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  • Urbina, Rafael J.; Rojas-Solorzano, L.; Blanco, Armando J. (Second International Tunnel Safety Forum, Lyon, April 2009, 2009-04)
    This work aims to the modeling of CO transport in one section considered critical of the Boqueron I tunnel, located on the outskirts of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, with a scenario where vehicles are stopped ...
  • Arevalo, Angela; Montilla, Gonzalo; Rojas-Solorzano, L.; Reyes, Miguel; Marín, Juan (CIMENICS MF-185-2006, 2006)
    The transient free surface flow within a 1:30 model of the intake (penstock) to Power House II of Guri Hydro-Power Plant (Venezuela) is studied. The geometry of the model includes a reservoir of 4.31 meters upstream the ...
  • Hernández, Franz H.; Blanco, Armando J.; Rojas-Solorzano, L. (Proceedings of FEDSM2008 8th Symposium on Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics August 17-20, Jacksonville, FL, 2008-08-17)
    Liquid-solid two-phase flows are found in numerous operations in the chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical and many other industries. In numerous cases, the mixture or slurry that flows is composed by a suspension of solid ...
  • Riera-Ortiz, Jaime; Zeppieri, Suzana; Rojas-Solorzano, L.; Derjani, Sylvana (2011)
    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is employed to simulate the air-water system in a spouted column with a draft tube. Numerical results of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations using the k-s and k-w two-equation ...
  • Pineda, Saira F.; Blanco, Armando J.; Rojas-Solorzano, L. (Proceedings of FEDSM2009 ASME 2009 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting August 2-5, 2009, Vail, Colorado USA, 2009-08-02)
    Flows in rivers, floodplains and coastal zones are very complex due to uneven bottom topography and irregular boundaries of the flow domain. In particular, when the flow shows strong gradients in water depth and velocity ...
  • Rojas-Solórzano, Luis R. (Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, 2017-07-13)
  • F., Vittori; Rojas-Solorzano, L.; Pavageau, M. (Memorias del Congreso ASME USB 2011: IX CONGRESO ANUAL DE INGENIERÍA ASME USB 2011 03, 04 Y 05 de junio, 2011, Caracas - Venezuela, 2011)
    Impinging plane jets are flow configurations with applications in many fields. The ability of several turbulence models to simulate this kind of flow was assessed. The numerical results were compared with the data of Cooper ...
  • Sagintayev, Zhanay (Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, 2018-04-13)
    Climatic and anthropogenic distortions have impacted the enviroment and increased the probabilities of disaster events worldwide, including Kazakhstan. Water resources in Central Asia are generated at high mountains with ...
  • Tsiantis, Andreas; Sumbekova, Sholpan; Papathanasiou, Thanasis D. (Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, 2019-02-06)
    In this paper we present the results of a computational study of diffusion across disordered flake composites in which the flakes are misaligned with respect to the direction of bulk diffusion. We evaluate the effect of ...
  • Roldan, Constantino; Pieretti, Pedro; Rojas-Solorzano, L. (2010)
    The research consisted in a conceptual and basic design of a prototype Stirling engine with the purpose of taking advantage of the solar radiation to produce electric energy. The work began with a bibliography review ...
  • Corrales-Barallobre, C.; Martínez-Huen, R.; Alvarez, L.; Polanco, G.; Rojas-Solorzano, L. (FEDSM2000 FORUM ON FLUID MEASURENMENT AND INTRUMENTATION BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ON JUNE 11-15, 2000, 2000-06-11)
    The design and test of a flow deflector gate used for controlling the flow deviation toward the primary tank in a flow-meter calibration facility is presented. The deflector gate is pneumatically controlled and permits the ...
  • Corrales-Barallobre, C.; Martínez-Huen, R.; Alvarez, Luis; Polanco, G.; Rojas-Solorzano, L. (FEDSM2000 FORUM ON FLUID MEASURENMENT AND INTRUMENTATION BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ON JUNE 11-15, 2000, 2000-06-11)
    The design and set up of a large-scale flowmeter calibration and test facility is presented. The facility was designed to handle flowmeters with diameters between 6” and 14”, flow rates up to 0.3 m3/s and to give results ...
  • Corrales-Barallobre, C.; Martínez-Huen, R.; Alvarez, Luis; Polanco, G.; Rojas-Solorzano, L. (FEDSM2000 FORUM ON FLUID MEASURENMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ON JUNE 11-15, 2000, 2000-06-11)
    The design and test of the distribution manifold for a large-scale flowmeter calibration facility is presented. The design was intended to have an air-free flow operation and a free-surface flow-like towards the downstream ...
  • Taibassarova, Zh. (International Scientific and Practical Conference "Geosystemic approach to the study of the natural environment of the Republic of Kazakhstan", 2018-04-13)
    The SNNP «Burabay» is the famous touristic place in Kazakhstan, where the frequent climate change and anthropogenic activities has a significant impact in land cover change. Especially, there is significant impact on ...
  • Hara, Toru; Konarov, Aishuak; Kurmanbayeba, Indira; Bakenov, Zhumabay (2015-01)
    Lithium/sulfur (Li/S) battery is a promising candidate for the next generation rechargeable battery since the negative electrode, lithium, and the cathode, sulfur, have the highest theoretical capacities of 3862 and of ...
  • Saliev, Timur; Kulsharova, Gulsim; Akhmetova, Alma; Nurgozhin, Talgat; Whitby, Ray D.L. (The 15th IUMRS-International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA 2014), 2014-08)
    A cryogel (polymethyl methacrylate) has been chosen as a basis for new type of wound dressings, where incorporated silver and gold nanoparticles do provide effective antibacterial protection [1]. This function will be ...
  • Hara, Toru; Moldabayeva, Azhar; Korzhynbayeva, Kuralay; Melisova, Malika; Kurmanbayeva, Indira; Bakenov, Zhumabay (IMIE 2015, 2015-06)
    In this paper, economical comparison is conducted among non-toxic, non-flammable rechargeable batteries for integrating renewable energy into electrical grids. Two types of recently developed non-toxic aqueous batteries, ...
  • Rojas-Solorzano, L. (Proceedings of FEDSM’98 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting June 21-25, 1998, Washington, DC, 1998-06-21)
    The effects on the boundary layer receptivity in airfoil cascade flow caused by superposed disturbances are studied using an energetic approach. The separated terms in the Fluctuating Kinetic Energy (FKE) budget are ...
  • Saginbekov, Sain; Yestemirova, Gaukhar (Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, 2018-05-12)
    A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network comprised of sensor nodes and a designated device called a sink to which nodes transmit their sensed data. Nodes are low-cost, battery-powered devices with limited memory and ...
  • Bagheri, Alireza; Sofotasios, Paschalis C.; Tsiftsis, Theodoros A.; Ho-Van, Khuong; Loupis, Michael I.; Freear, Steven; Valkama, Mikko (2016)
    Energy detection has been for long constituting the most popular sensing method in RADAR and cognitive radio systems. The present paper investigates the sensing behaviour of an energy detector over Hoyt fading channels, ...