Luciano Pereira da Silva's Books

Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer with the SPH Method

A Verification of Approximations for Speed and Accuracy

By: Luciano Pereira da Silva,Messias Meneguette Junior,Carlos Henrique Marchi

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Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer with the SPH Method

A Verification of Approximations for Speed and Accuracy

By: Luciano Pereira da Silva,Messias Meneguette Junior,Carlos Henrique Marchi

This book offers an in-depth verification of numerical solutions for differential equations modeling heat transfer phenomena, where the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is used to discretize the mathematical models. Techniques described in this book aim to speed up the convergence of numerical solutions and increase their accuracy by significantly reducing the discretization error. In their quest, the authors shed light on new sources of numerical error that are specific to the SPH method and, through them, they identify the characteristics of the solutions influenced by such errors. The accuracy of numerical solutions is also improved with the application of advanced tools like the repeated Richardson extrapolation (RRE) in quadruple precision, which was adapted to consider fixed or moving particles. The book finishes with the conclusion that the qualitative and quantitative verification of numerical solutions through coherence tests and metrics are currently a methodology of excellence to treat computational heat transfer problems. Mathematicians in applied fields and engineers modelling and solving real physical phenomena can greatly benefit from this work, as well as any reader interested in numerical methods for differential equations.

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Springer Nature

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3031289463

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A History of Italian Wine

Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries

By: Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro,Paolo Tedeschi,Luciano Maffi

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A History of Italian Wine

Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries

By: Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro,Paolo Tedeschi,Luciano Maffi

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends, progressively building the current excellent reputation of Italian wine in the world market. Using unpublished sources and a vast bibliography, authors highlight the main factors favoring this evolution: public institutional support to viticulture; the birth and the growth of Italian wine entrepreneurship; the improvement in quality of the winemaking processes; the increasing relevance of viticulture and winemaking in Italian agricultural production and export; and the emergence of wine as a cultural product.

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3031060970

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9783031060977

The Modern Portuguese Economy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

By: Luciano Amaral

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The Modern Portuguese Economy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

By: Luciano Amaral

This book offers insights into the behaviour of the Portuguese economy in relation to economic growth from the twentieth century to the present. How did the 1891-92 crisis and World Wars impact Portugal economically? How did the Portuguese economy behave during the 'Golden Age' of economic growth in postwar Europe? What have the effects of the European Monetary Union been? Amaral examines long-running trends in the development of the modern Portuguese economy in order to help us understand various growth phases of the modern period. This title is important reading for economic historians and economists researching economic growth, crises, stablisation and monetary unions.

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Springer

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3030245489

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Confluence Narratives

Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas

By: Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta

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Confluence Narratives

Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas

By: Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta

Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary novels calls attention to the impact of ethnicity on national identities in the Americas. These historical narratives portray the cultural encounters—the conflicts and alliances, peaceful borrowings and violent seizures—that have characterized the history of the American continents since the colonial period. In the second half of the twentieth century, North and South American readers have witnessed a steady output of novels that revisit moments of cultural confluence as a means of revising national histories. Confluence Narratives proposes that these historical novels, published in such places as Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, make up a key literary genre in the Americas. The genre links the various parts of the hemisphere together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Luciano Tosta demonstrates how numerous texts from the United States, Canada, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil fall into the genre. The book focuses on four case studies from ethnic groups in the Americas: Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Jewish Americans, and Japanese Americans. Tosta uses the experience of the American nations as a springboard to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation, an identity marked by border-crossings and other experiences of deterritorialization. Based on the exploration of “confluence narratives,” Tosta argues that the “contemporary” nation is not as contemporary as one may think. Informed by postcolonial theory and transnational and ethnic studies, this book offers an important comparative study for and of inter-American literature. Its analysis of the representation of cultural encounters within distinctive national histories underscores the complex nature of ‘otherness’ in the Americas, as well as the inherently transcultural aspect of a trans-continental American identity.

