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  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Renato M. Cotta is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with a strong focus on mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and computational mechanics. Other notable subfields include water science and technology, as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics such as heat transfer and optimization, nanofluid flow and heat transfer, membrane separation technologies, and membrane-based ion separation techniques. Additional research interests include solar-powered water purification methods, heat transfer mechanisms, and heat and mass transfer in porous media.

Renato M. Cotta's recent publications reflect a diverse and interdisciplinary approach. Selected papers include:

  • Analysis of the membrane effects on the energy efficiency of water desalination in a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system with heat recovery (2020) in Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Mathematical Parameters of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Brazil and Evaluation of the Impact of Different Public Health Measures (2020) in Biology
  • Modelling the COVID-19 epidemics in Brasil: Parametric identification and public health measures influence (2020) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Integral transforms for flow and transport in discrete and continuum models of fractured heterogeneous porous media (2020) in Advances in Water Resources
  • Transient three-dimensional heat conduction in heterogeneous media: Integral transforms and single domain formulation (2020) in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

The venues where Renato M. Cotta has frequently published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • High Temperatures-High Pressures
  • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal
  • Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
  • International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Frequent collaborators in Renato M. Cotta's research projects have included Carolina P. Naveira-Cotta, Kleber Marques Lisbôa, João Nazareno Nonato Quaresma, Emanuel Negrão Macêdo, and Abdul Orlando Cárdenas Gómez.

Renato M. Cotta was recognized as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Integral Transforms in Computational Heat and Fluid Flow

    Renato Machado Cotta

  • Heat Conduction: Lumped Analysis, Integral Transforms, Symbolic Computation

    Renato Machado Cotta;M. D. Mikhaĭlov

  • Thermal measurements and inverse techniques

    Helcio R.B. Orlande;Olivier Fudym;Denis Maillet;Renato M. Cotta

  • HYBRID NUMERICAL/ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO NONLINEAR DIFFUSION PROBLEMS

    R. M. Cotta

  • Benchmark results in computational heat and fluid flow : the integral transform method

    Renato M. Cotta

  • Hybrid Methods and Symbolic Computations

    Renato M. Cotta;Mikhail D. Mikhailov

  • Laminar forced convection inside ducts with periodic variation of inlet temperature

    R.M. Cotta;M.N. Özişik

  • Handbook of thermal science and engineering

    F. A. Kulacki;S. Acharya;Y. Chudnovsky;R. M. Cotta

  • An inverse problem of parameter estimation for heat and mass transfer in capillary porous media

    L.B. Dantas;H.R.B. Orlande;R.M. Cotta

  • Near-source atmospheric pollutant dispersion using the new GILTT method

    D.M. Moreira;M.T. Vilhena;T. Tirabassi;D. Buske

  • Integral transform solutions of transient natural convection in enclosures with variable fluid properties

    M.A. Leal;H.A. Machado;R.M. Cotta

  • Eigenfunction expansions for transient diffusion in heterogeneous media

    Carolina P. Naveira-Cotta;Renato M. Cotta;Helcio R.B. Orlande;Olivier Fudym;Olivier Fudym

  • Improved One-Dimensional Fin Solutions

    J. B. Aparecido;R. M. Cotta

  • Transient conjugated forced convection in ducts with periodically varying inlet temperature

    R.M. Cotta;M.D. Mikhailov;M.N. Özişik

  • Thermally developing laminar flow inside rectangular ducts

    J.B. Aparecido;R.M. Cotta

  • The UNIT algorithm for solving one-dimensional convection-diffusion problems via integral transforms

    L.A. Sphaier;R.M. Cotta;C.P. Naveira-Cotta;J.N.N. Quaresma

  • Integral transform solution for the lid‐driven cavity flow problem in streamfunction‐only formulation

    J. S. Pérez Guerrero;R. M. Cotta

  • Benchmark integral transform results for flow over a backward-facing step

    J.S.Perez Guerrero;R.M. Cotta

  • Unified Integral Transforms Algorithm for Solving Multidimensional Nonlinear Convection-Diffusion Problems

    Renato M. Cotta;Diego C. Knupp;Carolina P. Naveira-Cotta;Leandro A. Sphaier

  • Laminar forced convection of power-law non-Newtonian fluids inside ducts

    R. M. Cotta;M. N. Özi§ik

  • Theoretical analysis of conjugated heat transfer with a single domain formulation and integral transforms

    Diego C. Knupp;Carolina P. Naveira-Cotta;Renato M. Cotta

Frequent Co-Authors

Sadik Kakac
Sadik Kakac TOBB University of Economics and Technology
M.N. Özişik
M.N. Özişik North Carolina State University
W. J. Minkowycz
W. J. Minkowycz University of Illinois at Chicago
Jari P. Kaipio
Jari P. Kaipio University of Auckland
Ville Kolehmainen
Ville Kolehmainen University of Eastern Finland
John R. Thome
John R. Thome École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Adrian Bejan
Adrian Bejan Duke University
Todd H. Skaggs
Todd H. Skaggs US Department of Agriculture
M. Th. van Genuchten
M. Th. van Genuchten Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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