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Polytechnic University of Catalonia

EducationBarcelona, Spain
About: Polytechnic University of Catalonia is a education organization based out in Barcelona, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Finite element method & Population. The organization has 16006 authors who have published 45325 publications receiving 949306 citations. The organization is also known as: UPC - BarcelonaTECH & Technical University of Catalonia.


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TL;DR: The results obtained show an increase in the frequency of accidents over time, and the training of professional people involved in transportation seems to be of major importance.

155 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of three-dimensional smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations of the process of coalescence of white dwarfs, and discuss the subsequent evolution of the resulting system and the possible astrophysical scenarios of interest.
Abstract: We present the results of three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations of the process of coalescence of white dwarfs. We follow in detail the initial phase of the merging for several masses of the primary and the secondary of the binary system. Special attention has been paid to the issue of whether or not thermonuclear runaway occurs during the process of merging. We find that although relatively high temperatures are attained during the most violent phase of the merging process, the thermonuclear flash is rapidly quenched. The total mass lost by the system is also relatively small (of the order of 0.5% at most) except for the most massive primaries for which it is still small (∼2.2%). Consequently, a heavy accretion disk around the primary is formed. We also discuss the subsequent evolution of the resulting system and the possible astrophysical scenarios of interest.

155 citations

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TL;DR: A new phase noise model in the complex domain is introduced and validated by using both simulated and real interferograms, where a novel noise reduction algorithm, which is not based on a windowing process and without the necessity of phase unwrapping, is addressed.
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of interferometric phase noise reduction in synthetic aperture radar interferometry. A new phase noise model in the complex domain is introduced and validated by using both simulated and real interferograms. This noise model is also derived in the complex wavelet domain, where a novel noise reduction algorithm, which is not based on a windowing process and without the necessity of phase unwrapping, is addressed. The use of the wavelet transform allows to maintain the spatial resolution in the filtered phase image and prevents to filter low coherence areas. By using both, simulated as well as real interferometric phase images, the performance of this algorithm, in terms of noise reduction, spatial resolution maintenance, and computational efficiency, is reported and compared with other conventional filtering approaches.

155 citations

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TL;DR: The science and technology for positioning and navigation has experienced a dramatic evolution and the observation of celestial bodies for navigation purposes has been replaced today by the use of electromagnetic waveforms emitted from reference sources.
Abstract: Accurately determining one's position has been a recurrent problem in history [1]. It even precedes the first deep-sea navigation attempts of ancient civilizations and reaches the present time with the issue of legal mandates for the location identification of emergency calls in cellular networks and the emergence of location-based services. The science and technology for positioning and navigation has experienced a dramatic evolution [2]. The observation of celestial bodies for navigation purposes has been replaced today by the use of electromagnetic waveforms emitted from reference sources [3].

155 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a mixture of equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP), high pressure torsion (HPT) and a combination of both in order to find out the evolution on the microstructural homogeneity for each of the processes and their combination.
Abstract: Pure Cu of 99.98 wt.% purity has been processed at room temperature by diverse techniques of severe plastic deformation, namely equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP), high pressure torsion (HPT) and a combination of both in order to find out the evolution on the microstructural homogeneity for each of the processes and their combination. Starting with a grain size of ∼60 μm, severe plastic deformation has been introduced to the material while maintaining the sample dimensions unchanged through the processes of ECAP and HPT. A significant decrease in grain size was observed by transmission electronic microscopy (TEM). Microtensile and microhardness tests were carried out on the deformed material in the three processing conditions. A significant improvement of the tensile strength was promoted with admissible penalization on ductility.

155 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Frede Blaabjerg1472161112017
Carlos M. Duarte132117386672
Ian F. Akyildiz11761299653
Josep M. Guerrero110119760890
David S. Wishart10852376652
O. C. Zienkiewicz10745571204
Maciej Lewenstein10493147362
Jordi Rello10369435994
Anil Kumar99212464825
Surendra P. Shah9971032832
Liang Wang98171845600
Aharon Gedanken9686138974
María Vallet-Regí9571141641
Bonaventura Clotet9478439004
Roberto Elosua9048154019
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Performance
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023129
2022379
20212,313
20202,429
20192,427