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Oliveira, Iran Rodrigues de; Amico, Sandro Campos; Souza, Jeferson Avila; Lima, Antonio Gilson Barbosa de
(2015)
This work aims to investigate the infiltration of a CaCO3 filled resin in fibrous porous
media (resin transfer molding process) using the PAM-RTM software. A preform of glass fiber mat (fraction 30%), with dimensions 320 ...
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Rodrigues, Michel Kepes; Brum, Ruth da Silva; Vaz, Joaquim; Rocha, Luiz Alberto Oliveira; Santos, Elizaldo Domingues dos; Isoldi, Liércio André
(2015)
The Earth-Air Heat Exchanger (EAHE) is a device used to improve the thermal condition of built environments, allowing the reduction of electrical energy consumption of traditional air conditioner systems. Fundamentally, ...
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Silva, Adriano da; Fontana, Éliton; Mariani, Viviana Cocco; Marcondes, Francisco
(2012)
Natural convection in trapezoidal cavities, especially those with two internal baffles in conjunction with an insulated floor, inclined top surface, and isothermal left-heated and isothermal right-cooled vertical walls, ...
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Souza, Jeferson Avila; Rocha, Luiz Alberto Oliveira; Amico, Sandro Campos; Vargas, Jose Viriato Coelho
(2011)
Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) is largely used for the manufacturing of high-quality composite components and the key stage during processing is the resin infiltration. The complete understanding of this phenomenon is of ...
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Kerr, Rodrigo; Wainer, Ilana Elazari Klein Coaracy; Mata, Mauricio Magalhães
(2006)
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Santos, Elizaldo Domingues dos; Silva, Fábio de Moraes Vaz da; Acunha Junior, Ivoni Carlos; Galarça, Marcelo Moraes; Isoldi, Liércio André; Rocha, Luiz Alberto Oliveira
(2012)
The present study presents large eddy simulation (LES) of forced convective heat transfer in transient, two-dimensional, incompressible turbulent flows over a pair of cylinders with two different arrangements: 1) with two ...
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Souza, Jeferson Avila; Isoldi, Liércio André; Santos, Elizaldo Domingues dos; Oliveira, Cristiano Peres; Amico, Sandro Campos
(2012)
This work focus on developing a numerical methodology for the determination of permeability of RTM reinforcements. The method allows the calculation of the three permeability components (Kxx, Kyy and Kzz) from a set of ...
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Marques, Wiliam Correa; Fernandes, Elisa Helena Leão; Monteiro, Igor Oliveira; Möller Junior, Osmar Olinto
(2008)
The Southern Brazilian Shelf (SBS) is a freshwater-influenced region, but studies on the dynamics of coastal plumes are sparse and lack in space-time resolution. Studies on the dynamics of the Patos Lagoon plume are even ...
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Martins, Inês Marina Serra; Dias, João Miguel; Fernandes, Elisa Helena Leão; Muelbert, José Henrique
(2007)
The Patos Lagoon estuary is the most important nursery ground for commercially relevant species of fish and crustaceans in the South of Brazil, maintaining fisheries that sustain 3500 fisher families throughout the Rio ...
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Ruhoff, Anderson Luis; Castro, Nilza Maria dos Reis; Risso, Alfonso
(2011)
A variety of landscape properties have been modeled successfully using topographic indices such as topog-raphic wetness index (TWI), defined as ln(a/tanβ), where a is the specific upslope area and β is the surface slope. ...
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Correia, Anderson Luis Garcia; Helbig, Daniel; Real, Mauro de Vasconcellos; Santos, Elizaldo Domingues dos; Isoldi, Liércio André
(2013)
Many elements in engineering are formed by thin plates. Hulls and decks of ships
are examples of application. These elements can have holes that serve as inspection port,
access or even to weight reduction. The presence ...
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Teixeira, Paulo Roberto de Freitas; Davyt, Djavan Perez; Didier, Eric Lionel; Ramalhais, Rúben dos Santos
(2013)
The study of ways of converting ocean wave energy into a useful one and the improvement of the existing equipment are complex engineering problems and very important issues in today’s society. In this paper, the onshore ...
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Souza, Jeferson Avila; Santos, Elizaldo Domingues dos; Isoldi, Liércio André
(2013)
Wave energy is a renewable and clean energy resource that, in a near future, may become an alternative to the more pollutant fuels. There are a number of wave energy converters prototypes and a few installed text facilities, ...
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Souza, Jeferson Avila; Vargas, Jose Viriato Coelho; Meien, Oscar Felippe von; Martignoni, Waldir Pedro
(2003)
The catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons in a FCC riser is a very complex physical and chemical phenomenon, which combines a three-dimensional, three-phase fluid flow with a heterogeneous catalytic cracking kinetics. Several ...
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Teixeira, Paulo Roberto de Freitas; Awruch, Armando Miguel
(2005)
An algorithm to simulate 3D fluid–structure interaction problems using the finite element technique is presented in this work. A two-step Taylor–Galerkin scheme and linear tetrahedra elements are employed to analyze the ...
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Teixeira, Paulo Roberto de Freitas
(2009)
A numerical simulation of the interaction between a regular wave and an immersed horizontal cylinder, whose axis is 3-radius deep, perpendicular to the direction of the wave propagation, is presented in this paper. The ...
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Souza, Jeferson Avila; Rocha, Luiz Alberto Oliveira; Amico, Sandro Campos
(SOUZA, Jeferson Avila; ROCHA, Luiz Alberto Oliveira; AMICO, Sandro Campos. Numerical simulation of the resin transport through fiber reinforcement medium. In: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – COBEM, 19., 2007, Brasília. Anais... Brasília: [s.n.], 2007. Disponível em: <http://www.abcm.org.br/anais/cobem/2007/pdf/COBEM2007-1166.pdf>. Acesso em: 25 jul. 2015., 2007)
This paper describes the numerical simulation of the RTM (Resin Transfer Molding) process applied to the modeling of the resin transport through a fibrous reinforcement. The molding volume which is to be impregnated with ...
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Teixeira, Paulo Roberto de Freitas; Awruch, Armando Miguel
(2000)
A numerical algorithm to simulate 3-D incompressible flows of viscous fluids employing the finite element method is presented in this work. Space and time discretization of the complete set of differential equations were ...
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Savicki, Darci Luiz; Vielmo, Horácio Antonio
(2009)
It is carried out a numerical study of the three-dimensional temperature and velocity fields in a cylindrical horizontal thermal tank during the process of water circulation. The numerical simulations were made using an ...
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Gonçalves, Rafael Almeida; Teixeira, Paulo Roberto de Freitas; Didier, Eric Lionel
(2012)
The vortex-induced vibration (VIV) phenomenon has drawn the attention of researchers in Engineering for several decades. An example is the riser used for petroleum exploration, in which it is subjected to marine flows that ...