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Buenos Aires – Toward Comprehensive Development and Sustainable Mobility
PublicationThis paper is introducing Buenos Aires’ achievements and challenges in implementing comprehensive development and integrating efficient and sustainable transport system within its urban structure. There are several important steps in this process starting from urban regeneration of Puerto Madero, the introduction and then implementation of a strategic plan Modelo territorial (2010) and of Buenos Aires' Plan de Movilidad Sustentable...
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Technical and Training Related Aspects of Resistance Training Using Blood Flow Restriction in Competitive Sport - A Review
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Short-Term Blood Flow Restriction Increases Power Output and Bar Velocity During the Bench Press
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Two-phase flow phenomena assessment in minichannels for compact heat exchangers using image analysis methods
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Precise Evaluation of Gas–Liquid Two-Phase Flow Pattern in a Narrow Rectangular Channel with Stereology Method
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Development of linear projecting in studies of non-linear flow. Acoustic heating induced by non-periodic sound
PublicationRównanie bilansu energii rozkłada się na sumę dwóch równań, opisujących dynamikę fali akustycznej i wywołanego przez nią ogrzewania. Nowe równanie dynamiczne stosowane jest dla opisu dźwięku nieokresowego zarówno jak okresowego. Rozpatruje się geometrię wiązkową. Omówiane są poszczególne udziały przewodnictwa cieplnego i lepkości w ogrzewaniu akustycznym. Równania stanu ośrodka propagacji są uwzględniane w najbardziej ogólnej postaci.
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Comprehensive studies on the properties of apple juice treated by non-thermal atmospheric plasma in a flow-through system
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Comparison of properties of magnetoacoustic emission and mechanical Barkhausen effects for P91 steel after plastic flow and creep
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki pogłębionej analizy sygnału szumowego efektu Barkhausena dla próbek ze stali krzemowej Fe-2%Si po deformacji plastycznej. Badane były próbki po walcowaniu na zimno powodującym odkształcenie względne w zakresie do 8%. Pierwsze podejście polegało na analizie w dziedzinie czasu widma badanego sygnału. Analiza ta została uzupełniona o analizę liczby zliczeń impulsów w funkcji napięcia progowego, zarówno...
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Heat transfer and pressure drop during flow boiling of refrigerant/oil mixture inside smooth tube
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań współczynnika przejmowania ciepła i spadku ciśnienia podczas wrzenia czystych oraz zaolejonych czynników chłodniczych (R22, R134a, R407C) wrzących w poziomej stalowej rurce.
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FPGA-Based Implementation of Real Time Optical Flow Algorithm and Its Applications for Digital Image Stabilization
PublicationAn efficient simplification procedure of the optical flow (OF) algorithm as well as its hardware implementation using the field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology is presented. The modified algorithm is based on block matching of subsets of successive frames, and exploits one-dimensional representation of subsets as well as the adaptive adjustments of their sizes. Also, an l1-norm-based correlation function requiring no...
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Preliminary results from HEDGEHOG REXUS project – A sounding rocket experiment on accelerations, vibrations and heat flow
PublicationDuring flight, a sounding rocket is subject to a unique environment - severe vibrations and substantial heat flux. In order to design payloads, precise measurement of these conditions is required. This paper presents preliminary results from HEDGEHOG REXUS Project, whose scientific goal was to characterise the thermal and dynamic environment of REXUS sounding rockets. For this purpose, two new sensors have been designed - mechanical...
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Investigation of Liquid–Gas Flow in a Horizontal Pipeline Using Gamma-Ray Technique and Modified Cross-Correlation
PublicationThis article presents the application of the radioisotope absorption method in the study of two-phase water–air flow in a horizontal pipe. The measurement principle and the test stand are briefly described. The main part of the article presents the signal analysis methods applied to data obtained from scintillation detectors. Because these signals are mostly stochastic waveforms, they were analyzed statistically using the cross-correlation...
