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  • Simulation of Household Refrigerators with a Flexible Numerical Tool 

    Ablanque Mejía, Nicolás; Oliet Casasayas, Carles; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David (Purdue University, 2014)
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    This work presents a flexible numerical platform to simulate a whole household refrigeration unit taking into account both the refrigeration cycle itself and the refrigerated compartments network. The methodology implemented ...

  • Numerical Model of Capillary Tubes: Enhanced Performance and Study of Non-Adiabatic Effects 

    Ablanque Mejía, Nicolás; Oliet Casasayas, Carles; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David (Purdue University, 2014)
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    In the present work a numerical model to simulate the thermal and fluid-dynamic phenomena inside non-adiabatic capillary tubes is presented. It consists of an improved version of the distributed model detailed in Ablanque ...

  • Mapping Venturi cavitation in a new closed loop facility devoted to study thermodynamic effects 

    Bermejo Plana, David; Escaler Puigoriol, Francesc Xavier; Ruiz Mansilla, Rafael (Shanghai University Press, 2019)
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    The influence of cavitation in water heating processes is still an unknown issue. To develop such knowledge, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC), in collaboration with the Spanish environmental engineering ...

  • DNS of Thermocapillary Migration of Deformable Droplets 

    Balcázar Arciniega, Néstor; Antepara Zambrano, Óscar; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Springer Nature, 2019)
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  • A Study of binary collision of GNF droplets using a conservative level-set method 

    Amani, Ahmad; Balcázar Arciniega, Néstor; Naseri, Alireza; Oliva Llena, Asensio (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2018)
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    In this study, numerical simulations of binary droplet collisions of two GNF droplets are carried out. Navier-Stokes equations are solved for fluid motion both inside and outside of the droplet using a conservative ...

  • A level-set method for mass transfer in bubble swarms 

    Balcázar Arciniega, Néstor; Antepara Zambrano, Óscar; Castro González, Jesús; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2018)
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  • Direct numerical simulation of rising bubble with path instability 

    Antepara Zambrano, Óscar; Balcázar Arciniega, Néstor; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2018)
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    Present research is focused on combining High- Performance Computing (HPC) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of two-phase flows, to study the dy- namic behavior of rising bubble whit path instabilities with moderate/high ...

  • Vapor Compression System Modelica Library for Aircraft ECS 

    Ablanque Mejía, Nicolás; Torras Ortiz, Santiago; Oliet Casasayas, Carles; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David (Purdue University, 2018)
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    This work presents a Modelica library aimed to simulate vapor compression systems at both steady and transient conditions. The simulation of these specific systems is particularly challenging ...

  • A level-set method for interfacial heat or mass transfer in two-phase flows 

    Balcázar Arciniega, Néstor; Antepara Zambrano, Óscar; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Oliva Llena, Asensio (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2018)
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    A level-set model is proposed for simulating interfacial heat or mass transfer in two-phase flows. The Navier-Stokes equations as well as the heat transfer or mass transfer equations are discretized using a finite-volume ...

  • A method for fluid-structure interaction problems with non-Newtonian fluid 

    Amani, Ahmad; Naseri, Alireza; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Oliva Llena, Asensio (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2018)
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    This paper represents a numerical method to solve fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems where the fluid exhibits a non-Newtonian Viscoelastic behaviour. Oldroyd-B constitutive equation is used to model Viscoelastic fluid. ...

  • Strategies for the heterogeneous execution of large-scale simulations on hybrid supercomputers 

    Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrey; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2018)
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    Massively-parallel devices of various architectures are being adopted by the newest supercomputers to overcome the actual power constraint in the context of the exascale challenge. This progress leads to an increasing ...

  • Second-Order Semi-Implicit Partitioned Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems 

    Naseri, Alireza; González Acedo, Ignacio; Amani, Ahmad; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David (Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE), 2018)
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    This paper is concerned with numerical solution of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving an incompressible viscous flow and an elastic structure. A second-order time accurate semi-implicit method is proposed ...

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