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)

1. 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)
2. A. F. Miguel, M. Aydin (2011) Ocean exergy and energy conversion systems. International Journal of Exergy (accepted October 2011)
3. 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
4. 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)
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. A. F. Miguel (2010) Natural flow systems: acquiring their constructal morphology. International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics 5 (3), 230-241
9. 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
10. A. F. Miguel, (2010) Dendritic Structures for Fluid Flow: laminar, turbulent and constructal design. Journal of Fluids and Structures 26, 330-335
11. 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
12. 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
13. A. F. Miguel, A. Silva (2010) Solar irradiation in diffusely enclosures with partitions. Applied Energy 87, 836-842
14. A. F. Miguel (2009) Constructal theory of pedestrian Dynamics. Physics Letters A 373, 1734–1738
15. A. F. Miguel, A. Bejan (2009) The principle that generates dissimilar patterns inside aggregates of organisms. Physica A 388, 727-731
16. A. F. Miguel (2009) Quantitative study of the CO2 emission to atmosphere from biological scaling laws. International Journal of Global Warming 1, 129-143
17. A. F. Miguel, A. H. Reis (2009) Moisture intrusion in viscoelastic porous media: induced-stress and deformation. Journal of Thermal Science 13, 47-54
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. A. F. Miguel (2008) An analytic approach to capillary pressure in tree-shaped networks. The Open Thermodynamics Journal 2, 39-43
23. A. F. Miguel (2008) Constructal design of solar energy based systems for buildings. Energy and Buildings 40, 1020-1030
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. A. F. Miguel, A. H. Reis (2006) Transport and deposition of fine mode particles in porous filters. Journal of Porous Media 8, 731-744
28. 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