Nowadays, humankind extracts most of the energy it consumes from fossil fuels. Unfortunately, it entails building up the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. People have to cut the emissions of this gas drastically to avoid the global change in the climate in few decades. One of the options they have consists in using solar energy as a primary energy source. In this case, the main difficulty consists in the large scale energy storage needed for satisfying needs in energy at night. In this work, we give an example of energy storage in polymer surface layers of a polymer matrix composite filled with magnetic microparticles. Specifically, in the recent research V. B. Demchuk argued that improvement of mechanical properties of Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) composite materials filled with ferrite microparticles reached at sufficiently high filler concentrations through influencing the formation of these microcomposites by constant magnetic fields (CMFs) occurs thanks to the fact that PVC macromolecules situated in the polymer surface layers of these microcomposites are pushed out of regions of high magnetic field intensity. His reasoning is based on integrated analysis of laboratory measurements and numerical calculations. In this paper, we present computational abstractions that allow handling the chaotic disposition of the filler particles during calculation of magnetic fields in polymer surface layers of microcomposites near phase transition points under the constraint due to limited performance of modern computers.

(2015). Avoiding the global change in climate [conference presentation - intervento a convegno]. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/48814

Avoiding the global change in climate

2015-01-01

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Nowadays, humankind extracts most of the energy it consumes from fossil fuels. Unfortunately, it entails building up the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. People have to cut the emissions of this gas drastically to avoid the global change in the climate in few decades. One of the options they have consists in using solar energy as a primary energy source. In this case, the main difficulty consists in the large scale energy storage needed for satisfying needs in energy at night. In this work, we give an example of energy storage in polymer surface layers of a polymer matrix composite filled with magnetic microparticles. Specifically, in the recent research V. B. Demchuk argued that improvement of mechanical properties of Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) composite materials filled with ferrite microparticles reached at sufficiently high filler concentrations through influencing the formation of these microcomposites by constant magnetic fields (CMFs) occurs thanks to the fact that PVC macromolecules situated in the polymer surface layers of these microcomposites are pushed out of regions of high magnetic field intensity. His reasoning is based on integrated analysis of laboratory measurements and numerical calculations. In this paper, we present computational abstractions that allow handling the chaotic disposition of the filler particles during calculation of magnetic fields in polymer surface layers of microcomposites near phase transition points under the constraint due to limited performance of modern computers.
2015
Demchuk, V.; Demchuk, M.
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