudinal fins. A series of TESUs...
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A Hydraulic Performance Comparison of Centrifugal Pump Operating in Pump and Turbine Modes
The modifications of impeller may show diverse impact on centrifugal pump operating in pump and turbine modes. To clarify this problem, the hydraulic...
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Pulling an adsorbed polymer chain off a solid surface
The thermally assisted detachment of a self-avoiding polymer chain from an adhesive surface by an external force applied to one of the chain-ends is...
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Phenomenological description of thin SrTiO3 films
The constants of the phenomenological potential of SrTiO 3 are calculated allowing for recent experimental data. The α 11 , α 12 , and t ...
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Exactly solvable model for the QCD tricritical endpoint
An inclusion of temperature and chemical-potential-dependent surface-tension in the gas of quark-gluon bags model resolves a long-standing problem of...
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Phenomenological description of phase transitions in thin BaTiO3 films
Phase transitions in thin epitaxial films of BaTiO 3 are described phenomenologically in terms of Landau potentials with sixth-and eighth-order terms....
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Tricritical Dynamics at the Demixing-λ-Transition in 3He-4He Mixtures
We calculate in two loop order the dynamical critical behavior at the tricritical point occuring in 3 He- 4 He mixtures. Model F ′ introduced by Siggia...
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Order and strain in main-chain smectic liquid-crystalline polymers and elastomers
The layer correlations in main-chain smectic liquid-crystal polymer and elastomer systems have been studied using high-resolution X-ray scattering....
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Anomalous behavior of the electrical resistivity of MnSi near the ferromagnetic phase transition
The results of measuring the electrical resistivity of a MnSi single crystal near the ferromagnetic phase transition at atmospheric and high...
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Liquid-liquid critical point: an analytical approach
Theoretical simulations and experimental studies have showed that many systems (like liquid metals) can exhibit two phase transitions: gas-liquid...
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On the tricritical point in MnSi under high pressures
The magnetic susceptibility of a MnSi single crystal is measured in the region of the ferromagnetic phase transition under pressures up to 0.8 GPa in...
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Small-world network effect in competing Glauber- and Kawasaki-type dynamics
In this article, we investigate the competing Glauber-type and Kawasaki-type dynamics with small-world network (SWN) effect, in the framework of the...
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Effect of elastic deformations on the multicritical behavior of disordered systems
A field-theoretical description of the behavior of disordered, elastically isotropic, compressible systems characterized by two order parameters at...
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Influence of striction effects on the multicritical behavior of homogeneous systems
A field-theoretical description of the behavior of homogeneous, elastically isotropic, compressible systems characterized by two order parameters at...
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Renormalized tricritical behaviour for wetting transitions
In this paper we study tricritical wetting behaviour in three dimensions. In particular we concentrate on systems with short-ranged forces and apply...
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The self-consistent diagram approximation for lattice systems
We apply the self-consistent diagram approximation to calculate equilibrium properties of lattice systems. The free energy of the system is...
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Spin glass behavior upon diluting frustrated magnets and spin liquids: a Bethe-Peierls treatment
A Bethe-Peierls treatment to dilution in frustrated magnets and spin liquids is given. A spin glass phase is present at low temperatures and close to...
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Magnetic fluids in an external field
Within mean field approximation we investigate the phase diagrams of magnetic fluids in presence of a magnetic field. In a finite field the magnetic...
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Random magnetic interactions and spin glass order competing with superconductivity: Interference of the quantum Parisi phase
We analyse the competition between spin glass (SG) order and local pairing superconductivity (SC) in the fermionic Ising spin glass with frustrated...