Thermal and Fluids Engineering

1-D transient numerical modeling of counter-current two-phase stratified flow inside a medium temperature solar linear collector

A 1D+1D Model of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells Based on an Optimized Kinetic Mechanism for Ethanol Electro-Oxidation Involving Free and Adsorbed Intermediate Species

A fast reconstruction algorithm for time-resolved X-ray tomography in bubbling fluidized beds

A four-step reduced mechanism for syngas combustion

A genetically optimized kinetic model for ethanol electro-oxidation on Pt-based binary catalysts used in direct ethanol fuel cells

A local anisotropic adaptive algorithm for the solution of low-Mach transient combustion problems

A multipurpose reduced chemical-kinetic mechanism for methanol combustion

A multipurpose reduced mechanism for ethanol combustion

A novel approach for modeling bubbling gas-solid fluidized beds

A novel formulation for unsteady counterflow flames using a thermal-conductivity-weighted coordinate

A novel methodology for simulating vibrated fluidized beds using two-fluid models

A numerical study of external building walls containing phase change materials (PCM)

A settling tube to determine the terminal velocity and size distribution of fluidized nanoparticle agglomerates

A simple model to predict the performance of a H2O&-LiBr absorber operating with a microporous membrane

Absolute Instability of Light Jets Emerging from Circular Injector Tubes

Absorption solar cooling systems using optimal driving temperatures

Advances in scalable gas-phase manufacturing and processing of nanostructured solids: A review

Agglomeration detection by pressure fluctuation analysis during Cynara cardunculus L. gasification in a fluidized bed

Aiming factor to flatten the flux distribution on cylindrical receivers

Air Conditioning Rsing an Air-Cooled Single Effect Lithium Bromide Absorption Chiller: Results of a Trial Conducted in Madrid in August 2005

Air conditioning in the region of Madrid, Spain: an approach to electricity consumption, economics and CO2 emissions

Ammonia-Lithium Nitrate Absorption Chiller with an Integrated Low-Pressure Compression Booster Cycle for Low Driving Temperatures

An apparent viscosity function for shear thickening fluids

An exergy-based study on the relationship between costs and environmental impacts in power plants

An explicit reduced mechanism for H₂ -air combustion

An innovative solar-driven directly air-cooled LiBr-H2O absorption chiller prototype for residential use

Analysis of representative elementary volume and through-plane regional characteristics of carbon-fiber papers: diffusivity, permeability and electrical/thermal conductivity

Analysis of the Influence of Temperature and Gas Humidity on the Performance Stability of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

Analysis of the Vortex Street Generated at the Core-Bypass Lip of a Jet-Engine Nozzle

Analyzing the pyrolysis kinetics of several microalgae species by various differential and integral isoconversional kinetic methods and the Distributed Activation Energy Model

Approximate Analytic Temperature Distribution and Efficiency for Annular Fins of Uniform Thickness

Assessment of biomass energy sources and technologies: The case of Central America

Atmospheric Low Swirl Burner Flow Characterization with Stereo PIV

Avances en la ingeniería de tuberías y en el control del flujo (II): estudio del Reynolds de transición mediante herramientas caótico-deterministas

Bioenergy production in Central America: integration of sweet sorghum into sugar mills

Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Ammonia-Lithium Nitrate Solution in a Plate Generation

Bubble Characteristics in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed with a Rotating Distributor

Bubble formation in a planar water-air-water jet: Effects of the nozzle geometry and the injection conditions

Bubbling and jetting regimes in planar coflowing air-water sheets

Bulk oscillation and velocity wave propagation in a vibrated fluidized bed at minimum fluidization conditions

Buoyancy effects on objects moving in a bubbling fluidized bed

CCD image sensor induced error in PIV applications

CONDUCTIVE HEATING OF A CONFINED GAS

COP optimisation of a triple-effect H2O/LiBr absorption cycle under off-design conditions

Can Low Frequency Accelerometry Replace Pressure Measurements for Monitoring Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds?

