This paper presents an application and extension of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to account for stochastic input variables. More in particular, a comparative study is carried out among well-known and ...
[EN] This research develops a framework to assist wind energy developers to select the optimum deployment site of a wind farm by considering the Round 3 available zones in the UK. The framework includes optimization ...
Poulton, Luke; Rybdylova, Oyuna; Sazhin, Sergei S.; Crua, Cyril; Qubeissi, Mansour; Elwardany, Ahmed E.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-07-28)
[EN] A model for heating and evaporation of mono- and multi-component droplets, based on analytical solutions to the
heat transfer and species diffusion equations in the liquid phase, is summarised. The implementation of ...
[EN] A multilevel modular DC DC power conversion topology based on cascaded H-Bridge converters in a double II configuration is presented. The topology is intended to interconnect large power DC networks. A two level control ...
[EN] A new approach to modelling the interaction between droplets and the carrier phase is suggested. The new model is
applied to the analysis of a spray injected into a chamber of quiescent air, using an Eulerian-Lagrangian ...
[EN] Building progressive collapse is currently one of the hottest topics in the structural engineering field. Most of the research carried out to date on this topic has been focused on the structural analysis of the failure ...
Turner, Jack; Sykes, Dan; De Sercey, Guillaume; Stetsyuk, Viacheslav; Gold, Martin; Pearson, Richard; Crua, Cyril(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-07-28)
[EN] In a fuel injector at the end of the injection, the needle descent and the rapid pressure drop in the nozzle leads to
discharge of large, slow-moving liquid structures. This unwanted discharge is often referred as ...
[EN] Designing future ultra-high efficiency, ultra-low emission engines requires an in depth understanding of the multiscale,
multi-phase phenomena taking place in the combustion chamber. The performance of the fuel ...
Da Silva, Estelina Lora; Skelton, J. M.; Rodríguez-Hernández, P.; Muñoz, A.; Santos, M. C.; Martínez-García, D.; Vilaplana Cerda, Rosario Isabel; Manjón, Francisco-Javier(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-10-20)
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We report a comparative theoretical study of the Pnma and R3m phases of Sb2S3, Bi2S3, and Sb2Se3 close to ambient pressure. Our enthalpy calculations at 0 K show that at ambient pressure the R3m (tetradymite-like) ...
Dupeux, Florine; Santiago Cuéllar, Julia; Betz, Katja; Twycross, Jamie; Park, Sangyoung; Rodriguez, Lesia; González Guzmán, Miguel; Jensen, Malene Ringkjobing; Krasnogor, Natalio; Blackledge, Martin; Holdsworth, Michael; Cutler, Sean R.; Rodríguez Egea, Pedro Luís; Marquez, Jose Antonio(EMBO Press, 2011-10-19)
[EN] Abscisic acid (ABA) is a key hormone regulating plant
growth, development and the response to biotic and abiotic
stress. ABA binding to pyrabactin resistance (PYR)/
PYR1-like (PYL)/Regulatory Component of Abscisic ...
Krynkin, Anton; Umnova, Olga; Sánchez Pérez, Juan Vicente; Chong, Alvin Yung Boon; Taherzadeh, Shahram; Attenborough, Keith(Acoustical Society of America, 2011)
The acoustical performances of regular arrays of cylindrical elements, with their axes aligned and parallel to a ground plane, have been investigated through predictions and laboratory experiments. Semi-analytical predictions ...
[EN] We propose an adaptive scheme to reduce communication overhead caused by data movement by selectively storing the diagonal blocks of a block-Jacobi preconditioner in different precision formats (half, single, or ...
Poh, Norman; Chan, Chi Ho; Kittler, Josef; Marcel, Sébastien; McCool, Christopher; Aragonés Rúa, Enrique; Alba Castro, Jose Luis; Villegas, Mauricio; Paredes Palacios, Roberto; Struc, Vitomir; Pavesic, Nikola; Salah, Albert Ali; Fang, Hui; Costen, Nicholas(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-12)
[EN] Person recognition using facial features, e.g., mug-shot images, has long been used in identity documents. However, due to the widespread use of web-cams and mobile devices embedded with a camera, it is now possible ...
[EN] Shelf life is an important quality trait for many fruit, including
tomatoes. We report that enrichment of anthocyanin, a
natural pigment, in tomatoes can significantly extend shelf
life. Processes late in ripening ...
Cordero Cucart, Maria Teresa(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-07-19)
[ES] Los virus de plantas poseen la capacidad de parasitar células vegetales y poner a su disposición la maquinaria celular de la planta para la síntesis de sus propias proteínas. Aprovechando esta capacidad, la ingeniería ...
Rougé, C.; Harou, J.; Pulido-Velazquez, M.; Matrosov, E.; Garrone, P-; Marzano, R.; Lopez-Nicolas,A.; Castelletti, A.; Rizzoli, A.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-05)
[EN] The advent of smart metering is set to revolutionize many aspects of the relationship between water utilities and their customers, and this includes the possibility of using time-varying water prices as a demand ...
Buitrago, Manuel; Sagaseta, Juan; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2020-02-01)
[EN] The risk of structural failure of buildings can be significant during construction. Temporary adjustable telescopic steel shores or props are commonly used in building construction. The failure of shores is sudden and ...
Cordero-Cucart, María Teresa; Rosado, A.; Majer, Eszter; Jaramillo Rosales, Alfonso; Rodrigo Tarrega, Guillermo; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio(American Chemical Society, 2018-10)
[EN] Due to autotrophic growing capacity and extremely rich secondary metabolism, plants should be preferred targets of synthetic biology. However, developments in plants usually run below those in other taxonomic groups. ...
Contreras-García, J.; Izquierdo-Ruiz, F.; Marqués, M.; Manjón, Francisco-Javier(International Union of Crystallography, 2020-03)
[EN] Chemical nomenclature is perceived to be a closed topic. However, this work shows that the identification of polyanionic groups is still ambiguous and so is the nomenclature for some ternary compounds. Two examples, ...
[EN] The intrinsic properties of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) make them ideal candidates for tissue engineering applications. Efforts have been made to control MSC behavior by using material systems to engineer synthetic ...