• Turbulence suppression by cardiac-cycle-inspired driving of pipe flow. 

  Scarselli, Davide; López-Alonso, José Manuel; Varshney, Atul; Hof, Bjoern (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 ...

• Arrow-shaped elasto-inertial rotating waves. 

  López-Alonso, José Manuel; Altmeyer, Sebastian (The Royal Society, 2023-03-13)

  We present direct numerical simulations of the Taylor– Couette flow of a dilute polymer solution when only the inner cylinder rotates and the curvature of the system is moderate (η = 0.77). The finitely extensible nonlinear ...

• Stably stratified Taylor–Couette flows. 

  López-Alonso, José Manuel; López, Juan Manuel; Marques Truyol, Francisco (The Royal Society, 2023-03-01)

  Stably stratified Taylor–Couette flow has attracted much attention due to its relevance as a canonical example of the interplay among rotation, stable stratification, shear and container boundaries, as well as its ...

• Assessing the performance of a renewable District Heating System to achieve nearly zero-energy status in renovated university campuses: A case study for Spain 

  Rey-Hernández, Javier M.; Rey-Martínez, Francisco J.; Yousif, Charles; Krawczyk, Dorota (Elsevier, 2023-09)

  This paper presents the implementation of a biomass-fuelled District Heating System (DHS), as a part of a deep energy renovation exercise to achieve a climate-resilient campus with minimum carbon dioxide emissions. The ...

• Modeling of an Overactuated Vehicle in Simscape Multibody for the Characterization of Suspension and Steering Actuation Systems. 

  Alcázar-Vargas, Manuel Gonzalo; Pérez-Fernández, Javier; Castillo-Aguilar, Juan Jesús; Cabrera-Carrillo, Juan Antonio (2023)

  Overactuated systems are increasingly among us. They are used for applications in vehicles, aeronautics and robotics, among others [1, 2]. These systems have a number of advantages, among which we can mention that there ...

• Sensorised child walker for the assessment of rehabilitation therapies 

  Estébanez-Campos, María Belén; Velasco García, Juan Manuel; Peña Trabalón, Alejandro; Moreno Vegas, Salvador; Nadal-Martínez, Fernando; García-Vacas, Francisco; Pérez-de-la-Blanca-Cobos, Ana María; Prado-Novoa, María; Ceccarelli, Marco[et al.] (2023-07)

  The balance and corporal position of people with movement disorders improve when walkers or devices for the mobility aid are used [1]. The ability to walk and interact with the environment causes improvements in the gait, ...

• Age influence on cut-out resistance of sutured meniscus: An experimental cadaveric study 

  Peña Trabalón, Alejandro; Estébanez-Campos, María Belén; Moreno-Vegas, Salvador; Perez-Blanca, Ana; Prado-Novoa, María (2023)

  Surgical treatment of meniscal root detachment is changing from partial meniscectomy to root reinsertion with sutures due to alterations in the knee joint contact biomechanics and early cartilage loss development. Suture ...

• Experimental method to study the evolution of the performance of solar cookers as a function of solar altitude 

  Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Xabier; Carrillo-Andrés, Antonio; Rodrigues-Ruivo, Celestino; Jiménez-Navarro, Juan Pablo (2023)

  The performance of solar cookers, mainly box cookers and panel cookers, depends on the solar altitude. To study the effect of solar altitude, using the ASAE S580.1 standard or another method that uses liquids. Many tests ...

• On the effect of deformation in a wing model on the correlation of the lift slope 

  Gutiérrez-Castillo, Paloma; Durán-Venegas, Eduardo; Konovalov-Shishov, Nikita; Del-Pino-Peñas, Carlos Manuel (2023)

  Deformed wing models with a NACA0012 airfoil are analyzed experimentally in a wind tunnel at the University of Malaga. Measurements show the influence of the level of the deformation on the lift coefficient and, therefore, ...

• Aerodynamic forces and wake structure on a 2D model of a vehicle in ground effect 

  Solís-García, Pedro; Zerzeri, Khaled; Nouailli, Mariem; Parras-Anguita, Luis; Durán-Venegas, Eduardo (2023)

  In this research we perform numerical simulations and wind tunnel experiments of a D-shaped bluff body. Different flow conditions and ground-body distances are considered to analyse the ground effect on aerodynamic forces ...

• Optical ray-tracing analysis of geometrical variations of a funnel solar cooker. 