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Improved finite element method for flow, heat and solute transport of Prandtl liquid via heated plate
PublicationIn the current study, a vertical, 3D-heated plate is used to replicate the generation of heat energy and concentration into Prandtl liquid. We discuss how Dufour and Soret theories relate to the equations for concentration and energy. In order to see how efectively particles, interact with heat and a solvent, hybrid nanoparticles are used. It does away with the phenomena of viscous dissipation and changing magnetic felds. The motivation...
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EVALUATION OF LIQUID-GAS FLOW IN PIPELINE USING GAMMA-RAY ABSORPTION TECHNIQUE AND ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING
PublicationLiquid-gas flows in pipelines appear in many industrial processes, e.g. in the nuclear, mining, and oil industry. The gamma-absorption technique is one of the methods that can be successfully applied to study such flows. This paper presents the use of thegamma-absorption method to determine the water-air flow parameters in a horizontal pipeline. Three flow types were studied in this work: plug, transitional plug-bubble,...
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Preliminary results from HEDGEHOG REXUS Project - sounding rocket experiment on accelerations, vibrations and heat flow
PublicationAs access to space conditions becomes more available, both technically and economically, scientists' interest in launching finer and more sophisticated experiments grows. This applies now more than ever to fragile by nature biological and chemical experiments. To be qualified for launch, such experiments need to be carefully tested prior to the event. The tests should represent actual launch conditions as closely and in as detailed...
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Experimental study on the selected aspects of bow thruster generated flow field at ship zero-speed conditions
PublicationThe paper presents the results of experimental study on the interaction between the bow thrusters understood as the flow field changes generated by bow tunnel thruster in deep water conditions operated as a single and twin units. The research was limited to zero-speed case for the ship dead in the water. The influence of the hull form and jet spread between the neighbouring thrusters for several combinations of the applied bow...
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Enabling a Stable High-Power Lithium-Bromine Flow Battery Using Task-Specific Ionic Liquids
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Experimental Study of Flow Rate in Hydraulic Satellite Motor with the Rotating Case at a Low Constant Rotational Speed
PublicationIn this article was described the methodology for the experimental study of flows in the prototype of a satellite hydraulic motor with a rotating body. The experimental tests of the motor were carried out at a low constant rotational speed in a wide range of pressure drop in this motor. The constant rotational speed of the motor was kept by a worm gear. Based on the test results, the leakage characteristics in the flat gaps of...
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The influence of sterilization with EnbioJet Microwave Flow Pasteurizer on composition and bioactivity of aronia and blue-berried honeysuckle juices
PublicationIn this study, fruit juices that are rich sources of anthocyanins, obtained from aronia (Am. chokeberry, Aronia melanocarpa) and blueberry honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L. var. edulis) were used to examine the preservation of plant phytochemicals and bioactivity upon sterilization -either thermal, or with an EnbioJet microwave flow pasteurizer. The chemical properties verified included determinations of anthocyanins and other...
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Electrohydrodynamic Secondary Flow and Particle Collection Efficiency in a One-sided Spike-plate Type Electrostatic Precipitator
PublicationIn this work, results of electrohydrodynamic secondary flow and particle collection efficiency measurements in an electrostatic precipitator under positive and negative voltage polarity are presented. The electrostatic precipitator had two plate collecting electrodes and a single spike discharge electrode. The spike tips were only on one side of the discharge electrode, therefore called a one-sided spike electrode. The electrohydrodynamic...
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Numerical analysis of open channel steady gradually varied flow using the simplified saint-venant equations
PublicationFor one-dimensional open-channel flow modeling, the energy equation is usually used. There exist numerous approaches using the energy equation for open-channel flow computations, which resulted in the development of several very efficient methods for solving this problem applied to channel networks. However, the dynamic equation can be used for this purpose as well. This paper introduces a method for solving a system of non-linear...
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Analysis of the bulk solid flow during gravitational silo emptying using X-ray and ECT tomography
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki pomiarów zmian koncentracji piasku bezkohezyjnego zachodzących w prostokątnym modelu silosu opróżnianym grawitacyjnie. Pomiary wykonano z zastosowaniem kontynualnego promieniowania rentgenowskiego oraz z użyciem tomografii pojemnościowej. Badania wykonano dla zróżnicowanego zagęszczenia początkowego piasku oraz różnego stopnia szorstkości ścian. Szczególny nacisk położono na zachowanie sie materiału...
