Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes

Department of Mathematics Research Group Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (DD) Bundesstr. 55 (Geomatikum) 20146 Hamburg email: marco.bernardes (at) uni-hamburg.de

August 2014 - January 2017
Capes-Humboldt-Fellowship for Senior Researchers
Project: Development of a Robust and Simple Mathematical and Computational Model for Solar Updraft Towers Analysis and Optimization

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ingenuin Gasser

Important publications

1. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, 2017. Preliminary stability analysis of the convective symmetric converging flow between two nearly parallel stationary disks similar to a Solar Updraft Power Plant collector. Sol. Energy 141, 297-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.11.042

2. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, Experimental Evidence of the Working Principle of Thermal Diodes Based on Thermal Stress and Thermal Contact Conductance - Thermal Semiconductors, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 73C, pp. 354- 357, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.02.016

3. Zhou, X., von Backström, T.W., Bernardes, M.A. dos S., 2013. Introduction to the Special Issue on Solar Chimneys. Solar Energy 98, Part A, 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2013.10.029

4. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, X. Zhou, Strategies for solar updraft tower power plants control subject to adverse solar radiance conditions, Solar Energy, Volume 98 - Part A, December 2013, Pages 34-41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2013.06.007

5. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, On the heat storage in Solar Updraft Tower collectors - Influence of soil thermal properties, Solar Energy, Volume 98 - Part A, December 2013, Pages 49-57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2013.07.014

6. X. Zhou, S. Yuan, M.A.d.S. Bernardes, Sloped-collector solar updraft tower power plant performance, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 66(0) (2013) 798-807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.07.060

7. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, Xinping Zhou, On the heat storage in Solar Updraft Tower collectors - Water bags, Solar Energy, Volume 91, May 2013, Pages 22-31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2012.11.025

8. Xinping Zhou, Marco A. dos S. Bernardes, Reccab M. Ochieng, Influence of atmospheric cross flow on solar updraft tower inflow, Energy, Volume 42, Issue 1, June 2012, Pages 393-400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2012.03.037.

9. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, Theodor W. von Backström, Evaluation of Operational Control Strategies Applicable to Solar Chimney Power Plants, Solar Energy, 84, (2), 277-288, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031

10. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, Theo W. von Backström. Analysis of Some Available Heat Transfer Coefficients Applicable to Solar Chimney Power Plant Collectors. Solar Energy. 83, 264-275, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2009.11.009

11. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes. Development of the initiative 'The LCA Software Award'. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, v. 14, p. 1, 2008. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-008-0018-8

12. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes; Alfred Voß, Gerhard Weinrebe, Thermal and Technical Analysis of Solar Chimneys, Solar Energy, v.75, n.6, p.511 - 524, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2003.09.012

13. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes, Ramón Molina Valle, Márcio Fonte-Boa Cortez, Numerical Analysis of natural laminar convection in a radial solar heater, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 38, N° 1, Elsevier, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0035-3159(99)80015-4