Luíz Alberto Oliveira Rocha

Thermal Performance of a PCM Reservoir with Y-Shaped Fins for Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management

This work numerically investigates how Y-shaped metallic fins embedded in a phase change material (PCM) reservoir affect the thermal management of lithium-ion batteries. The constructal design method was applied to evaluate the effects of the number of fins and Y-shaped bifurcati...

A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Framework for Sequential Symmetry Breaking in Driven Complex Fluids

The spontaneous emergence of macroscopic order in driven, far-from-equilibrium complex fluids lacks a generalized framework capable of bridging continuous and discrete symmetry-breaking transitions. In this study, we propose a non-equilibrium phenomenological framework that synth...