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Inverse method for 2D viscous flow design problem using stream-function coordinates for axisymmetric model
PublicationOpracowano metodę odwrotną dla przepływów lepkich nieściśliwych w osiowosymetrycznej konfiguracji. Użyto współrzędnych funkcji prądu mających tą właściwość, iż możliwe jest zastapienie jednej współrzędnej geometrycznej zmienną zależną od prędkości przepływu. W związku z czym możliwe jest rozwiązanie zadania projektowego. Metodę rozwiązano numerycznie dla przypadku testowego jak i pokazano możliwości metody dla bardziej skomplikowanego...
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Simulation of unsteady flow over floodplain using the diffusive wave equation and the modified finite element method
PublicationWe consider solution of 2D nonlinear diffusive wave equation in a domain temporarily covered by a layer of water. A modified finite element method with triangular elements and linear shape functions is used for spatial discretization. The proposed modification refers to the procedure of spatial integration and leads to a more general algorithm involving a weighting parameter. The standard finite element method and the finite difference...
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COMPARISON OF PREDICTIVE METHODS FOR FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN CONVENTIONAL CHANNELS AND MINICHANNELS – THE EFFECT OF REDUCED PRESSURE
PublicationIn the paper are presented the results of follow on studies from [1]–[3] using authors own model to predict heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling. The model has been tested against a large selection of experimental data collected from various researchers to investigate the sensitivity of the in-house developed model. The collected experimental data came from various studies from literature and were conducted for the full...
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Estimation of Conservative Contaminant Travel Time through Vadose Zone Based on Transient and Steady Flow Approaches
PublicationEstimation of contaminant travel time through the vadose zone is needed for assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution, planning monitoring and remediation activities or predicting the effect of land use change or climate change on groundwater quality. The travel time can be obtained from numerical simulations of transient flow and transport in the unsaturated soil profile, which typically require a large amount of data and...
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Groundwater flow modelling of multi-aquifer systems for regional resources evaluation: the Gdansk hydogeological system, Poland
PublicationW celu oceny regionalnych zasobów gdańskiego systemu hydrogeologicznego zbudowano matematyczny model przepływu wód. Obszar badań objął około 2800 km2. Dane pozyskano z ponad 1700 otworów badawczych. Na podstawie modelu oszacowano zasoby dla wszystkich pieter wodonośnych: plejstoceńskiego, neogeńsko-paleogeńskiego i kredowego. Na podstawie analizy równania Bredehoef'a ustalono, że aktualna eksploatacja jest zbliżona do poziomu ''zrównoważonego...
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Blood Pressure Estimation Based on Blood Flow, ECG and Respiratory Signals Using Recurrent Neural Networks
PublicationThe estimation of systolic and diastolic blood pressure using artificial neural network is considered in the paper. The blood pressure values are estimated using pulse arrival time, and additionally RR intervals of ECG signal together with respiration signal. A single layer recurrent neural network with hyperbolic tangent activation function was used. The average blood pressure estimation error for the data obtained from 21 subjects...
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Comparison of predictive methods for flow boiling heat transfer in conventional channels and minichannels - the effect of reduced pressure
PublicationIn the paper are presented the results of follow on studies from [1]–[3] using authors own model to predict heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling. The model has been tested against a large selection of experimental data collected from various researchers to investigate the sensitivity of the in-house developed model. The collected experimental data came from various studies from literature and were conducted for the full...
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Experimental and numerical simulations of flow and heat transfer in heat exchanger elements using liquid crystal thermography.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono założenia oraz sposób prowadzenia eksperymentu i obliczeń numerycznych wymiany ciepła w modelu wymiennika ciepła przy użyciu termografii ciekłokrystalicznej.
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Method to solve the non-linear systems of equations for steady gradually varied flow in open channel network.