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315

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611487560

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9781611487565

Robust Range Image Registration

Using Genetic Algorithms and the Surface Interpenetration Measure

By: Luciano Afonso da Silva,Olga R. P. Bellon,Kim L. Boyer

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Robust Range Image Registration

Using Genetic Algorithms and the Surface Interpenetration Measure

By: Luciano Afonso da Silva,Olga R. P. Bellon,Kim L. Boyer

This book addresses the range image registration problem for automatic 3D model construction. The focus is on obtaining highly precise alignments between different view pairs of the same object to avoid 3D model distortions; in contrast to most prior work, the view pairs may exhibit relatively little overlap and need not be prealigned.

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174

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World Scientific

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9812563121

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9789812563125

3D/4D Printing of Bioadhesive Pharmaceutical Systems

Additive Manufacturing and Perspectives

By: Marcos Luciano Bruschi,Denise Tiemi Uchida,Mariana Carla de Oliveira

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3D/4D Printing of Bioadhesive Pharmaceutical Systems

Additive Manufacturing and Perspectives

By: Marcos Luciano Bruschi,Denise Tiemi Uchida,Mariana Carla de Oliveira

This book features a brief history of additive manufacturing and 3D/4D printing techniques, as well as the advantages, applications, and overall challenges facing the technology. It then focuses on the applications of bioadhesive systems for drug delivery. 3D/4D Printing of Bioadhesive Pharmaceutical Systems: Additive Manufacturing and Perspectives, explores recent discoveries of 3D printing in the development of pharmaceutical systems and drug delivery. Specifically, it discusses the main polymers/materials used in the development of bio-adhesive pharmaceutical systems and explains the importance of bio-adhesiveness of drug release through 3D printing. The authors also introduce the main strategies necessary to achieve a proper drug delivery system through 3D printing, and examine the adhesiveness of these systems on the skin as the mucosa decreases with the elimination of the drug by the body. Finally, the book brings all the necessary specifications to obtain a bioadhesive system with suitable bio-ink to obtain the best 3D/4D printing. This book is written with the objective of helping students start their studies in pharmaceutical engineering, bioengineering and additive manufacturing. Moreover, engineering professionals can use the book to improve the performance of 3D/4D printers for this type of system.

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CRC Press

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1040223338

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9781040223338

Complexity-Aware High Efficiency Video Coding

By: Guilherme Corrêa,Pedro Assunção,Luciano Agostini,Luis A. da Silva Cruz

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Complexity-Aware High Efficiency Video Coding

By: Guilherme Corrêa,Pedro Assunção,Luciano Agostini,Luis A. da Silva Cruz

This book discusses computational complexity of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoders with coverage extending from the analysis of HEVC compression efficiency and computational complexity to the reduction and scaling of its encoding complexity. After an introduction to the topic and a review of the state-of-the-art research in the field, the authors provide a detailed analysis of the HEVC encoding tools compression efficiency and computational complexity. Readers will benefit from a set of algorithms for scaling the computational complexity of HEVC encoders, all of which take advantage from the flexibility of the frame partitioning structures allowed by the standard. The authors also provide a set of early termination methods based on data mining and machine learning techniques, which are able to reduce the computational complexity required to find the best frame partitioning structures. The applicability of the proposed methods is finally exemplified with an encoding time control system that employs the best complexity reduction and scaling methods presented throughout the book. The methods presented in this book are especially useful in power-constrained, portable multimedia devices to reduce energy consumption and to extend battery life. They can also be applied to portable and non-portable multimedia devices operating in real time with limited computational resources.

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Springer

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3319257781

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Book's by Luciano Pereira da Silva

Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer with the SPH Method

Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer with the SPH Method

A History of Italian Wine

A History of Italian Wine

The Modern Portuguese Economy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Modern Portuguese Economy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Confluence Narratives

Confluence Narratives

Robust Range Image Registration

Robust Range Image Registration

3D/4D Printing of Bioadhesive Pharmaceutical Systems

3D/4D Printing of Bioadhesive Pharmaceutical Systems

Complexity-Aware High Efficiency Video Coding

Complexity-Aware High Efficiency Video Coding

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