Production of ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) has been studied for several decades, especially for applications on the aerospace industry that require materials for extreme environments. Traditional methods of ...

Electroporation, or electropermeabilization, is a physical phenomenon that occurs when a biological cell is subjected to an external electric field. This technique is typically used in laboratory or medical settings when ...

Phase changes materials (PCMs) have been studied as passive cooling alternative for different conditions. Due to the US Army need for the development of a passive cooling system alternative for pulsed power applications, ...

This research consists in the application of an exergy analysis method to the fishmeal production process. A mathematical expression for the enthalpy of fish as function of temperature and weight fraction of proteins, fats ...

Physical problems involving moving heat sources can be encountered in many industrial applications during material processing, including cutting, drilling, welding, heat treatment, and surface alloying, to name a few. ...

The Regional Ocean Modeling System has been implemented in the San Juan bay estuary, Puerto Rico, to investigate quantitatively the ocean currents at a harbor scale with tidal, wind and river forcing and to develop a ...

The aerospace industry has focused on the development of high performance polyimide foams because these materials are known for their thermal and acoustic insulation properties. Tortuosity is defined as a parameter that ...

A damage detection location scheme for structures is developed with the use of singular value decomposition and a matrix norm. Damage is represented as a reduction in stiffness producing a set of linear differential ...

Chemical dealloying can be used to fabricate porous metals by removing one or more of the species out of an alloy. Generally, a corrosive electrolyte is used to selectively dissolve a noble element. Alloy concentration, ...

Throughout this work, bird-strike events are studied using three approaches in LSDYNA: Lagrangian, Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian (ALE), and Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). A simple one-dimensional beam centered impact ...