Departament de Física

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  • Independent learning as class preparation to foster student-centred learning in first-year engineering students 

    Pejuan Alcobé, Arcadi; Antonijuan Rull, Josefina (2019-11-08)
    Article
    Open Access
    In first-year engineering students, a common teacher-centred, passive learning and deficient secondary educational backgrounds are often observed. However, there is a problematic difference whether the individual background ...

  • Efficient aeroelastic analysis of wind loads on inflatable hangars 

    Flores Le Roux, Roberto Maurice; Ortega, Enrique (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Wind loads play a crucial role in inflatable structures. Unfortunately, design loads from safety regulations grossly overestimate the real aerodynamic forces. Thus, a more accurate estimation of wind loads is desirable. ...

  • Analysis of weather impact on flight efficiency for Stockholm Arlanda Airport arrivals 

    Lemetti, Anastasia; Polishchuk, Tatiana; Sáez García, Raúl; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2019)
    Conference report
    Restricted access - publisher's policy
    Analysis of punctuality of airport arrivals, as well as identification of causes of the delays within transition airspace, is an important step in evaluating performance of the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) Air Navigation ...

  • Evaluation of flight efficiency for Stockholm Arlanda Airport arrivals 

    Lemetti, Anastasia; Polishchuk, Tatiana; Sáez García, Raúl; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Analysis of punctuality of airport arrivals, as well as identification of causes of the delays within transition airspace, is an important step in evaluating performance of the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) Air Navigation ...

  • A numerical investigation of wind tunnel model deformations caused by the twin-sting support system 

    Flores Le Roux, Roberto Maurice; Ortega, Enrique; Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio (2009)
    External research report
    Open Access
    This work presents a wing deformation analysis of a twin-sting-mounted commercial aircraft model. Twin-sting arrangements minimize flow disturbances around the model fuselage and tail; on the other hand, they cause important ...

  • A 3D low-order panel method for unsteady aerodynamic problems 

    Ortega, Enrique; Flores Le Roux, Roberto Maurice; Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio (2010)
    External research report
    Open Access
    An unsteady low-order panel method for three-dimensional subsonic analyses is presented. The method, which is based on well-established techniques in computational aerodynamics, is intended to achieve a cost-effective ...

  • RWAKE - System Specification Document 

    Ruiz Navarro, Sergio; Hernández Herrera, Laura; Melgosa Farrés, Marc; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Busto, Javier; Steen, Meiko; Ceccaroni, Marta (2016-10-06)
    External research report
    Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
    This report is the Deliverable 2.1 R-WAKE System Specification Document, which provides the compilation of high-levelR-Wake requirements, resulting from Task 2.1 activities. More specifically, this ...

  • Advanced methodology for wind resource assessment near hydroelectric dams in complex mountainous areas 

    Yang, Lin; Rojas Gregorio, José Ignacio; Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de (2019-11-05)
    Article
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    To increase renewable energy generation in some hydroelectric dams, a solution consisting in installing wind turbines close to dams is proposed. Indeed, dam surroundings are prone to benefit from wind speed-up effect, extra ...

  • Evidence for a dynamics crossover and its implication on the freezing temperature determination of relaxor ferroelectrics 

    Levit Valenzuela, Rafael; Ochoa Guerrero, Diego A.; Martínez García, Julio Cesar; García García, José Eduardo (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2019-09-27)
    Article
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    Relaxor ferroelectrics are characterized by a broadened and dispersive permittivity peak in their temperature-dependent dielectric spectra. Although several models have been proposed to explain the nature of these materials, ...

  • Shape optimization in aeronautical applications using neural networks 

    Daring, Alan; Flores Le Roux, Roberto Maurice; Bugeda Castelltort, Gabriel; Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio (2007-06)
    External research report
    Open Access
    An optimization methodology based on neural networks was developed for use in 2D optimal shape design problems. Neural networks were used as a parameterization scheme to represent the shape function, and an edge-based ...

  • R-WAKE - System design document 

    Ruiz Navarro, Sergio; Busto, Javier; Tarragó, Joan; Melgosa Farrés, Marc; Steen, Meiko; Dokic, Jelena; Vickery, Keith (2017-02-27)
    External research report
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    This report is the Deliverable 3 . 1 R - WAKE System Design Document , resulting from WP3 activities. It provides details on the design of the resear ch methodology, simulation fram ework and validation activities, as ...

  • R-WAKE - System Release 1 Document 

    Busto, Javier; Tarragó, Joan; Ruiz Navarro, Sergio; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Melgosa Farrés, Marc; Dokic, Jelena; Steen, Meiko (2017-04-16)
    External research report
    Restricted access - author's decision
    This report is the Deliverable 4.1 R-WAKE Release 1 Document, resulting from half of WP4 activities. It provides details on the early results regarding the simulation framework and validation activities, as described in ...

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