Pedro Ferreira Sardinha Diogo de Matos — 2020

Since the genesis of the motor vehicle in the 19th century, automobile competition has been one of the key tools for testing and developing new technologies, before they were mass produced and commercialized. In this context, the technologies to be developed today are increasingly linked to the envi…

Bruno Miguel Beja Guerra — 2020

New advancements in manufacturing methods such as 3D printing, allow the construction and projection of novel metallic foams suitable for the improvement of heat exchangers performance that outperform those typically used. The Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS) are great candidates for the foam…

André Filipe Rocha Oliveira — 2020

Experimental activities are essential in the aerospace industry, with wind tunnels being the most used devices in the validation of concepts and design. Therefore, this work aims to endow the Aerospace Engineering Laboratory at Instituto Superior Técnico with an aerodynamic balance capable of measur…

Beatriz Dos Santos Lourenço — 2020

When implementing survival models for two or more times-to-event separately, some information may be getting mislaid, especially if these are correlated. For that reason, here we focus on jointly modelling two times-to-event: overall survival time (OST) and disease free time (DFT), using copula func…

Damilola Femi-Oyewole — 2020

This thesis covered the case of the best and most practical carbon pricing approach in Africa with focus on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. The Main tool used in this study was the MACBETH multicriteria decision tool, developed by Jean-Marie De Corte, Jean-Claude Vansnick and Prof Carlos A. B…

Gonçalo Gil Dos Santos Cunha — 2020

The continuous search for more efficient heat exchangers - in particular, those with liquid coolant - promotes, depending on the working conditions, the occurrence of boiling. Consequently, the performance, integrity of the equipment components and coolant can be compromised. The present work was h…

Pedro Daniel Canuto Rijo — 2020

In this work, numerical simulations were performed to study the fuel flexibility of a small-scale combustor operating in the flameless combustion mode. The combustor geometrical characteristics and the operating conditions, such as thermal power and equivalence ratio (φ), were kept constant for all …

Jakub Marek Starczewski — 2020

Road lighting design requires extraction of crucial parameters i.e. lighting situations from the data (both road and lighting infrastructure) regarding the area intended for the retrofit. As the commercially available software is not capable of batch processing geospatial data, this process is curre…

Laura Anna Ostrowska — 2020

Globally, substantial volumes of bio-waste are generated every day, causing severe environmental concerns, occupying soil, and demanding financial support for its management. An ingenious way of handling this bio-waste challenge is the expansion of modern and original methods focused on the alterati…

Shanlin Chen — 2020

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool for environment impact assessment and decision making in energy systems, meanwhile it’s also complicated as it requires detailed information, time and computing resources. Many studies have been conducted to make LCA simpler in the categories of impact as…