PublicationW artykule omówiono rozwiązanie systemu równań nieliniowych opisujacych przepływ ustalony wolnozmienny w sieci kanałów otwartych. Niewiadomymi są glębokości w poszczególnych przekrojach oraz natężenia przepływów w poszczególnych gałęziach systemu. Układ musi być rozwiązywany iteracyjnie. Klasyczne metody Picarda i Newtona mogą okazać się nieskuteczne ze względu na oscylacje rozwiązania w kolejnych iteracjach i związany z tym brak...
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The pollutant transport equation for a steady, gradually varied flow in an open channel network: a solution of high accuracy
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono metodę rozwiązania jednowymiarowego równania adwekcji-dyfuzji opisującego transport zanieczyszczeń w warunkach przepływu ustalonego wolnozmiennego w sieci kanałów otwartych. Zastosowano technikę dekompozycji. Zlineoryzowane równanie adwekcji-dyfuzji rozwiązano stosując całkę Duhamela, zaś równanie zacierające człon źródłowy-metodą różnic skończonych. Metoda zapewnia bardzo dużą dokładność rozwiązania nawet...
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Lax-Wendroff and McCormack Schemes for Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Gradually and Rapidly Varied Open Channel Flow
PublicationTwo explicit schemes of the finite difference method are presented and analyzed in the paper. The applicability of the Lax-Wendroff and McCormack schemes for modeling unsteady rapidly and gradually varied open channel flow is investigated. For simulation of the transcritical flow the original and improved McCormack scheme is used. The schemes are used for numerical solution of one dimensional Saint-Venant equations describing free...
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Application of subsurface vertical flow constructed wetlands to reject water treatment in dairy wastewater treatment plant
PublicationThe paper presents the effects of applying subsurface vertical flow constructed wetlands (SS VF) for the treatment of reject water generated in the process of aerobic sewage sludge stabilization in the biggest dairy wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Poland. Two SS VF beds were built: bed (A) with 0.65 m depth and bed (B) with 1.0 m depth, planted with reeds. Beds were fed with reject water with hydraulic load of 0.1 m d-1 in...
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Parametric study of fluid flow and heat transfer over louvered fins of air heat pump evaporator
PublicationTwo-dimensional numerical investigations of the fluid flow and heat transfer have been carried out for the laminar flow of the louvered fin-plate heat exchanger, designed to work as an air-source heat pump evap- orator. The transferred heat and the pressure drop predicted by simulation have been compared with the corresponding experimental data taken from the literature. Two dimensional analyses of the louvered fins with varying...
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Modelling of saturated, subcooled and post-dryout flow boiling with the energy dissipation based semi-empirical model
PublicationA comprehensive semi-empirical model for saturated, subcooled and post dryout heat transfer is presented based on considerations of energy dissipation in the flow. The fundamental hypothesis in the model is the fact that heat transfer during flow boiling can be treated as a sum of two contributions constituting the total energy dissipation in the flow, namely the energy dissipation due to the shearing flow without the bubbles and...
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Cross-Lingual Knowledge Distillation via Flow-Based Voice Conversion for Robust Polyglot Text-to-Speech
PublicationIn this work, we introduce a framework for cross-lingual speech synthesis, which involves an upstream Voice Conversion (VC) model and a downstream Text-To-Speech (TTS) model. The proposed framework consists of 4 stages. In the first two stages, we use a VC model to convert utterances in the target locale to the voice of the target speaker. In the third stage, the converted data is combined with the linguistic features and durations...
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FE-investigations of granular flow in silos using an uncoupled ALE-formulation and a non-local hypoplastic model
PublicationArtykuł omawia wyniki naporu materiału sypkiego podczas przepływu w silosach z i bez wkładek. Obliczenia wykonano wykorzystując niepołączone sformułowanie ALE na bazie prawa sprężysto-plastycznego według Druckera-Pragera. Zbadano wpływ kształtu i położenia wkładki na wielkość naporu i rodzaj przepływu.
