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The birth of cracks is an important technological and scientific issue. Before a crack appearance, the deformation of a solid is smooth. When a crack is present, the deformation is rough (and discontinuous across crack faces). The project aims at designing a new theory in...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 179508
Last updated on: 2016-04-26
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - VISIONSPACE (Visionary Space Systems: Orbital Dynamics at Extremes of Spacecraft Length-Scale)
The growing utilisation of space as a platform for science, telecommunications, Earth observation and navigation is a direct result of the application of the tools of classical orbital dynamics. Our understanding of classical orbital dynamics can generate families of orbits...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 178926
Last updated on: 2016-03-16
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - INSYSBIO (Industrial Systems Biology of Yeast and A. oryzae)
There is an urgent need for replacing fossil-based production of chemicals with more sustainable production processes, and biobased production represents an attractive alternative. However, advancement in the field is hindered by the slow and expensive development of cell...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 179242
Last updated on: 2016-03-15
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - 2G-CSAFE (Combustion of Sustainable Alternative Fuels for Engines used in aeronautics and automotives)
The kinetics of oxidation of alcohols, methyl esters, ethyl esters, valerates, furanics, branched hydrocarbons, in relation to synthetic jet fuels, have been studied experimentally. Pollutants formation from the oxidation/combustion of biofuels and blends with conventional...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 197310
Last updated on: 2017-04-11
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - MICROCHEMICALIMAGING (Enhancing microfabricated devices with chemical imaging for novel chemical technology)
In this project we have been developing new approaches in chemical imaging by taking “chemical photographs” of materials and dynamic systems. To achieve this, we pioneered a number of approaches based on Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) FTIR spectroscopic imaging and the...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 179401
Last updated on: 2016-03-14
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - REALTIME (Real Time Computational Mechanics Techniques for Multi-Fluid Problems)
Real-time computational engineering systems are computer systems for solving problems that must produce their results within short time intervals similar to the physical time in which the problem occurs. Real-time systems are nowadays applied to flight control, patient...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 179380
Last updated on: 2016-03-14
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - MULTI-SCALE FLOWS (Multi-scale modeling of mass and heat transfer in dense gas-solid flows)
Multi-scale modeling of mass and heat transfer in dense gas-solid flowsDense gas-solid flows have been the subject of intense research over the past decades, owing to its wealth of scientifically interesting phenomena. Many processes in chemical industry and biotechnology make...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 179139
Last updated on: 2016-03-15
[REPORT SUMMARY] Mid-Term Report Summary - NEMO (Nearshore Monitoring and Modelling:
Inter-scale Coastal Behaviour)
The NeMo project aims to achieve progress in long term, large scale coastal change forecasting. The project is well on its way to achieve such progress, which is documented in our publications and transferred to our end-users. Although we were not certain at the moment of...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 179876
Last updated on: 2016-04-20
[REPORT SUMMARY] Mid-Term Report Summary - HECTOR (MICROWAVE-ASSISTED MICROREACTORS: DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHLY EFFICIENT GAS PHASE CONTACTOR WITH DIRECT CATALYST HEATING)
The aim of project HECTOR is the development of a new type of catalytic reactor in which energy is directly supplied to the catalyst using microwaves. To this end, a new reactor (and catalyst) design is needed to enable direct heating of the catalyst sites while maintaining...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 180605
Last updated on: 2016-04-15
[REPORT SUMMARY] Mid-Term Report Summary - SPDMETALS (Using Severe Plastic Deformation for the Processing of Bulk Nanostructured Metals)
The processing of bulk metals through the application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) provides an opportunity for achieving remarkable grain refinement which cannot be attained using any other procedures. Typically, metals processed by SPD have average grain sizes in the...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 180532
Last updated on: 2016-04-15
List retrieved on: 2017-07-28
