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Non-isothermal modeling of drying kinetics of ceramic tiles
Taylor & Francis (2016)The present study has been undertaken to optimize the drying stage in ceramic tile manufacture. Tests were conducted to determine drying kinetics, establishing how air temperature and relative humidity influenced this ... -
Non-linear finite element modelling of light-to-heat energy conversion applied to solar nanofluids
Elsevier (2020-07-19)Nanoparticles (NPs) exhibit remarkable photothermal conversion efficiency under optical illumination. This light-induced heating on NPs is interesting in many different applications, such as solar radiation absorption in ... -
Novel compound waste heat-solar driven ejector-compression heat pump for simultaneous cooling and heating using environmentally friendly refrigerants
Elsevier (2021-01-15)This work investigates the theoretical performance of a novel compound waste heat-solar driven ejector-solar assisted heat pump for simultaneous heating and cooling purposes. The system utilizes waste heat from three different ... -
Novel molecules as working fluids for refrigeration, heat pump and organic Rankine cycle systems
Elsevier (2022-10)Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), one of the most used working fluids in HVAC&R and ORC applications, are being phased down rapidly because of their high global warming potential (GWP). Consequently, this sector is looking for ... -
Nuevos criterios ecológicos para la concesión de la etiqueta ecológica europea a los revestimientos rígidos
Publica (2009)El objeto de este artículo es dar a conocer los nuevos criterios ecológicos que deberán cumplir los revestimientos rígidos para la consecución de la etiqueta ecológica comunitaria. La etiqueta ecológica europea constituye ... -
Numerical analysis of performance uncertainty of heat exchangers operated with nanofluids
Elsevier Ltd. (2022-03-07)In this paper, we analyse the performance of two types of heat exchangers with nanofluid as the working fluid in turbulent flow regime ( 4, 000–180, 000). Based on the experimental uncertainty of the thermophysical properties ... -
Numerical and experimental characterization of the hydrodynamics and drying kinetics of a barbotine slurry spray
Elsevier (2019-02-23)Spray drying is a basic unit operation in several process industries such as food, pharmaceutical, ceramic, and others. In this work, a Eulerian-Lagrangian three-phase simulation is presented to study the drying process ... -
Numerical assessment of performance characteristics and two-phase flow dynamics of a centrifugal rotor operating under gas entrainment condition
Springer (2021-01-13)This work presents a numerical study of performance characteristics and flow dynamics of a centrifugal rotor operating with gas-liquid flow. An Euler-Euler polydispersed model is adopted, which was validated in a previous ... -
Numerical investigation of models for drag, lift, wall lubrication and turbulent dispersion forces for the simulation of gas-liquid two-phase flow
Elsevier (2015-06)In order to qualify CFD codes for accurate numerical predictions of transient evolution of flow regimes in a vertical gas–liquid two-phase flow in a pipe, suitable closure models (inter-phase forces) for the momentum ... -
Numerical investigation of the effect of viscosity in a multistage electric submersible pump
Taylor & Francis (2017-02-04)Electric submersible pump (ESP) systems are commonly used as an artificial lift technique by the petroleum industry. Operations of ESPs in oil wells are subjected to performance degradation due to the effect of oil viscosity. ... -
Numerical investigation of the flow in a multistage electric submersible pump
Elsevier (2015-12)This article presents a numerical study on the flow in a multistage, mixed-type Electric Submersible Pump (ESP). Several details about the application of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program based on the finite ... -
Numerical Modeling of the Mechanical Reliability of Multicoated Nanoencapsulated Phase-Change Materials with Improved Thermal Performance
Wiley (2021-12-21)Nanoencapsulated phase-change materials (nePCMs) are investigated for enhancing thermal energy storage. However, the shell of these nanocapsules may fail due to stress developed during thermal processes, leading to melting ... -
Numerical modelling and vibration serviceability assessment of a steel footbridge with a significant 3D dynamic behaviour
SAGE Publications (2023-06-19)This paper focuses on the vibration serviceability assessment and numerical modelling of an existing steel truss footbridge located in the outskirts of Castellón, Spain. The footbridge is rather slender and composed by a ... -
Numerical modelling of surface aeration and N2O emission in biological water resource recovery
Elsevier (2024)Biokinetic modelling of N2O production and emission has been extensively studied in the past fifteen years. In contrast, the physical-chemical hydrodynamics of activated sludge reactor design and operation, and their impact ... -
Numerical simulation of gas-liquid flows in a centrifugal rotor
Elsevier (2020-08-10)Two-phase flows generally represent an adverse condition for centrifugal pumps. Research about this topic tends to be focused on performance evaluation through experimental approaches, while numerical works are quite scarce. ... -
Numerical strategies for the Galerkin–proper generalized decomposition method
Elsevier (2013)The Proper Generalized Decomposition or, for short, PGD is a tensor decomposition based technique to solve PDE problems. It reduces calculation and storage cost drastically and presents some similarities with the Proper ... -
Numerical tooth contact analysis of gear transmissions through the discretization and adaptive refinement of the contact surfaces
Elsevier (2016)The tooth contact analysis (TCA) is an important resource for the design of gear drives. This widely used analysis provides the contact pattern, contact path and the function of transmission errors that are directly related ... -
On the basic phenomenon of soil-structure interaction on the free vibration response of beams : Application to railway brigdes
Elsevier (2016-10)The dynamic transverse response of beam type bridges under railway traffic is addressed in this contribution. In particular, how soil-structure interaction may affect the critical or resonant velocities and the associated ... -
On the effects of the fix geometric constraint in 2D profiles on the reusability of parametric 3D CAD models
Springer-Verlag (2018-06)In order to be reusable, history-based feature-based parametric CAD models must reliably allow for modifications while maintaining their original design intent. In this paper, we demonstrate that relations that fix the ... -
On the Existence of a Progressive Variational Vademecum based on the Proper Generalized Decomposition for a Class of Elliptic Parameterized Problems
Elsevier (2018-03)In this study, we present the mathematical analysis needed to explain the convergence of a progressive variational vademecum based on the proper generalized decomposition (PGD). The PGD is a novel technique that was developed ...