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Influence of passive deformation in the lift coefficient of a NACA0012 wing model
(Elsevier, 2024)The extensive use of lightweight materials in aerial vehicle wings involves structural flexibility phenomena that generate non-negligible deformation effects. This influence is not restricted to big aircraft but also plays ... -
Optical performance analysis of the Copenhagen solar cooker with COMSOL Multiphysics
(Elsevier, 2024-01-31)The Copenhagen solar cooker is a compact, panel-type design with four flexible reflective panels to redirect solar radiation onto a cooking pot. The geometric configuration of the panels is adjustable, depending on the sun ... -
Coupling centrifuge drainage with microwave drying operation: description of cake desaturation before drying
(American Filtration & Separation Society, 2013-07-01)Centrifuge drainage is an operation which found main applications in pharmaceutical, chemical and textile industry. It is an efficient and economic process, and is frequently used before a thermal drying to eliminate most ... -
Dehydration: coupling centrifuge drainage with microwave drying operation
(Filtech, 2013-10-22)In solid-liquid separation, the centrifugal drainage operation is an efficient and economic process for particulate suspensions which found main applications in the pharmaceutical, chemical and textile industries. It is ... -
Optical characterization of a funnel solar cooker with azimuthal sun tracking through ray-tracing simulation
(Elsevier, 2022-01-20)Funnel type solar cookers are simple and effective. Most of them rely on a multifaceted reflector to concentrate solar radiation on a cooking pot that is placed inside a transparent enclosure to create a greenhouse effect. ... -
Experimental thermal performance evaluation of different configurations of Copenhagen solar cooker
(Elsevier, 2021-12-01)In this work, four different configurations of Copenhagen solar cookers were tested experimentally at the same time under the same weather conditions. First tests were carried out using pots without water load. Secondly, ... -
New approach for analysing the effect of minor and major solar cooker design changes: Influence of height trivet on the power of a funnel cooker
(Elsevier, 2021-08-14)In present work, the power values of two funnel cookers were determined by following the standard ASAE S580.1 procedure and also a novel improved approach for better analysing the effect of minor design changes. This new ... -
Experimental determination of the standardised power of a solar funnel cooker for low sun elevations
(Elsevier, 2021-02-04)Over the past few decades, many efficient solar cooker designs have evolved. It is important to measure their performance and communicate this information to researchers, manufacturers and users around the world. Funnel ... -
Performance of solar funnel cookers using intermediate temperature test load under low sun elevation
(Elsevier, 2021-08-11)Solar funnel cookers can be designed as attractive and affordable low-cost devices accessible to people in all continents of the world regardless of their walk-in life. The present work is aimed to investigate the ... -
Simulations of a tornadic supercell event in the south of Spain: Sensitivity to initial and boundary conditions and microphysics parameterizations
(Elsevier, 2024-01-24)A tornadic supercell near the village of Campillos (Malaga province) occurred on 26 August 2019 with several associated damages. In this study, we analyze the sensitivity of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model ... -
Evolutionary optimization of a motorcycle traction control system based on fuzzy logic.
(IEEE, 2014-11-13)Braking and traction control systems are fundamental vehicle safety equipments. The first ones prevent the wheels from locking, maintaining, when possible, the handling of the vehicle under emergency braking. While the ... -
Robust road condition detection system using in vehicle standard sensors.
(MDPI, 2015-12-19)The appearance of active safety systems, such as Anti-lock Braking System, Traction Control System, Stability Control System, etc., represents a major evolution in road safety. In the automotive sector, the term vehicle ... -
Design and testing of a steering damper for motorcycles based on a shear-thickening fluid.
(IOP, 2022-08-02)This work is intended to show the feasibility of the utilisation of a shear-thickening fluid as working fluid in a steering damper for motorcycles. To that end, a prototype of a steering damper has been designed and then ... -
Modeling of tire vertical behavior using a test bench
(IEEE, 2020)Tire models are of great importance for precise investigations of vertical vehicle dynamics, including vehicular safety and riding comfort. An adequate modeling of the tire is crucial to properly reproduce vehicle vertical ... -
Feasibility study by simulation of a small sized Stirling engine for cooling generation.
(2023)Over the years, the demand for energy is increasing worldwide mainly due to population and consumption growth. At this point, Stirling engines play a very important role due to their high efficiency and reliability and ... -
Unsteady Propulsion of a Two-Dimensional Flapping Thin Airfoil in a Pulsating Stream.
(AIAA, 2023-06-26)The cruising velocity of animals, or robotic vehicles, that use flapping wings or fins to propel themselves is not constant but oscillates around a mean value with an amplitude usually much smaller than the mean, and a ... -
Axisymmetric inertialess model for the capture of airborne microparticles using an electrospray.
(Elsevier, 2023-10-06)We theoretically analyze the effectiveness of an electrospray of ultrafine droplets to filter out micron sized particles from a gas stream. To that end, we introduce an axisymmetric configuration where the airborne particles ... -
On-line learning applied to spiking neural network for antilock braking systems
(Elsevier, 2023-09-18)Computationally replicating the behaviour of the cerebral cortex to perform the control tasks of daily life in a human being is a challenge today. First, … Finally, a suitable learning model that allows adapting neural ... -
Development and validation of a software application to analyze thermal and kinematic multimodels of Stirling engines
(Elsevier, 2023-09)The work developed presents, for the first time, a tool to analyze all the thermodynamic models used in the study and development of Stirling engines: isothermal, ideal adiabatic and adiabatic with losses, combined ... -
Turbulence suppression by cardiac-cycle-inspired driving of pipe flow.
(Nature Publishing Group UK, 2023-09-06)Flows through pipes and channels are, in practice, almost always turbulent, and the multiscale eddying motion is responsible for a major part of the encountered friction losses and pumping costs1. Conversely, for pulsatile ...