Characterisation of the particle-wall frictional forces in pseudo-2D fluidized beds using DEM

Characterization of TiO2 nanoparticles fluidization using X-ray imaging and pressure signals

Characterization of flow-induced vibrations in gas-solid fluidized beds: elements of the theory

Characterization of granular phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications in fluidized beds

Circulation of an object immersed in a bubbling fluidized bed

Combining the lumped capacitance method and the simplified distributed activation energy model to describe the pyrolysis of thermally small biomass particles

Comparison between two-fluid model simulations and particle image analysis & velocimetry (PIV) results for a two-dimensional gas-solid fluidized bed

Comparison of Euler-Euler and Euler-Lagrange Methods for Liquid Jet Injection in a Crossflow

Comparison of bubble eruption models with two-fluid simulations in a 2D gas-fluidized bed

Comparison of simplified heat transfer models and CFD simulations for molten salt external receiver

Compressible-gas two-fluid modeling of isolated bubbles in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed and comparison with experiments

Controlled formation of bubbles in a planar co-flow configuration

Corrected quasi one-dimensional heat conduction equation for the analysis of straight fins of uniform profile

Cost-based design optimization of the heat exchangers in a parabolic trough power plant

Critical comparison of electrostatic effects on hydrodynamics and heat transfer in a bubbling fluidized bed with a central jet

Critical radius for hot-jet ignition of hydrogen-air mixtures

Critical slot size for deflagration initiation by hot products discharge into hydrogen air-atmospheres

Cynara cardunculus L. gasification in a bubbling fluidized bed: The effect of magnesite and olivine on product gas, tar and gasification performance

Defluidization and agglomeration of a fluidized bed reactor during Cynara cardunculus L. gasification using sepiolite as a bed material

Dense-Phase Velocity Fluctuation in a 2-D Fluidized Bed

Detecting regime transitions in gas-solid fluidized beds from low frequency accelerometry signals

Determination of heliostat canting errors via deterministic optimization

Determination of moisture diffusion coefficient in transformer paper using thermogravimetric analysis

Development of a new method to estimate the incident solar flux on central receivers from deteriorated heliostats

Development of an empirical wall-friction model for 2D simulations of pseudo-2D bubbling fluidized beds

Diffusion of dissolved CO2 in water propagating from a cylindrical bubble in a horizontal Hele-Shaw cell

Diffusion-Flame Ignition by Shock-Wave Impingement on a Hydrogen-Air Supersonic Mixing Layer

Diffusion-flame flickering as a hydrodynamic global mode

Dissolution of a CO2 spherical cap bubble adhered to a flat surface in air-saturated water

Distributor Effects near the Bottom region of Turbulent Fuidized Beds

Distributor performance in a bubbling fluidized bed: Effects of multiple gas inlet jet and bubble generation

District cooling network connected to a solar power tower

Dripping dynamics and transitions at high Bond numbers

Drop Tower Setup to Study the Diffusion-driven Growth of a Foam Ball in Supersaturated Liquids in Microgravity Conditions

Dynamic modeling of a particle/supercritical CO2 heat exchanger for transient analysis and control

Dynamic performance and stress analysis of the steam generator of parabolic trough solar power plants

Dynamics of large turbulent structures in a steady breaker

Dynamics of thermal ignition of spray flames in mixing layers

Economic and Environmental Considerations for Zero-emission Transport and Thermal Energy Generation on an Energy Autonomous Island

Effect of an external electric field on the propagation velocity of premixed flames

Effect of sepiolite bed material on gas composition and tar mitigation during C-cardunculus L. gasification

Effect of summer weather conditions on the environmental impact of a power plant in the UAE

Effect of the NH3-LiNO3 concentration and pressure in a fog-jet spray adiabatic absorber

Effect of the equivalence ratio, Damköhler number, Lewis number and heat release on the stability of laminar premixed flames in microchannels

Effect of the number of TGA curves employed on the biomass pyrolysis kinetics results obtained using the Distributed Activation Energy Model

Effect of vertical vibration and particle size on the solids hold-up and mean bubble behavior in a pseudo-2D fluidized bed

Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of local saturation and application to macroscopic continuum models

Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution

Electrolysis-driven and pressure-controlled diffusive growth of successive bubbles on microstructured surfaces

Energy and Carbon Emission Savings in Spanish Housing Air-Conditioning Using Solar Driven Absorption System

Energy and exergy analysis in an asphalt plant's rotary dryer

Energy and exergy analysis of an absorption power cycle

Energy and exergy analysis of an adiabatic water-LiBr absorption system

Energy storage with PCM in fluidized beds: Modeling and experiments

Epsilon-NTU relationships in parallel-series arrangements: Application to plate and tubular heat exchangers

Estimation and experimental validation of the circulation time in a 2D gas-solid fluidized beds

Evaluating the accuracy of the Distributed Activation Energy Model for biomass devolatilization curves obtained at high heating rates

Evaluation of Mass Absorption in LiBr Flat-Fan Sheets

Evaluation of the Maximum Evaporation Rate in Small-Scale Indirect Solar Dryers.