  Carrillo-Andrés, Antonio; Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Xabier; Jiménez-Navarro, Juan Pablo; Rodrigues-Ruivo, Celestino (2023)

  Funnel solar cookers are simple, effective and have multiple advantages in practical use. The typology is wide but a large part of the existing designs are based on a 3D funnel-shaped concentrator assembled from a series ...

• Assessment of natural ventilation strategy to decrease the risk of COVID 19 infection at a rural elementary school 

  Rey-Hernández, Javier M.; Arroyo-Gómez, Yolanda; San José-Alonso, Julio F.; Rey-Martínez, Francisco J. (Elsevier, 2023)

  Natural ventilation in low-budget elementary schools is the main focus to ensure the health and comfort of its occupants, specifically when looking at the global pandemic related to SARS-COV-2. This paper presents an ...

• A CFD Modelling Approach for the Operation Analysis of an Exhaust Backpressure Valve Used in a Euro 6 Diesel Engine. 

  Martos-Ramos, Francisco Javier; Soriano García, José Antonio; Braic, Andrei; Fernández-Yáñez, Pablo; Armas, Octavio (MDPI, 2023-05-16)

  Harvesting residual thermal energy from exhaust gases with thermoelectric generators is one of the paths that are currently being explored to achieve more sustainable and environmentally friendly means of transport. In ...

• Cardiac-cycle-inspired turbulent drag reduction. 

  López-Alonso, José Manuel; Scarselli, Davide; Varshney, Atul; Hof, Bjoern (2023)

  Flows through pipes and channels are in practice almost always turbulent and the eddying motion is responsible for the major part of the encountered friction losses and pumping costs. Conversely, for pulsatile flows, in ...

• Cavity flow induced by a flexible membrane in an oscillatory channel flow: case study of syringomyelia. 

  Durán-Venegas, Eduardo; Gutiérrez-Montes, Cándido; Coenen, Wilfried; Sánchez, Antonio L.; Martínez-Bazán, Carlos (2023)

  In this work, we study the flow inside a Syringomyelia, modelled by a cavity separated from a channel with an elastic membrane. The oscillatory flow of the channel is transmitted to the cavity through the deformation of ...

• Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Active Injection Location on the Frequency Response of a Batchelor Vortex. 

  Garrido-Martin, Manuel; Blanco-Rodríguez, Francisco José; Gutiérrez-Castillo, Paloma; Del-Pino-Peñas, Carlos Manuel (2023)

  This study investigates the effect of the variation of the active control application distance on the frequency response of a Batchelor vortex. The theoretical base flow pertains to the experimental configuration of a ...

• Aerodynamic forces in deformed wings. 

  Parras-Anguita, Luis; Gutiérrez-Castillo, Paloma; Blanco-Rodríguez, Francisco José; Del-Pino-Peñas, Carlos Manuel (2023)

  In this work, we carry out a detailed study of the change in aerodynamic forces due to wing deformation in flight. The results presented are for a wing model of a fixed semi aspect ratio sAR = 4, and different chord-based ...

• Pulmonary vein flow split effects in patient-specific simulations of left atrial flow 

  Durán Venegas, Eduardo; García-Villalba, Manuel; Martínez-Legazpi, Pablo; Gonzalo, Alejandro; McVeigh, Elliot; Kahn, Andrew M.; Bermejo, Javier; Flores, Oscar; del Álamo, Juan Carlos[et al.] (Elsevier, 2023)

  Disruptions to left atrial (LA) blood flow, such as those caused by atrial fibrillation (AF), can lead to thrombosis in the left atrial appendage (LAA) and an increased risk of systemic embolism. LA hemodynamics are ...

• Frequency response of Batchelor vortex. 

  Del-Pino-Peñas, Carlos Manuel; Blanco-Rodríguez, Francisco José; Garrido-Martin, Manuel; Parras-Anguita, Luis (2023)

  We carried out a frequency response analysis of Batchelor vortex model in two different spatial configurations: punctual and annular jet. The theoretical base flow corresponds to the experimental setting of a wing model ...

• Heat transfer in thermoelectric generators for waste wnergy recovery in piston engines 

  Fernández-Yáñez, Pablo; Jarama, Javier; Martos-Ramos, Francisco Javier; Armas, Octavio (MDPI, 2023-05-04)

  This paper investigates the design of a thermoelectric generator for exhaust gases from internal combustion engines. Experimentally validated CFD methodology was employed. Different issues are studied, such as the influence ...

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