peer reviewed / In the following years, the building sector will have to considerably reduce its final energy demand and emissions by adopting new technologies. This paper introduces two innovative technologies capable of reducing the final energy demand of residential buildings: A Heat Pump/Organic Rankine Cycle system coupled to solar thermal col...
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peer reviewed / Liquid drops placed on substrates may vibrate, slide, take history-dependent shapes, and even detach or break up when subjected to external forces. Although CFD tools can nowadays reproduce these motions, they are affordable for at most a few drops at a time. This work provides a low-dimensional model of such drops, in which the dro...
In the last decade, robotic-mediated rehabilitation has emerged as a potential solution to improve repetitive task training. Each device in this field has a unique development history shaped by engineers’ expertise in specific programming languages or platforms. In this work we adopt an approach that tries to abstract from the final implementation ...
The use of heavier feedstocks, or even the possibility of direct conversion of crude oil into chemicals has created new challenges for the steam cracking process, as severe fouling in the different sections of steam crackers is observed then. In order to obtain a more fundamental understanding about the fouling phenomenon and its relation to feedst...
The increasing power density of electric machines for electric vehicles necessitates accurate thermal analysis in design and real-time condition monitoring through simulations with computation times not exceeding one minute. Existing thermal models are either accurate and complex while requiring large computation times or they are fast but lack acc...
Unstable or optimally growing perturbations of turbulent flows are often representative of the energy-containing coherent structures populating the flow, as for streaks in a turbulent channel. Within this framework, this work aims at studying the modal and nonmodal stability of stably stratified turbulent channel flow, assessing the influence of st...
This paper considers the steel reheating process, in which cold slabs are reheated to a temperature suitable for hot rolling operations. Temperature uniformity within the slab is very important during reheating, as non-uniformities often lead to quality concerns in the later stages of the production process. Attaining slab temperature uniformity is...
peer reviewed / This study reports efforts toward the integrated advanced manufacturing of the anti-narcoleptic drug modafinil. It showcases a holistic approach from flow synthesis to purification via continuous crystallization. The integration strategy included a necessary optimization of the reported flow synthesis for modafinil, enabling prolong...
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