Exergy Optimization in a Steady Moving Bed Heat Exchanger

Exergy and Economic Evaluation of a Hybrid Power Plant Coupling Coal with Solar Energy

Exergy recovery from solar heated particles to supercritical CO2

Experimental Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficients in the High Temperature Generator of a Double Effect Absorption Machine for the Lithium Bromide/Water Mixture

Experimental Characterization of the Spreading and Break-up of Liquid Flat-Fan Sheets Discharging in a Low-Density Atmosphere and Application to BrLi Solutions

Experimental Observations on the Different Mechanisms for Solid Ejection in Gas-Fluidized Beds

Experimental analysis and simulation of the performance of a box-type solar cooker

Experimental analysis of oscillatory premixed flames in a Hele-Shaw cell propagating towards a closed end

Experimental analysis of solar thermal storage in a water tank with open side inlets

Experimental and computational study on the bubble behavior in a 3-D fluidized bed

Experimental and numerical study of the periodic bubbling regime in planar co-flowing air-water sheets

Experimental assessment of ammonia adiabatic absorption into ammonia-lithium nitrate solution using a flat fan nozzle

Experimental assessment of vapour adiabatic absorption into solution droplets using a full cone nozzle

Experimental characterisation of a novel adiabatic membrane-based micro-absorber using H2O-LiBr

Experimental comparison of two solar-driven air-cooled LiBr/H2O absorption chillers: Indirect versus direct air-cooled system

Experimental determination of the diffusion coefficient of water in transformer solid insulation

Experimental diagnosis of the influence of operational variables on the performance of a solar absorption cooling system

Experimental energy and exergy analysis of a novel water-LiBr absorption system

Experimental evaluation of a direct air-cooled lithium bromide-water absorption prototype for solar air conditioning

Experimental evaluation of a low-power direct air-cooled double-effect LiBr-H2O absorption prototype

Experimental evaluation of ammonia adiabatic absorption into ammonia-lithium nitrate solution using a fog jet nozzle

Experimental heat transfer coefficients between a surface and fixed and fluidized beds with PCM

Experimental heat transformer monitoring based on linear modelling and statistical control process

Experimental performance comparison of three flat sheet membranes operating in an adiabatic microchannel absorber

Experimental performances of a LiBr-water absorption facility equipped with adiabatic absorber=Performance expérimentale d'une installation au LiBr /eau muni d'un absorbeur adiabatique

Experimental quantification of the particle-wall frictional forces in pseudo-2D gas fluidised beds

Experimental study of a thermochemical compressor for an absorption/compression hybrid cycle

Experimental study of fixed and fluidized beds of PCM with an internal heat exchanger

Experimental study of honeycomb SiCSi under highly concentrated solar flux: Evolution of its thermo-radiative properties

Experimental study on the characteristic mixing time of solids and its link with the lateral dispersion coefficient in bubbling fluidized beds

Experimental study on the motion of isolated bubbles in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed

Experimental study on the motion of solids around an isolated bubble rising in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed

Experimental validation of a theoretical model for a direct-expansion solar-assisted heat pump applied to heating

Explicit analytic prediction for hydrogen-oxygen ignition times at temperatures below crossover

Extension of the characteristic equation to absorption chillers with adiabatic absorber=Extension d'une équation caractéristique aux refroidisseurs à absorption munis d'absorbeurs adiabatiques

Fatigue analysis of the steam generator of a parabolic trough solar power plant

Feasibility study of a new concept of solar external receiver: Variable velocity receiver

Feedback PID-like fuzzy controller for pH regulatory control near the equivalence point

Field-receiver model validation against Solar Two tests

Finite Point Low Mach Number Algorithm for Unsteady Nonisothermal Flows: Application to the Study of Reactive Flow Past a Thin Catalytic Wire

