Dr. Antonio
Ferreira Miguel
Department of Physics
University of Evora, Portugal
Associate Professor
Email: afm@uevora.pt
Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Wageningen, Netherlands
M.Sc., University of Evora, Portugal
B.Sc., University of Evora, Portugal
Publications (Selected)
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D.
Allori, G. Bartoli, A. F. Miguel (2011) Wind tunnel similitude criteria for
fluid flow in macro-porous materials. Int. J. Fluid Mechanics Research(accepted November 2011)
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A. F. Miguel, M. Aydin
(2011) Ocean exergy and energy conversion systems. International Journal of
Exergy (accepted October 2011)
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A. F. Miguel (2011) The physics principle of the generation of
flow configuration. Comment on “The constructal law and the evolution of
design in nature” by Bejan & Lorente. Physics of Life Reviews. 8, 243-244
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A. Serrenho, M. Aydin, A. F. Miguel (2011) Simulation and
characterization of multi-phase flow and particle transport in porous media.
Journal of Porous Media (accepted June 2011)
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A. F. Miguel (2011) The physics principle of the generation of
flow configuration. Comment on “The constructal law and the evolution of
design in nature” by Bejan & Lorente. Physics of Life Reviews. 8, 243-244
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A. Serrenho, A. F. Miguel (2011) Fluid flow and solid/fluid
suspensions flow in 3-D packed beds of spheres:
the effect of periodicity of fixed beds. Defect and Diffusion Forum 315, 871-876
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M. B. Acikgoz, Baris Akay, A. F. Miguel, M. Aydin (2011) Airborne
pathogens transport in an aircraft cabin, Defect and Diffusion Forum 312,
865-870
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A. F. Miguel (2010) Natural
flow systems: acquiring their constructal morphology. International Journal of
Design & Nature and Ecodynamics 5 (3), 230-241
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A. F. Miguel, (2010) Fluid flow in tree-shaped constructal
networks: porosity, permeability and inertial parameter. Defect
and Diffusion Forum Journal 297-301, 408-412
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A. F. Miguel, (2010) Dendritic Structures for Fluid Flow: laminar,
turbulent and constructal design. Journal of Fluids and Structures 26, 330-335
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A. F. Miguel, (2010) Unifying theory for natural and man-made flow systems:
an application to design of porous material for particulate control. Defect
and Diffusion Forum Journal 297-301, 413-421
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A. F. Miguel (2010) Carbon dioxide emissions and other
environmental indicators: contribution to the study of the European situation
between 1990 and 2005. Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 2, 81–95
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A. F. Miguel, A. Silva (2010) Solar irradiation in diffusely
enclosures with partitions. Applied Energy 87, 836-842
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A. F. Miguel (2009) Constructal theory of pedestrian Dynamics.
Physics Letters A 373, 1734–1738
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A. F. Miguel, A. Bejan (2009) The principle that generates
dissimilar patterns inside aggregates of organisms. Physica A 388, 727-731
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A. F. Miguel (2009) Quantitative study of the CO2 emission to
atmosphere from biological scaling laws. International Journal of Global
Warming 1, 129-143
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A. F. Miguel, A. H. Reis (2009) Moisture intrusion in viscoelastic
porous media: induced-stress and deformation. Journal of Thermal Science 13,
47-54
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A. Serrenho, A. F. Miguel (2009) Simulation and characterization
of high porosity media for aerosol particle processing – a numerical study.
Journal of Porous Media 12, 1129-1138
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A. F. Miguel, A. H. Reis, M. Melgão (2009) Urban indoor-outdoor
aerosol measurements in Portugal and the global warming scenario. International
Journal of Global Warming 1, 356-367
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P. Canhoto, A. H. Reis, A. F. Miguel (2009) Performance analysis
of an endoreversible heat pump system for optimal air-ground or water
environmental exergy potential utilization. International Journal of Energy
Research 33, 205–210
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M. Aydin, A. H. Reis, A. F. Miguel (2009) Effect of suspended
particles on convective heat transfer enhancement. International Journal of
Energy Research 33, 180-185
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A. F. Miguel (2008) An analytic approach to capillary pressure in
tree-shaped networks. The Open Thermodynamics Journal 2, 39-43
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A. F. Miguel (2008) Constructal design of solar energy based
systems for buildings. Energy and Buildings 40, 1020-1030
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G. Balik, A. H. Reis, M. Aydin, A.
F. Miguel (2008) Behaviour of
submicrometer particles in periodic alveolar airflows. European
Journal of Applied Physiology 102,
677–683
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A. F. Miguel, A. Serrenho (2007) On
the experimental evaluation of the permeability in porous media using a gas
flow method. Journal of Physics D 40,6824-6828
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R. Teixeira, A. F.
Miguel (2007) Particle deposition in random fibrous
porous materials: effect of acoustic fields, fibres distribution and porosity, Journal
of Mechanical Science and Technology 21,
1881-1885
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A. F. Miguel, A. H. Reis (2006) Transport and deposition of fine
mode particles in porous filters. Journal of Porous Media 8, 731-744
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A. F. Miguel (2006) Constructal pattern formation in stony corals,
bacterial colonies and plant roots under different hydrodynamics conditions, Journal
of Theoretical Biology 242,
954-961