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Assessment of Biomass and Biochar of Maritime Pine as a Porous Medium for Water Retention in Soils by Santos, Rodrigo V., Mendes, Miguel A. A., Alexandre, Carlos, Carrott, Manuela Ribeiro, Rodrigues, Abel, Ferreira, Ana F.

“…Pinewood biomass in Portugal can be considered a major source of biochar for soil physical, chemical, and biological edaphic amendment. This work intended to…”
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Evaluation of effective thermal conductivity of porous foams in presence of arbitrary working fluid by Mendes, Miguel A.A., Ray, Subhashis, Trimis, Dimosthenis

“…The Effective Thermal Conductivity (ETC) of open-cell porous foams can be either measured using experimental techniques or predicted from the detailed…”
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The Addition of Particles to an Alternative Jet Fuel by Ferrão, Inês A. S., Mendes, Miguel A. A., Moita, Ana S. O. H., Silva, André R. R.

“…The expansion of the research on nanoscale particles demonstrates several advantages in terms of stability and an increased surface area to volume ratio…”
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Numerical simulation of complete liquid–vapour phase change process inside porous media: A comparison between local thermal equilibrium and non-equilibrium models by Alomar, Omar Rafae, Mendes, Miguel A.A., Trimis, Dimosthenis, Ray, Subhashis

“…The Complete liquid-vapour phase change process inside an asymmetrically heated porous channel has been numerically investigated in this article, based on the…”
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Numerical study of methane TPOX within a small scale Inert Porous Media based reformer by Mendes, Miguel A.A., Pereira, José M.C., Pereira, José C.F.

“…Methane Thermal Partial Oxidation (TPOX) within a small scale Inert Porous Media (IPM) based reactor was investigated numerically in order to explore the…”
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A simple and efficient method for the evaluation of effective thermal conductivity of open-cell foam-like structures by Mendes, Miguel A.A., Ray, Subhashis, Trimis, Dimosthenis

“…The present analysis proposes an extremely simple, yet very effective, alternative for the determination of effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of open-cell…”
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Reduced Reaction Model for Secondary Gas Phase in Biomass Gasification by Martins, António R, Ferreiro, Ana Isabel, Segurado, Raquel, Mendes, Miguel A. A

“…Biomass gasification is an energy-generating process widely recognized as an efficient and sustainable technology, representing a viable alternative to the…”
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Experimental validation of simplified conduction–radiation models for evaluation of Effective Thermal Conductivity of open-cell metal foams at high temperatures by Mendes, Miguel A.A., Skibina, Valeria, Talukdar, Prabal, Wulf, Rhena, Gross, Ulrich, Trimis, Dimosthenis, Ray, Subhashis

“…In the present study, the Effective Thermal Conductivity (ETC) of open-cell metal foams at high temperatures is numerically predicted using two different…”
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Experimental and numerical determination of effective thermal conductivity of open cell FeCrAl-alloy metal foams by Wulf, Rhena, Mendes, Miguel A.A., Skibina, Valeria, Al-Zoubi, Ahmad, Trimis, Dimosthenis, Ray, Subhashis, Gross, Ulrich

“…Heat transfer in metal foams is one of the fields of particular research interest due to the possibility of imparting tailored effective thermo-physical…”
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Numerical simulation of complete liquid–vapour phase change process inside porous media using smoothing of diffusion coefficient by Alomar, Omar Rafae, Mendes, Miguel A.A., Trimis, Dimosthenis, Ray, Subhashis

“…The present paper deals with numerical simulations of complete phase change process inside porous media, based on the two-phase mixture model, using finite…”
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An improved model for the effective thermal conductivity of open-cell porous foams by Mendes, Miguel A.A., Ray, Subhashis, Trimis, Dimosthenis

“…An extension of a simplified model for the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of open-cell porous foams, that originally contained only one adjustable…”
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Experimental and numerical characterization of single-phase pressure drop and heat transfer enhancement in helical corrugated tubes by Cruz, Gonçalo G., Mendes, Miguel A.A., Pereira, Jos M.C., Santos, H., Nikulin, A., Moita, Ana S.

“…•Single-phase flow on helical corrugated tubes of different pitch.•Measurement of pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics.•3D CFD model simulations in…”
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Combustion characteristics of a single droplet of hydroprocessed vegetable oil blended with aluminum nanoparticles in a drop tube furnace by S. Ferrão, Inês A., Silva, André R.R., Moita, Ana. S.O.H., Mendes, Miguel A.A., Costa, Mário M.G.

“…[Display omitted] This study examines the burning characteristics and disruptive burning phenomena of single droplets of aluminum nanoparticles (n-Al) stably…”
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Detailed and simplified models for evaluation of effective thermal conductivity of open-cell porous foams at high temperatures in presence of thermal radiation by Mendes, Miguel A.A., Talukdar, Prabal, Ray, Subhashis, Trimis, Dimosthenis

“…Simulations of coupled conduction–radiation heat transfer through open-cell porous foams have been performed in this article in order to evaluate the effective…”
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Modelling of conduction–radiation in a porous medium with blocked-off region approach by Talukdar, Prabal, Mendes, Miguel A.A., Parida, Ritesh Kumar, Trimis, Dimosthenis, Ray, Subhashis

“…A new methodology to solve a heat transfer problem in a complex porous structure has been proposed in this work. The 3D numerical model considers combined…”
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Performance of thermal lattice Boltzmann and finite volume methods for the solution of heat conduction equation in 2D and 3D composite media with inclined and curved interfaces by Demuth, Cornelius, Mendes, Miguel A.A., Ray, Subhashis, Trimis, Dimosthenis

“…In the present study, the accuracy of predicted effective thermal conductivity of composite materials, determined by the finite volume method (FVM) and the…”
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Development of correlations for effective thermal conductivity of a tetrakaidecahedra structure in presence of combined conduction and radiation heat transfer by Patel, Vipul M., Mendes, Miguel A.A., Talukdar, Prabal, Ray, Subhashis

“…•keff,t in presence of combined conduction and radiation is numerically determined.•Effects of ks, ϕ and Tavg on keff,t are quantified and presented.•Three…”
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Numerical Investigation on the Depth Filtration of Liquid Metals: Influence of Process Conditions and Inclusion Properties by Werzner, Eric, Mendes, Miguel A. A., Ray, Subhashis, Trimis, Dimosthenis

“…In the present study, an alternative approach for the numerical investigation of short‐term depth filtration of liquid metals within ceramic foam filters (CFF)…”
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Diversity of Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha in citrus, coffee and a fragment of native forest of the state of São Paulo by Giustolin, Teresinha A, Lopes, João R S, Querino, Ranyse B, Cavichioli, Rodney R, Zanol, Kety, Azevedo Filho, Wilson S, Mendes, Miguel A

“…The population of Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha was studied in sweet citrus groves (Citrus sinensis), coffee plantations (Coffea arabica) and a semi-deciduous…”
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Experimental and numerical characterization of single-phase pressure drop and heat transfer enhancement in helical corrugated tubes by Cruz, Gonçalo G, Mendes, Miguel A. A, Pereira, Jos M. C, Santos, H, Nikulin, A, Moita, Ana S

“…International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, (2021) 121632 The internal flow in corrugated tubes of different helical pitch, covering from the laminar to…”
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