Flammability conditions for ultra-lean hydrogen premixed combustion based on flame-ball analyses

Flat plate thermal solar collector efficiency: Transient behavior under working conditions part II: Model application and design contributions

Flat plate thermal solar collector efficiency: Transient behavior under working conditions. Part I: Model description and experimental validation

Flow patterns of external solar receivers

Flow temporal reconstruction from non time-resolved data part II: practical implementation, methodology validation, and applications

Flow temporal reconstruction from non-time-resolved data part I: mathematic fundamentals

Fluidization of Group B Particles with a Rotating Distributor

Fluidized bed with a rotating distributor operated under defluidization conditions

Fly ash characterization from Cynara cardunculus L. gasification

Formation of corner waves in the wake of a partially submerged bluff body

Formation regimes of vortex rings in negatively buoyant starting jets

Four-step and three-step systematically reduced chemistry for wide-range H₂ -air combustion problems

Fully coupled TFM-DEM simulations to study the motion of fuel particles in a fluidized bed

Gas bubble evolution on microstructured silicon substrates

Gas interchange between bubble and emulsion phases in a 2D fluidized bed as revealed by two-fluid model simulations

Gas-Solid Conversion in Fluidised Bed Reactors

Generation and droplet size distribution of tracer particles for PIV measurements in air, using propylene glycol/water solution

Generation of Microbubbles with Applications to Industry and Medicine

Global Mode Analysis of Axisymmetric Bluff-Body Wakes: Stabilization by Base Bleed

Global instability of low-density jets

Global stability analysis of the axisymmetric wake past a spinning bullet-shaped body

Global stability of stretched jets: Conditions for the generation of monodisperse micro-emulsions using coflows

Heat transfer and thermal stresses in a circular tube with a non-uniform heat flux

How Dr. Malcom M. Cross may have tackled the development of "An apparent viscosity function for shear thickening fluids"

Hydration and dehydration cycles in polymer electrolyte fuel cells operated with wet anode and dry cathode feed: A neutron imaging and modeling study

Hydroelastic effects during the fast lifting of a disc from a water surface

Hydrogen-air mixing-layer ignition at temperatures below crossover

Ignition time of hydrogen-air diffusion flames

Ignition, Liftoff, and Extinction of Gaseous Diffusion Flames

Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study

Improvement of the simulation of fuel particles motion in a fluidized bed by considering wall friction

Improving the efficiency of gas turbine systems with volumetric solar receivers

Influence of the resolution of forest cover maps in evaluating fragmentation and connectivity to assess habitat conservation status

Influence of the solution heat exchanger efficiency on the performance of a single effect H2O-LiBr adiabatic absorption system

Influence of the steam generator on the exergetic and exergoeconomic analysis of solar tower plants

Initial stage of plate lifting from a water surface

Initiation of reactive blast waves by external energy sources

Instantaneous performance of solar collectors for domestic hot water, heating and cooling applications

Interaction of Oblique Shocks and Laminar Shear Layers

Interaction of a planar reacting shock wave with an isotropic turbulent vorticity field

Investigation of particle-wall interaction in a pseudo-2D fluidized bed using CFD-DEM simulations

Investigation of the collapse of bubbles after the impact of a piston on a liquid free surface

Is it possible to design a portable power generator based on micro-solid oxide fuel cells? A finite volume analysis

Laminar Counterflow Parallel-Plate Heat Exchangers: Exact and Approximate Solutions

Laminar counterflow parallel-plate heat exchangers: An exact solution including axial and transverse wall conduction effects

Laminar flow past a spinning bullet-shaped body at moderate angular velocities

Large-activation-energy analysis of gaseous reacting flow in pipes

Lateral solids meso-mixing in pseudo-2D fluidized beds by means of TFM simulations

Leakiness of Pinned Neighboring Surface Nanobubbles Induced by Strong Gas-Surfice Interaction

Limits and Accuracy of the Stereo LFC-PIV Technique and Its Application to Flows of Industrial Interest

Linear theory for the interaction of small-scale turbulence with overdriven detonation

Lithium Bromide Absorption Machines: Pressure Drop and Mass Transfer in Solutions Conical Sheets