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Quantitative estimation of volume changes of granular materials during silo flow using X-ray tomography.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań doświadczalnych nad zmianami objętościowymi materiału granulowanego podczas przepływu silosowego. Badania wykonano przy zastosowaniu tomografii rentgenowskiej. Wyniki porównano z wynikami doświadczalnymi przy zastosowaniu cyfrowej obróbki zdjęć płynącego materiału.
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Micro-modelling of shear localization during quasi-static confined granular flow in silos using DEM
PublicationThe paper deals with the quasi-static confined flow of cohesionless sand in a plane strain model silo with parallel walls and a slowly movable bottom. Numerical modelling was carried out by the discrete element method (DEM) using spheres with contact moments to approximately capture a non-uniform shape of sand particles. Different initial void ratios of sand and silo wall roughness grades were employed. Regular triangular grooves...
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Modelling of Capillary Pressure-driven Water Flow in Unsaturated Concrete Using Coupled DEM/CFD Approach.
PublicationSformułowano nowatorskie, połączone podejście do modelowania dwufazowego przepływu wody napędzanego kapilarami w nienasyconym betonie. Dzięki połączeniu metody elementów dyskretnych (DEM) z obliczeniową dynamiką płynów (CFD) w warunkach izotermicznych proces został zbadany numerycznie w mezoskali w warunkach dwuwymiarowych. Niewielkie próbki betonu o uproszczonej mezostrukturze cząstek poddano w pełni sprzężonym hydromechanicznym...
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MARKETING STRATEGY - SPACE AS A PRODUCT.ARCHITECTURE AS A MARKETING DEVICE.
PublicationSpace has its measurable financial value. From the economic point of view place can be treated as a product that fights for appearing in tourists' and investors' consciousnesses. Space - treated as the object of demand and supply - becomes an element in a marketing game. To reach its maximal value the given space should be competitive to other spaces, from which it wants to stand out. However, in the field of architecture - and...
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Bridging the Gap Between Legitimacy and Neutralisation Strategies in Sustainability Reporting
PublicationAmid global sustainability challenges, such as climate change, companies operating in different industries face increasing demands for accountability and transparency. To meet these demands, sustainability reporting (SR) has become a mainstream business practice in communicating companies’ positive and negative sustainability impacts. This short paper aims to increase our understanding of how companies may release negative information...
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Numerical analysis of the ostiomeatal complex aeration using the CFD method
PublicationWe aimed to analyse ostiomeatal complex (OMC) aeration using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method of simulation based on human craniofacial computed tomography (CT) scans. The analysis was based on CT images of 2 patients: one with normal nose anatomy and one with nasal septal deviation (NSD). The Reynolds-Average Simulation approach and turbulence model based on linear eddy viscosity supplemented with the two-equation...
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The Corporate Museum: A New Type of Museum Created as a Component of Marketing Company
PublicationA new type of museum appeared – the corporate museum. The museum institution in this instance has been used as a new marketing device for building corporate identity strategies. Their inception is not based on the existing context of a place, but appears to be integrated with the corporate identity program, exposing the company’s values and philosophy. The corporate museums are thematic, commercial buildings, owned by a particular...
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Does Post-Activation Performance Enhancement Occur during the Bench Press Exercise under Blood Flow Restriction?
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Modeling of heat and fluid flow in granular layers using high-order compact schemes and volume penalization method
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Does blood flow restriction influence the maximal number of repetitions performed during the bench press? A pilot study
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Investigation of the flow, heat and mass transfer and emissions in pulverized fuel fired boiler using physical and numerical modeling.
PublicationPraca przedstawia wykorzystanie techniki modelowania fizycznego trójwymiarowego oraz obliczeń numerycznych umożliwiających symulację rzeczywistych procesów spalania paliw stałych i gazowych w urządzeniach energetycznych. Dodatkowo wyniki obliczeń porównano z wynikami modelowania fizycznego oraz pomiarów na obiekcie rzeczywistym.
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Direct Current Atmospheric Pressure Microdischarge Generated between a Miniature Flow Helium Microjet and a Flowing Liquid Cathode
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