Recent Submissions

  • CFD Studies of the convective heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops in geometries applied to water cooling channels of the crotch absorbers of ALBA synchrotron light source 

    Grozavu, Stefania; Raush Alviach, Gustavo Adolfo; Casas Bullich, Joan; Colldelram, Cales; Quispe, Marcos (2022)
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    Currently, the storage ring vacuum chambers of ALBA are protected by 156 crotch absorbers made of copper and Glidcop. After more than 10 years of operation as a thirdgeneration light source, the ALBA II project arose, ...
  • Gears or rotors-three approaches to design of working units of hydraulic machines 

    Stryczek, Jaroslaw; Bednarczyk, S.; Codina Macià, Esteban; Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier; Ivanovic, Lozica; Matejic, Milos (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2019)
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    The gerotor pump has many advantages over other hydraulic pumps, such as high reliability, compactness, lower noise in running conditions etc. Considering the increasingly stringent regulations in the field of environmental ...
  • Three dimensional simulation of gerotor with deforming mesh by using OpenFOAM 

    Castilla López, Roberto; Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier; Raush Alviach, Gustavo Adolfo; Codina Macià, Esteban (2018)
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    A new-born design and construction of a mini gerotor metering pump with trochoidal-teeth is presented. The technical innovation in this new-born design is to study the fluid dynamic effects of interteeth and lateral ...
  • Numerical study in a mini trochoidal-gear pump with multi-meshing contact points 

    Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier; Castilla López, Roberto; Buza Barambones, Alexis; Khamashta Shahin, Munir Andrawes; Codina Macià, Esteban (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)
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    A numerical study in a mini trochoidal-gear pump based on an ingenious strategy to adapt the background mesh to the profiles shape and a new boundary condition is presented. The strategy achieves a final background mesh ...
  • Development of an app for compressible flow “App4Comp” 

    Adam Alberdi, Andrés; Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015)
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    In this paper is discussed the development and operation of a new Android App made through Google’s platform App Inventor 2. This App is focused on solving classic problems related to compressible flow, dealing with the ...