MULTIPLE COMBUSTION REGIMES AND PERFORMANCE OF A COUNTER-FLOW MICROCOMBUSTOR WITH POWER EXTRACTION

Maldistribution detection in bubbling fluidized beds

Maximizing the power block efficiency of solar tower plants: Dual-pressure level steam generator

Maximum Entropy Estimation of the Bubble Size Distribution in Fluidized Beds

Measurement of laminar burning velocity of ethanol-air mixtures at elevated temperatures

Minimum ignition energy of methanol-air mixtures

Mixed steady convection at a horizontal axisymmetric stagnation point

Modeling and experiments of energy storage in a packed bed with PCM

Modeling and performance analysis of an absorption chiller with a microchannel membrane-based absorber using LiBr-H2O, LiCl-H2O, and LiNO3-NH3

Modeling of the anode of a liquid-feed DMFC: Inhomogeneous compression effects and two-phase transport phenomena

Modeling of the bubbling process in a planar co-flow configuration

Modeling of the pyrolysis of biomass under parabolic and exponential temperature increases using the distributed activation energy model

Modeling the Heat Transfer Coefficient Between a Surface and Fixed and Fluidized Beds With Phase Change Material

Modeling the thin-layer drying process of Granny Smith apples: Application in an indirect solar dryer

Motion of a large object in a bubbling fluidized bed with a rotating distributor

Moving bed syngas conditioning: Modelling

Multiple Delta t Strategy for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Error Correction, Applied to a Hot Propulsive Jet

Multiresolution Analysis of a Drying Process in a Rotating-Distributor Fluidized Bed

Negatively Buoyant Starting Jets

New flat-fan sheets adiabatic absorber for direct air-cooled LiBr/H2O absorption machines: Simulation, parametric study and experimental results

New method for COP optimization in water-and air-cooled single and double effect LiBr-water absorption machines = Nouvelle méthode pour l'optimisation du COP dans les machines à absorption au LiBr / eau à effet simple ou à double effet refroidies à l'eau et à l'air

Nonlinear orthotropic model of the inhomogeneous assembly compression of PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers

Nonlinear resonances of an idealized saccular aneurysm

Novel Approach to Characterize Fluidized Bed Dynamics Combining Particle Image Velocimetry and Finite Element Method

Numerical Study of the Direct Pressure Effect of Acoustic Waves in Planar Premixed Flames

Numerical analyses of deflagration initiation by a hot jet

Numerical model of solar external receiver tubes: Influence of mechanical boundary conditions and temperature variation in thermoelastic stresses

Numerical simulation of axisymmetric drop formation using a coupled level set and volume of fluid method

Numerical solution of one-dimensional transient, two-phase flows with temporal fully implicit high order schemes: Subcooled boiling in pipes

Numerical study of the effect of pressure and temperature on the fluidization of solids with air and (supercritical) CO2

On the Breakup of Bubbles at High Reynolds Numbers and Subcritical Weber Numbers

On the Limitations of Volume-Averaged Descriptions of Gas Diffusion Layers in the Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

On the Recirculation of Ammonia-Lithium Nitrate in Adiabatic Absorbers for Chillers

On the economics of stand-alone renewable hybrid power plants in remote regions

On the effect of operating conditions in liquid-feed direct methanol fuel cells: A multiphysics modeling approach

On the effects of assembly compression on the performance of liquid-feed DMFCs under methanol-limiting conditions: A 2D numerical study

On the heat transferred to the air surrounding a semi-infinite inclined hot plate

On the ill-posedness of the g-function model for the thermal response of geothermal heat exchangers

On the minimum fluidization velocity in 2D fluidized beds

On the pressure drop in Plate Heat Exchangers used as desorbers in absorption chillers

On the thinnest steady threads obtained by gravitational stretching of capillary jets

One-Step Reduced Kinetics for Lean Hydrogen-Air Deflagration

One-dimensional modelling of the thinning of particulate suspensions near pinch-off

Open Innovation: leadership and values

Optimization of the feeding ports location in a fluidized bed combustor based on Monte Carlo simulations of fuel particles motion

Optimum Hot Water Temperature for Absorption Solar Cooling

Oscillatory Flow about a Cylinder Pair

Oscillatory behavior of the bed bulk and the bubbles in a vertically vibrated pseudo-2D bed in bubbling regime

