The energetic formulation of a rate-independent system assumes that the evolution of the system is driven by two scalar-valued functions: the storage energy functional and the dissipation pseudo-potential. The evolution ...

Significant high levels of available waste tires in Brazil, which reached approximately 473 thousand tons in 2015, offer an attractive potential for their use as fuel in advanced thermal conversion processes. Technologies ...

The application of anaerobic digestion (AD) as a core treatment technology in industrial plants concentrates important advantages on an environmental and energetic basis, associating wastewater pollution control with ...

This dissertation presents the energetic diagnostic of micro and small retail companies from Santa Maria-RS, allowing to identify the most important reasons of waste, energetic eficientization potential, as well as its ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder in childhood and can significantly affect a child’s personal and social development and academic achievement. Taking into account ...

The time-keeping properties bestowed by oscillatory behavior on functional rhythms represent an evolutionarily conserved trait in living systems. Mitochondrial networks function as timekeepers maximizing energetic output ...

We derive the variational formulation of a gradient damage model by applying the energetic formulationof rate-independent processes and obtain a regularized formulation of fracture. The model exhibits dif-ferent behaviour ...

The global energy matrix is mainly concentrated in non-renewable sources, however, this scenario is constantly renewing, in the sense of making renewable sources as the main energy sources. Agricultural and forest biomass ...