Oscillatory flow about a cylinder pair with unequal radii

PCM in the heat rejection loops of absorption chillers. A feasibility study for the residential sector in Spain

Parametric study of a novel organic Rankine cycle combined with a cascade refrigeration cycle (ORC-CRS) using natural refrigerants

Parametric study of operating and design variables on the performance of a membrane-based absorber

Performance analysis of an absorption double-effect cycle for power and cold generation using ammonia/lithium nitrate

Physics of Beer Tapping

Pinch-off in forced and non-forced, buoyant laminar jet diffusion flames

Plunging to spilling transition in corner surface waves in the wake of a partially submerged vertical plate

Prediction of flow instabilities in an atmospheric low swirl burner using urans models

Premixed flame extinction in narrow channels with and without heat recirculation

Proposing a master's programme on participatory integrated assessment of energy systems to promote energy access and energy efficiency in Southern Africa

Proyeto de investigación INVISO: industrialización de viviendas sostenibles = INVISO research Project: Industrialization of Sustainable Houses

Pyrolysis and Combustion Kinetic Study and Complementary Study of Ash Fusibility Behavior of Sugarcane Bagasse, Sugarcane Straw, and Their Pellets-Case Study of Agro-Industrial Residues

Pyrolysis of Cynara cardunculus L. samples - Effect of operating conditions and bed stage on the evolution of the conversion

Pyrolysis of biofuels of the future: Sewage sludge and microalgae - Thermogravimetric analysis and modelling of the pyrolysis under different temperature conditions

Pyrolysis of sewage sludge in a fixed and a bubbling fluidized bed - Estimation and experimental validation of the pyrolysis time

Quantitative evaluation of PIV peak locking through a multiple Delta t strategy: relevance of the rms component

Radial correlation length across magnetic islands: Simulations and experiments

Ray tracing of a solar collector designed for uniform yearly production

Recent advances in understanding of flammability characteristics of hydrogen

Regimes of boundary-layer ignition by heat release from a localized energy source

Regimes of spray vaporization and combustion in counterflow configurations

Reversal of gulf stream circulation in a vertically vibrated triangular fluidized bed

Revised receiver efficiency of molten-salt power towers

Saving assessment using the PERS in solar power towers

Segregation of equal-sized particles of different densities in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed

Sheath vaporization of a monodisperse fuel-spray jet

Simplified model of a dual-media molten-salt thermocline tank with a multiple layer wall

Simplified model of a membrane-based rectangular micro-desorber for absorption chillers

Simulation and evaluation of a hybrid concentrating-solar and wind power plant for energy autonomy on islands

Simulation and experimental study on the motion of non-reacting objects in the freeboard of a fluidized bed

Simulation of a supersonic hydrogen-air autoignition-stabilized flame using reduced chemistry

Simulation of object motion in a bubbling fluidized bed using a Monte Carlo method

Simultaneous assessment of peak-locking and CCD readout errors through a multiple Delta t strategy

Single camera volumetric shadowgraphy system for simultaneous droplet sizing and depth location, including empirical determination of the effective optical aperture

Single-effect absorption refrigeration cycle boosted with an ejector-adiabatic absorber using a single solution pump

Solar cooker of the portable parabolic type incorporating heat storage based on PCM

Solar energy captured by a curved collector designed for architectural integration

Solar flux distribution on central receivers: A projection method from analytic function

Solar heating by radiant floor: Experimental results and emission reduction obtained with a micro photovoltaic-heat pump system

Solar heating system's performance for the heating season 2011/12 in Madrid

Solar multiple optimization of a DSG linear Fresnel power plant

Solar space heating and cooling for Spanish housing: potential energy savings and emissions reduction

Solar-powered single-and double-effect directly air-cooled LiBr-H2O absorption prototype built as a single unit

Solid conduction effects and design criteria in moving bed heat exchangers

Some Topics on the Physics of Bubble Dynamics in Beer

Stability and dynamics of the laminar wake past a slender blunt-based axisymmetric body

Stagnant regions estimation in fluidized beds from bed surface observations

Standard Deviation of Absolute and Differential Pressure Fluctuations in Fluidized Beds of Group B Particles

Statistical accuracy of scattered points filters and application to the dynamics of bubbles in gas-fluidized beds

Study of ash deposition during coal combustion under oxyfuel conditions

Study on Ash Deposition under Oxyfuel Combustion of Coal/Biomass Blends

Studying the Reduction of Water Use in Integrated Solar Combined-Cycle Plants

Subcooled and saturated boiling of ammonia-lithium nitrate solution in a plate-type generator for absorption machines

Switching to efficient technologies in traditional biomass intensive countries: The resultant change in emissions

Techno-economic analysis of integrating sweet sorghum into sugar mills: The Central American case

Temporal stability of free liquid threads with surface viscoelasticity

The Hydrogen-Air Burning Rate Near the Lean Flammability Limit

The Impact of Reaction on the Effective Properties of Multiscale Catalytic Porous Media: A Case of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

The Social Perspective on the Renewable Energy Autonomy of Geographically Isolated Communities: Evidence from a Mediterranean Island

The chemistry involved in the third explosion limit of H₂-O₂ mixtures

The differential diffusion effect of the intermediate species on the stability of premixed flames propagating in microchannels

The effect of temperature on the distributor design in bubbling fluidized beds

The effect of viscous relaxation on the spatiotemporal stability of capillary jets

The history effect in bubble growth and dissolution. Part 1. Theory

The history effect on bubble growth and dissolution. Part 2. Experiments and simulations of a spherical bubble attached to a horizontal flat plate.

The impact of vorticity waves on the shock dynamics in core-collapse supernovae

The large-activation-energy analysis of extinction of counterflow diffusion flames with non-unity Lewis numbers of the fuel

The large-activation-energy analysis of strain-induced extinction

The necking time of gas bubbles in liquids of arbitrary viscosity

The nonlinear states of viscous capillary jets confined in the axial direction

The role of fuel mixing on char conversion in a fluidized bed

The role of non-thermal electrons in flame acceleration

The role of separation of scales in the description of spray combustion

The slowly reacting mode of combustion of gaseous mixtures in spherical vessels. Part 1: transient analysis and explosion limit

The slowly reacting mode of combustion of gaseous mixtures in spherical vessels. Part 2: buoyancy-induced motion and its e ect on the explosion limits

The structure of lean hydrogen-air flame balls

The structure of the absolutely unstable regions in the near field of low-density jets

Theoretical model and experimental validation of a direct-expansion solar assisted heat pump for domestic hot water applications

Theoretical study of direct vapor generation for energy integrated solar absorption machines

Theory of interactions of thin strong detonations with turbulent gases

Thermal design guidelines of solar power towers

Thermal energy storage in a fluidized bed of PCM

Thermal explosions in spherical vessels at large Rayleigh numbers

Thermal, mechanical and hydrodynamic analysis to optimize the design of molten salt central receivers of solar tower power plants

Thermo-chemical storage for renewable energies based on absorption: Getting a uniform injection into the grid

Thermo-economic optimization of molten salt steam generators

Thermo-mechanical modelling of solar central receivers: effect of incident solar flux resolution.

Thermochemical conversion of C. cardunculus L. in nitrate molten salts

Thermodynamic and economic assessment of a new generation of subcritical and supercritical solar power towers

Three-dimensional two-fluid modeling of a cylindrical fluidized bed and validation of the Maximum Entropy method to determine bubble properties

Through-the-Membrane Transient Phenomena in PEM Fuel Cells: A Modeling Study

Transition to convection in single bubble diffusive growth

Turbulence Generation by Shock-Acoustic-Wave Interaction in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Two-phase heat transfer model of a beam-down gas-solid fluidized bed solar particle receiver

Two-stage double-effect ammonia/lithium nitrate absorption cycle

Unfolding the Phase Space Structure of Noisy Time Series by means of Angular First-Return Maps

Unsteady response of hydrogen and methane flames to pressure waves

Usability Assessment of ASIBOT: A Portable Robot to Aid Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Variable-density jet flows induced by concentrated sources of momentum and energy

Viscous stability analysis of jets with discontinuous base profiles

Voidage Distribution around Bubbles in a Fluidized Bed: Influence on Throughflow

Wall conduction effects in laminar counterflow parallel-plate heat exchangers

Wide band energy analysis of fluidized bed pressure fluctuation signals using a frequency division method

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